Simple and quick French-style potatoes recipe
Simple and quick recipe for French fries or baked potato gratin.
Ingredients (4 large servings):
• 900 g small to medium potatoes, boiled in their skins and peeled
• 3-4 boiled eggs
• 75 g smoked meat of any kind, cut into small cubes. You can even mix several types of sausage.
• 150 g sweet liquid sour cream with 30% fat, slightly warmed
• 150-200 g grated cheese
• 1 raw egg
• 2 large cloves of garlic
• 2-3 sprigs of fresh thyme
• Salt
• And freshly ground black pepper
First, gather all the ingredients from the list.
Prepare a 19X19 cm baking tray and grease it with a thin layer of soft butter or another type of fat that we have on hand.
Take the potatoes and slice them. I recommend using an egg slicer. It will go much faster. If you have larger potatoes, cut them with a knife of course.
Form a consistent layer of potatoes at the bottom of the tray. Salt and pepper.
Then add about 50 g of grated cheese. It is not mandatory to use cheese. If you have leftovers of other cheeses left in the refrigerator, you can use them here.
Cut the boiled eggs also with the special slicer and form a new layer in the tray. You can use 3 or 4 pieces.
And over this layer we should put salt, but the next layer is the smoked one and I have a very salty smoked one here, so I will omit it. Depending on your sausage, you will decide whether to put salt or not.
Cover with another generous layer of potatoes. Salt and pepper.
In the slightly warmed sweet cream for cooking, add a raw egg and beat well to homogenize. I heated it for 30 seconds in the microwave. Be careful not to let it get too hot so as not to cook the egg prematurely.
Then add 2 cloves of garlic pressed through a press, very important for the taste, and fresh thyme leaves – just the leaves – about 2 teaspoons. Mix well, add a pinch of salt and pour over the potatoes.
Because my tray is small, only 4 servings, I will bake the French fries in the airfryer. I have had the 5.5 l Premium Cosori for a year and a half, and if you are thinking of getting an airfryer, I highly recommend it. It has an excellent quality-price ratio and super good reviews in all online stores.
If you don't know yet what benefits such a device brings, I'll quickly tell you a few: it reduces the amount of oil when frying by over 90%, we get rid of oil splashes on the stove, and compared to an electric oven, it cooks much faster without the need for preheating and we use less electricity.
So we put the tray in the basket of the appliance. I also use baking paper, just so you don't scratch the basket.
We set the temperature to 200 degrees Celsius and the time to 15-16 minutes. The basket starts cooking immediately. Without preheating and without waiting times.
At the end of the program, the sour cream with egg must be coagulated. If it seems that there is still liquid, give it another minute or two, even if the surface browns more, it's okay.
Then we spread the rest of the cheese on top and set another 3 or 4 minutes depending on how brown we want it to be.
If you want to double or triple this recipe, bake the potatoes in a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius, top and bottom heat, until the cream is coagulated and the surface is well browned. Then top with cheese just like in this airfryer version!
Let the French fries cool then portion and serve.
It is a very easy to make, tasty and filling dish. If you want, you can also make it in small individual shapes. Enjoy your meal.