Comfort foods are normally reserved for those that you eat in the long winter nights. Not so, this recipe from my Hungarian holiday.
Serves 8 | 1 hour 25 minutes | 15 minutes preparation
2 lbs potatoes
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoons oil
1 cup sour cream
1½ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 eggs, boiled and sliced
2 tablespoons dry breadcrumbs (or matzah meal)
Hungarian paprika
1. Do not peel or slice the potatoes.
2. You will be cooking them whole.
3. Heat salted water (½ teaspoons salt to 1 cup water) to boiling.
4. Add potatoes.
5. Heat to boiling.
6. Reduce heat.
7. Cover and cook until tender.
8. Test with a fork or a knife for tenderness.
9. Drain and cool slightly.
10. Cook onion in oil until tender.
11. Mix onion, oil, sour cream, salt and pepper.
12. Peel potatoes and cut into ¼ inch slices.
13. Gently mix potatoes and sour cream mixture.
14. Arrange half the potatoes in greased 10 x 6 x 1½ inch baking dish or 1½ quart casserole.
15. Arrange eggs on top and add remaining potatoes.
16. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and paprika.
17. Bake, uncovered, at 325°F until light brown, 30-40 minutes.
18. Garnish with snipped parsley if desired.
YUM!
what are those funny round green things, bigger than the peas?
It was. You should try making it for yourself…
Those “funny round green things” are Broad Beans, and they are DELICIOUS! I don’t think you have them in the US (my aunt might have smuggled a packet back on one occasion). They are the perfect accompaniment to peas, they are also really easy to grow. A favourite activity in Primary School is to roll up some sheets of newspaper, wet it, and stick it into a transparent plastic cup, and put a seed down between the paper and the cup. You then watch it germinate and grow… ^__^
Looks tasty! I think it would be nice with something bacony maybe?
That looks really good. Too bad it has sour cream in it :/
Mmmm…simple food. Yum! It sounds a good one.