Classic Pommes Anna - Simple French Gratin Potato Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 kg waxy potato, peeled and very thinly sliced
• 225 g butter, melted
• salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat the oven to 200°c/gas 6.
• 2 put the potato slices in a colander and rinse under running water to get rid of the starch. place on a cloth in a single layer and pat dry.
• 3 generously grease the base of an ovenproof pan or baking dish with melted butter.
• 4 arrange the potato slices in the pan in overlapping circles , brushing butter over each layer and seasoning as you go.
• 5 cover with greaseproof paper or a lid. bake in the oven for 45minutes or up to 1 hour. test with a skewer to see if the potatoes are done.
• 6 cooks notes:.
• 7 cook this in a cast-iron, heavy-bottomed, stubby-handled frying pan that goes in the oven. traditionally it should be lidded - mine isn't, so i use greaseproof paper.
• 8 historical note:.
• 9 mrs. landemare's original recipe is:.
• 10 potatoes. fresh butter.
• 11 peel some potatoes and cut into very thin rounds the size of a florin. wash in salted water and dry very well in a cloth. well butter an omelette pan. place a layer of potatoes on the bottom. cover with oiled [melted] butter, pepper and salt. repeat these layers until the pan is full and cook in a medium [350°f] over until brown [40-60 min.] remove from the oven, turn out and cut into slices or serve whole in a dish.