When I was little, I hated potatoes. And yet my family, my grandma in particular, cooked potatoes with almost every meal. Boiled potatoes preferably. What I didn’t know back then was that there are different varieties of potato and that I simply didn’t like the floury ones we always had. At least not as boiled potatoes. Today it looks quite different. I love potatoes, but the waxy ones most of all. But I’ve grown fond of the floury ones too, in bakes or in rösti. Like this big potato rösti in the Dutch oven. Topped with melted cheese! Can it get any better?
Ingredients for the potato rösti in the Dutch oven, for 2 people
- 1 kg floury potatoes
- 150 g mascarpone
- 4 eggs
- 1 chorizo sausage
- fresh parsley
- nutmeg or herb salt and pepper
- grated cheddar or gouda
- IMPORTANT: you need a grater!
- baking paper, works without it too. But it’s easier this way.
Ingredients potato rösti in the Dutch ovenLet enough briquettes glow through that you can lay a ring around the outside of the top of the Dutch oven and have 3, max 4 briquettes underneath. Since this recipe isn’t very moist, it burns quickly if you give it too much heat from below.
Peel the potatoes and grate them into a bowl. Mix with the mascarpone, the eggs and the spices. Briefly fry the chorizo. For that it’s best to put all the briquettes under the Dutch oven so it gets nice and hot. Take it out and carefully put the baking paper into the Dutch oven. Put the ring of coals on the lid of the Dutch oven and leave 3 to 4 coals for underneath.
Note: in our supermarket the chorizo comes in two different types, one the dried sausage in a ring and one fresh chorizo for frying from the chilled section. Both work quite well for the recipe. I used the dried, or rather smoked, one.
Now mix the chorizo with the potato-egg-mascarpone mixture and put it on the baking paper in the Dutch oven. The whole thing needs to bake for about an hour. About half an hour before the end of cooking you can add the grated cheese on top of the potato rösti in the Dutch oven.
We used a Petromax fire pot 4.5 and an Atago. -> Sneaky advertising: you can get all of this in our shop too!