German
Kartoffelauflauf mit Speck (Potato and Bacon Bake)
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Kartoffelauflauf mit Speck (Potato and Bacon Bake) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Preheat the oven to 375 F and butter a baking dish.
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Cook the diced bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 5 minutes, then add the onion and cook until softened, about 4 minutes more.
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Layer half the sliced potatoes in the baking dish, scatter half the bacon and onion over them, and repeat with the remaining potatoes, bacon, and onion.
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Whisk together the cream, milk, nutmeg, salt, and pepper, and pour it evenly over the layered potatoes.
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Scatter the cheese over the top and cover the dish with foil.
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Bake covered for 25 minutes, then uncover and bake for 15 minutes more, until the potatoes are tender and the top is golden.
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Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kartoffelauflauf mit Speck (Potato and Bacon Bake), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kartoffelauflauf mit Speck (Potato and Bacon Bake) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 600 kcal
- Protein
- 17 g
- Carbs
- 43 g
- Fat
- 40 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 1120 mg
- Saturated fat
- 21 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kartoffelauflauf mit Speck (Potato and Bacon Bake) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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