French

Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese)

Name: Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 lb small waxy potatoes; 10 oz Munster cheese, sliced; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 tsp caraway seeds; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Colette @colette_lyon

Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. 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.

20 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Halal Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb small waxy potatoes
10 oz Munster cheese, sliced
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp caraway seeds
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Boil the whole potatoes in salted water until fork-tender, about 20 minutes, then drain.
Preheat the broiler, halve the warm potatoes, and arrange them cut side up in a baking dish, dotting them with the butter.
Lay the Munster slices over the potatoes.
Broil for 3 to 4 minutes, until the cheese is fully melted and lightly browned in spots.
Scatter the caraway seeds, salt, and black pepper over the top and serve right away while the cheese is molten.

Watch how to cook Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Aubergines au Four (Roasted Aubergine with Thyme and Garlic)
  
  40 min
Something cool and fresh
- Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette)
  
  15 min

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. Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
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: 480 kcal
Protein: 22 g
Carbs: 39 g
Fat: 26 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 740 mg
Saturated fat: 16 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.