When I was booking a dinner reservation with a customer at Phoenix, I gave him a few options that I found on OpenTable. He picked “The Stockyards” and said it’s his favorite around that area. It was my first trip to Phoenix, so I had no idea about which restaurant is good. I later found out that the customer is greatly enthusiastic about its cooking. You could imagine “The Stockyards” is definitely a good restaurant. Everything I ordered was good including the Parmesan Potatoes-the side dish.
Like I said before, I don’t cook much potato dishes due to its high GI value. However, the taste from that Parmesan Potatoes was so good that I decided to try something similar. Instead of using just parmesan cheese and potatoes, I added some ham. The finished dish could be served as both a side dish ( see below) or brunch.
Potato Cheese Pie 土豆芝士派
Equipment
- Frying pan
- Small baking dish
Ingredients
- 1 pound large golden potato
- 4 oz ham
- 3-4 oz grated cheese
- 4 oz sliced mozzarella cheese (4 pieces)
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Wash and peel the potatoes. Cut them into 1/8-1/4" thick slices
- Place the potato slices into the baking dish, and sprinkle ground pepper and olive oil. Mix with a hand
- Add oil to the frying pan, and sautee the ham at medium heat until semi crispy
- Cut the ham into 1/2" pieces. Pour the seasoned potato slices onto the cutting board
- Place potato slices at the bottom of the baking dish. Top it with sliced mozzarella sheet
- Sprinkle ham pieces on top of the cheese. Repeat the process until you run out of potatoes. Sprinkle grated cheese on top
- Whisk the egg with some milk. Pour the egg liquid into the baking dish
- Set the oven to 350F. Bake for 45-55mins. (I covered the baking dish with an aluminium foil for about 20 mins). Around 40 mins, poke the potato with a fork, if there is no resistance, the potatoes are cooked
- If the cheese surface is not golden enough, broil at low to medium setting for 1-3 mins
- Take the dish out of oven, and let it rest for 5-7 mins
- Cut and serve
Video
Notes
- This is my first try. I didn't have much experience with the recipe. I only had three layers of potato slices. I think this is too thin.
- I covered the baking dish with an aluminum foil for half of the baking time. It turned out the potato was sort of wet.
- You can replace ham with bacon or even salmon, or canned tuna. However, you would need to season the salmon or tuna with some salt.
- You could include some minced onion when sauteeing the ham.
- You could also sprinkle minced parsley on top of one of the layers.
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