Saechsicher Rauchermod – Potatoes with Curd

The Erzgebirge variant of a former poor person’s meal, as it is found in many regions of Germany. The potatoes make you full, and the curd gives the body fat and protein.

First you cook cooked, peeled potatoes: scrub the potatoes heartily under running water and make them in salt water until they offer no more resistance when you pierce them with a kitchen knife. Depending on the size of the potatoes, this will take 20-40 min Let the potatoes steam off and then peel them. Cooling. You can do this work the day before.

Grate the potatoes on a coarse grater into small wedges and knead them together with the curd cheese and caraway seeds. Season with salt. Grease a baking tray and evenly spread the mixture on it in coarse flakes. Bake in a heated oven at 180 °C (convection oven 160 °C ) for about half an hour. The potato mixture should be nicely browned on top.

Tips:

You can increase the mass of the edible curd used to double, to 500 g, according to taste.

As with all simple potato dishes, you can vary here as well. Replace the black cumin with cumin or curry powder. Add bacon cubes to the quantity. Only with fresh herbs you should hold back. They could burn in the dry temperature of the oven.

Our tip: Use a bacon with a strong G

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