Hasselback potatoes with pesto
Ingredients
for 4 person
| 800 g | potatoes |
| ½ tsp | salt |
| a little | pepper |
| 50 g | butter, cut into small pieces |
| 250 g | carrots, cut lengthways into six pieces |
| 1 tsp | sugar |
| 1 tbsp | butter |
| ¼ tsp | salt |
| 100 g | almonds |
| 180 g | basil pesto |
| 90 g | green olives, roughly chopped |
| 100 g | crème fraîche |
How it's done
Hasselback potatoes
Place the potatoes on a tablespoon one at a time, carefully cut thin slices into the potatoes but do not cut all the way through. Place the potatoes on a baking tray lined with baking paper, season. Spread the butter over the top.
Bake
Approx. 30 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 220°C. Combines the carrots, sugar and butter, season with salt, add to the potatoes, bake for another 20 mins. or so.
Pesto
Without adding any oil, toast the almonds in a frying pan until golden brown, chop roughly. Mix the pesto, olives and almonds. Scatter over the potatoes and carrots. Spread with crème fraîche.
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