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Nancy Radke's Potato Pie, American Style

Torta di Patate all'Americana

Mary Ann Esposito

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive, thinly sliced
1 pound all purpose potatoes, peeled, thinly sliced
4 ounces Parmigiano Reggiano, cut into slivers with a vegetable peeler
salt to taste
Grinding black pepper
Fresh grated nutmeg

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 425F

Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter and olive oil in a cast iron or other heavy duty oven proof pan.

Make an overlapping layer of all-purpose potatoes in the pan to fill in the pan completely. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

Scatter 1/5 of the cheese slivers over the potatoes.

Make a layer of sweet potato slices over the all-purpose potatoes going in the opposite direction. Season and scatter with cheese.

Continue making layers until all potatoes are used up. Pour remaining butter and olive oil over the top.

Cover pan tightly with foil and bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil and bake 25 minutes longer until potatoes are tender and browned at the edges.

Cut into wedges and serve.

item recipe is featured in Episode 1623 of Season 16.

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Comments

Jeanine

November 6, 2011 at 6:38am | Permalink

What is the quantity of sweet potato for this recipe?

JLM

November 6, 2011 at 9:12am | Permalink

Please confirm the ingredients for this recipe - it doesn't make any sense.

SS

November 6, 2011 at 9:51am | Permalink

no sweet potatoes in ingredients list.

Peggy

November 6, 2011 at 10:10am | Permalink

The amount of sweet potatoes is the same as white potatoes, 1 pound. It says so in the video.Hope this helps.

Elaine

November 6, 2011 at 1:29pm | Permalink

This recipe has a rather serious error! It has left out the sweet potatoes completely, even tho it refers to them in the directions, and instead, refers to "2 tablespoons extra virgin olive, thinly sliced". I expect one could guess about the sweet potatoes, but such an error makes me worried what ELSE might be left out!

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Jeanine

November 6, 2011 at 6:38am | Permalink

What is the quantity of sweet potato for this recipe?
JLM

November 6, 2011 at 9:12am | Permalink

Please confirm the ingredients for this recipe - it doesn't make any sense.
SS

November 6, 2011 at 9:51am | Permalink

no sweet potatoes in ingredients list.
Peggy

November 6, 2011 at 10:10am | Permalink

The amount of sweet potatoes is the same as white potatoes, 1 pound. It says so in the video.Hope this helps.
Elaine

November 6, 2011 at 1:29pm | Permalink

This recipe has a rather serious error! It has left out the sweet potatoes completely, even tho it refers to them in the directions, and instead, refers to "2 tablespoons extra virgin olive, thinly sliced". I expect one could guess about the sweet potatoes, but such an error makes me worried what ELSE might be left out!