Crackling potato cake

Posh budget recipe for 6 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has maris piper potatoes, butter and pork skin.

Crackling potato cake

Crackling potato cake

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Posh budget
Servings

6

servings
Prep time

20 mins

Ingredients

  • Butter: 50g butter, melted
  • Pork Skin: pork skin (from the pork belly, see recipe in 'Goes well with', right)
  • Maris Piper Potatoes: 1.2kg Maris Piper potatoes

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 8. Cut a circle of baking parchment to fit the base of a 20-23cm ovenproof frying pan. Using a mandolin or sharp knife, slice the potatoes as thinly as possible. Pour a little of the butter over the parchment on the base and neatly overlap slices of the potato on the first layer. Then pile on one-third of the remaining potatoes, season, drizzle with a little butter and repeat until all the potatoes are used.
  2. Put the pork skin, skin-side up, on top of the potatoes and roast everything for 1 hr 30 mins until the crackling is crispy and the potatoes are really crisp and golden. Set the crackling aside, turn the potatoes out onto a tray or board and serve the crackling on top.