Potato Soup With Gravlax Rosettes Food

POTATO SOUP WITH GRAVLAX ROSETTES

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat, and cook and stir the potatoes and onion until the onion starts to become translucent, about 3 minutes. Raise heat to medium, pour in the vegetable broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and cook until the potatoes are tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Pour the mixture into a large bowl, and puree through a food mill back into the saucepan. (Discard any fibrous vegetables left in the food mill.)
• Bring the pureed soup back to a simmer over medium-low heat, and whisk in 6 tablespoons of mascarpone. Season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice to taste.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C), and warm 4 oven-safe soup plates for about 5 minutes.
• Roll a slice of smoked salmon loosely into a rose shape, pinching the roll at the bottom and fanning the roll out at the top. Place a rosette of salmon into the bottom of each warmed soup plate, gently pour the soup over the rosette, and drizzle each bowl with about 1/2 tablespoon of mascarpone cheese. Sprinkle with chives, and serve.

POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Peel, cube, boil, drain and "mush" potatoes to the consistency you like (I like them lumpy, but my kids like smaller pieces).
• In separate pan, melt butter, add flour and cook while stirring for about a minute or so.
• Add half the milk and stir until lumps are out of flour mixture.
• Add remaining milk and on med-high heat, heat to a boil.
• Stir almost constantly or it will scorch.
• After boiling, turn heat off and add remaining ingredients.

POTATO PANCAKES WITH GRAVLAX AND DILL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place grated onion in a fine sieve, and press out as much moisture as possible. Combine onion, potatoes, chopped dill, salt, pepper, and egg white in a medium bowl, and stir to combine.
• Coat two baking sheets with olive-oil cooking spray. Form pancakes by dropping about 1 tablespoon mixture on tray for each and flattening into disks. Bake until golden brown on bottom, about 10 minutes, rotating trays once during cooking. Remove from oven, and turn pancakes over. Return to oven, and bake until brown on both sides, about 7 minutes more.
• Serve pancakes topped with gravlax and a dab of reduced-fat sour cream. Garnish with dill sprigs.

POTATO SOUP

Steps:

• Place first 9 ingredients in a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low 5-6 hours or until potatoes are tender., Mix flour and 1/2 cup cream until smooth; stir into soup. Stir in 3/4 cup cheese and the bacon, cilantro and remaining cream. Cook, covered, on low until slightly thickened, about 30 minutes. Serve with remaining cheese.

POTATO ROSETTES

Steps:

• Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water; bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender; drain. Transfer to a large bowl; mash potatoes. Beat in the cheese, egg, onion, sour cream, salt and pepper., Cut a hole in the corner of a pastry bag or heavy-duty plastic bag. Insert large star tip #409. Fill bag with potato mixture. Pipe potatoes into eight mounds on a greased baking sheet. Cover and freeze for up to 1 month., To use frozen potatoes: Place on a microwave-safe plate. Cover with waxed paper; microwave on high for 6 minutes or until heated through. ,

CRISPY POTATO ROSETTE

Steps:

• Peel the potatoes. Slice them very thinly.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a non-stick pan (a stainless steel pan will do, too).
• Lay half of the potatoes in a spiral form in the pan, so that they overlap each other, like the petals of a rose. Make sure that the middle of the spiral is closed. Cook at medium heat for about 8-10 minutes. Do not stir them around. The starch of the potatoes should keep them together. Also check the edges of the potatoes. They shouldn't get brown to fast. (Adjust heat accordingly).
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• While the potatoes are browning, slice the ham and the cheese into 1 inch strips.
• First layer half of the cheese strips across the top of the potato rosette, then layer the ham. Finish off by topping the ham with the rest of the cheese. (The grandmotherly cook said, "the cheese acts as glue and helps hold the rosette together).
• Cover the potato rosette with the other half of the potatoes.
• Next, take a flat plate that fits into the pan, place it over the potato rosette so that the bottom of the plate is facing upwards, carefully turn the pan over, holding plate and pan, so that the potato rosette is now on the right side of the plate. (It sounds complicated, but is easy). Be careful and protect your hands with oven mitts, as some hot oil could spill out.
• The rosette should still be intact. Using a spatula, carefully slide the potato rosette back into the pan.
• Brown another 10 minutes or until the potatoes are done.
• Serve hot with a side of green salad.

POTATO ROSETTES

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F.
• Peel potatoes, then cut crosswise into 1/16-inch-thick slices with an adjustable-blade slicer and toss with oil.
• Oil a large baking sheet. Overlap 8 to 10 slices (use larger ones) in 1 corner of baking sheet to form a 5-inch rosette, then cover center of rosette with another potato slice. Make 5 more rosettes in same manner. Season with salt and pepper.
• Bake until well browned around edges, about 20 minutes. Immediately loosen from baking sheet with a thin metal spatula and flip over so browned bottom sides are on top.