Homemade Faroese Dish – Hassel bakaði eplir
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009During our stay on the Faroe Islands, my friend Mariann prepared a homemade Faroese potato dish called Hassel bakaði eplir. She believes it is originally a Danish recipe with the name Hasselback-kartofler.
Down here in Germany we basically live on potatoes, so this dish makes a nice variation to the many other regular potato dishes we already now…
Ingredients:
* potatoes
* paprika seasoning
Instructions:
*Preheat oven to 170C°
*Peel potatoes and cut them – like a grid - but don’t cut all the way through the potato, so the potato bottom still stays together.
*Add some liquid butter or oil with a brush and season with paprika powder.
*Put in the oven for 45 min. at 170 C.°
Tip: Take only big potatoes as their unfolding weight will keep them open and this helps to bake them evenly.
Hassel bakaði eplir or French fries, the old-fashioned way
They can be served with meat and gravy and they are more pleasing to the eye than regular cooked potatoes!
