Cheese, Tomato and Potato Bake Recipe

Submitted by Jenny

For 4 healthy appetites you will need:

Ingredients:

  • 4lbs potatoes (at least!)
  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes
  • 2 onions, sliced thinly
  • Approx 4oz strong Cheddar (or more if you love cheesy flavours)
  • Oil (olive is nicest but anything will do)
  • Salt

Method:

  1. Slice the potatoes quite thinly (no need to peel them, and healthier if you don’t), put a layer in the bottom of a large casserole and sprinkle with salt.
  2. Follow with a layer of sliced onion, then a good sprinkle ofgrated cheese, then half a tin of chopped tomatoes. Repeat the layers until all your ingredients are used up.
  3. Drizzle oil over the top and sprinkle with grated cheese.  Cover and cook in the oven (if it’s on for something else) or the microwave until it’s cooked through – the potatoes should be really soft with no hard bits left.
  4. If you want a crunchy top take the lid off towards the end or bung it under the grill for a bit.

This can be varied according to taste – an extra tin of tomatoes to make it ‘wetter’, more or less cheese etc.  I’ve also heard of people adding layers of bolognese, corned beef, fish and different vegetables

We have sausages or something with this basic version if we happen to have them, but it’s not really necessary as it’s tasty enough to be eaten on its own.

When my children were babies I didn’t want to get them used to overpriced chemical baby foods and they were weaned on a less rich, salt-free version of this blended with milk. They loved it then and still love it now they are grown up.

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