Oven-baked rösti cake

Oven-baked rösti cake

Grate potatoes into a hash brown-style patty and cook in the oven for a convenient and tasty side dish

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6 - 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 1 hr 25 mins

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Dry-fry the bacon in a pan for 5 mins until crisp, then chop into small pieces. Boil the whole potatoes for 5 mins, drain, then place in a bowl of chilled water.
  2. When cool enough to handle, pat the potatoes dry and roughly grate into a large bowl. Toss with the oil as you go, to stop them from sticking. Roughly grate the onion and squeeze out any excess juice, then stir into the potatoes along with the bacon.
  3. Place a baking sheet in the oven for 5 mins to warm through. Liberally grease a 23cm loose-bottomed cake tin with butter. Scatter the potato over the tin, trying not to pack it down, then dot all over the top with butter. Place on the hot baking sheet and bake in the oven for 1 hr 20 mins until the potatoes are cooked through and crisp on top.
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Emma says...

Crispy, rich röstis are a real treat, but it's time-consuming to fry them on the stove. This version lets you cook a whole rösti cake in the oven along with the rest of your meal.

Per serving

352 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 44g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 3g, sugar 2g, salt 0.6 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2009.

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  • 03 December 2009

    Debs Dishes commented on this recipe

    This was a complete disaster! I followed the receipe to the letter but it took almost another 40 minutes to 'cook' and when I turned it out the whole things fell apart as it was not solid in the middle - I ended up throwing it away. Really disappointing!

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  • 08 December 2010

    Ballyangel commented on this recipe

    I'm glad I'm not the only one that this recipe failed for. I had torn this out ages ago and found it the other day and decided to give it a try. I knew it was unlikely to work but figured that since it had been tested it should be ok. I followed the recipe and put the rosti in the oven. I might as well have left it on the kitchen windowsill for an hour it would have had the same effect. I ended up breaking it up and frying it in a pan, which was what I was trying to avoid and could have done right from the start, saving myself a lot of stress. Not impressed.

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  • 04 February 2011

    KEEN COOK rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is a really delicious way of eating potatoes. I have to say though that it is a real labour of love - very time consuming grating the potatoes, but the effort was well worth it! EVERYONE LOVED IT!! I did hoever, add a little more bacon.

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  • 10 January 2012

    Alf Unlucky rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Like other correspondents I too found it took longer than anticipated to cook properly but I have to say the extra time was well worth the end result. Everybody enjoyed it and we ate the leftovers the day after. A couple of changes I will be making next time is to add more onions and perhaps more importantly press the mixture down more onto a baking tray like small flat onion bhajis - this is what I did with the extra ingredients last time and they were wonderful and crisp

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  • 30 June 2012

    whats4t rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I agree with comments about thickness of the cake and cooking time. I have spread mixture more thinly straight onto preheated baking tray to get a crispy rosti after all isn`t that what a rosti is supposed to be like? Works beautifully, still easier than frying individual cakes as the large one can be portioned to serve.

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  • 16 September 2012

    Sailingrachel239 rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fantastic, dead easy, didn't fall apart like some rosti do, delicious!

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  • 22 September 2012

    Paul Richards rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Simple and tasty everyone enjoyed it, my only problem was that it stuck to the backing sheet despite having a considerable amount of butter on it, due mainly to the starchiness of the potatoes I think. I made one big cake, next time I will make smaller individual portions.

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  • 28 December 2012

    Lisa rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This is brilliant. Maybe not as light and crisp as the ones we had in Switzerland, which inspired the experiment, but the fact that it can sit next to the roast and doesn't require any spitting frying pans is a real bonus. Leftovers with brunch the next day were even better. I like the idea of baking individual ones in cupcake or yorkshire tins as it did fall apart a bit when cut.

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6 - 8

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 25 mins

Cook time

Cook 1 hr 25 mins

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352 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 44g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 6g, fibre 3g, sugar 2g, salt 0.6 g

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