Creamy potato bake with chorizo and bacon
I love a good potato bake! It’s such a great side dish to a BBQ or any number of main meals. Think of this as the loaded potato bake of your dreams – the chorizo and bacon gives it so much flavour and that creamy cheesy sauce surrounding it is to die for! If your budget is a little tight you replace the chorizo with more bacon, but personally I find it a worthy expense for the taste it delivers.
Serves: Six
Ingredients:
- 850g small washed potatoes, skin on
- 1 small brown onion, thinly sliced
- 100g diced bacon
- 100g chorizo sausage, diced
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 2 cups cooking cream
- 1 1/2 cups grated tasty cheese
- Sprinkle of paprika
Method:
- Spray the slow cooker bowl lightly with oil.
- Re-wash your potatoes to ensure they are nice and clean, then slice them thinly – if you cut them thick you will need to increase the cooking time to ensure they are tender.
- Lay half the sliced potatoes into the slow cooker.
- Add the onion, bacon and chorizo.
- Cover with the remaining potatoes.
- Add the garlic and pepper to the cream and mix well.
- Pour over the potatoes.
- Cover, putting a tea towel (dish towel) under the lid, and cook on high for two hours.
- Reduce the heat to a low setting and cook for 2 hours.
- Scatter the cheese over the potato and sprinkle with paprika.
- Replace the lid and tea towel and cook for a further 30 minutes, so the cheese can melt.
- Serve straight from slow cooker.
Note: Cooking cream is less likely to split during cooking than regular cream. If you have the AUTO function, use that and cook for 4 1/2 hours. I use the paprika on top as it gives the look of browning – but you can finish it in the oven if you prefer.
Written by Paulene Christie,slow-cooking internet sensation and busy working mum with a passion for sharing new and exciting recipes for the slow cooker.
This recipe appears as part Slow Cooker Central Super Savers, a collection of budget-friendly recipes for all occasions published by ABC Books.