Baked Pesto Potato Rounds with home made sour cream

Do not let the picture fool you. The image is not great but the taste is over the top. Cutting the potatoes into perfect wedges takes time. So I just sliced them round to make the job easy. Round or wedge, either way the taste is the same. Baked potatoes with pesto - what is not to like in it. Hung curd flavored with garlic and pepper makes a wonderful dip. Without much ado the recipe follows.



Recipe for Pesto Potatoes
2 medium servinggs

Ingredients for the Potato rounds
  • 4 medium sized potatoes washed and scrubbed
  • 2 tsp pesto (grind together 1 cup fresh basil, 2 cloves of garlic, little sea salt and 1tsp olive oil) Pesto can be skipped too or replaced with  Italian seasoning mix.
  • salt to taste
  • 2 pinches of pepper powder
  • 2 tsps olive oil or any other oil

Directions
  • Slice the potatoes into thick rounds. 
  • Toss together the sliced potatoes, pesto, salt, pepper and olive oil. Marinate for an hour.
  • Bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
  • Turn them around and grill the tops for a nice brown crust for about 5 minutes at the same. temperature. Oven temperatures vary, so please check them and cook more or less.

Ingredients for the sour cream/hung curd
  • 2 cups yogurt or curd. 
  • 1 strainer
  • salt to taste
  • 1 garlic clove grated - Optional
  • 1 tsp olive oil or any other oil
  • 1 pinch of black pepper powder

Directions
  • Line a strainer with muslin cloth and empty the yogurt into it.
  • Keep a dish underneath to catch the whey.
  • Leave the curd in the fridge overnight or for 10 hours for it to thicken.
  • Mix in the grated garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper powder.

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