Cheese and Bacon Potato Cakes

by Leah Halmagyi

Ingredients

  • 2 rashers bacon, finely diced
  • 1 brown onion, finely diced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 100g unsalted butter, melted
  • 4 large starchy potatoes*
  • ½ bunch thyme, chopped
  • ½ cup finely-grated Parmesan
  • sea salt flakes and freshly-milled black pepper
  • rocket salad, to serve

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 180°C. Fry the bacon, onion and garlic in 1 Tbsp butter in a pan over a low heat for 5 minutes, until lightly-browned. Peel the potatoes and cut into fine batons on a mandoline slicer.
2 Combine the onion mixture, potatoes, remaining butter, thyme and Parmesan in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Press into ½ cup muffin moulds then bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden. Serve with rocket salad.