Original and particularly delicate on the palate, the potato in a salt crust is a real delight.
Thanks to this cooking method, you keep the vitamins and minerals of this delicious Noirmoutier potato.
Ingredients for 4 persons :
- 1 kg of potatoes of Noirmoutier (granules)
- 200 g of coarse gray salt
- 1 egg
- 250g of flour
- 10 cl of water
- 6 to 8 sprigs of rosemary
- 40 g semi-salted butter
Noirmoutier potatoes in a salt crust
Preheat the oven to 210 ° C (th.7).
> In a salad bowl, place the flour, coarse salt, the leafed rosemary, add the water and the egg white. Mix well.
> Brush and wash the skin of the potatoes, wrap them in salt dough.
> Place on a baking sheet. Bake and cook for 40 minutes.
> Break the salt crust with a knife, remove the potatoes.
> Sprinkle with pat of butter.
Enjoy!
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You can accompany these Noirmoutier potatoes with slices of smoked duck breasts.
Salt crust cooking This cooking method offers not only a visual spectacle but also a quality of cooking. You will find all the benefits of stewing cooking but in a natural material, in this case coarse gray salt, rich in trace elements.
The salt crust insulates and protects food like a shell, concentrating the aromas and cooking, so to speak, with steam.
Well-being and potato
The potato is a starch, rich in complex carbohydrates (starch), it indeed manages to stall the most ferocious appetites
with a serving of only 200 g.
Is it necessary to specify that this contribution depends on the chosen cooking method: in a deep fryer, it doubles… In all cases, note that an early potato is richer in vitamins and minerals, and that a steam cooking allows to preserve as much as possible its nutritional advantages. Without forgetting the taste pleasure, if the potato is accompanied by a knob of butter.
- Health: benefits and virtues of potatoes
Recipe: T. Debéthune, Photo: C. Herlédan
