Potatoes baked in a baking sheet

Potatoes 1 Kg
3 spoonfuls flour
1/4 milk
Tuma cheese 250 Gr. (typical kind of cheese)
Pecorino cheese 250 Gr.
2 spoonfuls extra virgin olive oil
1/2 hectogram butter

Peel and horizontally slice the potatoes.

Pour 3 spoonfuls flour in a bowl, 1/4 milk and the minced Tuma cheese (250 Gr.), the Pecorino cheese, a little sliced onion, two spoonfuls oil.

Mix the ingredients and add the sliced potatoes: mixed everything carefully.

Oil the baking sheet, pour the mixture in it, smooth it and sprinkle with grated Pecorino cheese and the chopped butter.

Let it cook for 1 hour and cover the baking sheet.

This is a typical dish belonging to the rural traditions and you can cook it according to many different recipes. The most important of all is that recipe envisaging 12 ingredients more than the potatoes only, i.e.: parsley, thyme, pepper herb, garlic, onion, rosemary, 1 glass of milk, 1 entire tuma cheese, a little oil, a little butter, salt and pepper.

This recipe comes from Valle Argentina – Imperia

This is one of the most tasty specialities of this area.

Sandro Oddo says: "Cook the potatoes on the embers by using an iron rounded baking sheet ('a foglia), which you put on the trivet (trempei) and cover with a lid (testu). This is going to be an excellent and very tasty dish and if you really want to enjoy it, eat the potatoes by leaving them in the baking sheet. Grab your forks and BUON APPETTITO!!!"