How to Prepare Appetizing Potato and leek bake with a bacon crumb

Potato and leek bake with a bacon crumb.

You can cook Potato and leek bake with a bacon crumb using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Potato and leek bake with a bacon crumb

1. It’s 2 of good sized potatoes.
2. You need 1 of leek.
3. Prepare 50 g of chopped smoked scamorza cheese – optional, my Italian twist.
4. Prepare of Enough hot stock to cover the potatoes.
5. Prepare 1 slice of bread.
6. It’s of Few rashers of streaky bacon.
7. You need of Salt to taste.
8. Prepare Knob of butter.

Potato and leek bake with a bacon crumb step by step

1. Preheat oven to 200. Chop leek. Peel and slice potatoes thinly. Heat butter in a pan and soften the leeks.
2. In a small rectangular tray, layer up potatoes, leeks and cheese. Season each layer.
3. When you have finished all ingredients, add stock, just enough to cover the potatoes. Pop in the oven for about 40 mins. Meanwhile, in the same pan as you cooked the leeks, add some chopped bacon. Fry until crisp, then break up the bread and add to the bacon.
4. Cook for a few minutes until browned, set a side. After 40 mins, test the potatoes with a cocktail stick, they should be soft. Now add the bacon crumb on top and pop back in the oven for another 10 mins. Leave to rest for 10 mins before serving.