French
Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese)
Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb small waxy potatoes
- 10 oz Munster cheese, sliced
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1/2 tsp caraway seeds
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Boil the whole potatoes in salted water until fork-tender, about 20 minutes, then drain.
- Preheat the broiler, halve the warm potatoes, and arrange them cut side up in a baking dish, dotting them with the butter.
- Lay the Munster slices over the potatoes.
- Broil for 3 to 4 minutes, until the cheese is fully melted and lightly browned in spots.
- Scatter the caraway seeds, salt, and black pepper over the top and serve right away while the cheese is molten.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Dairy and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Munster et Pommes de Terre (Potatoes with Melted Munster Cheese) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on potato and cheese.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from eastern France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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