Grandma's Potato Dish

Ingredients:
500 grams potatoes, salt, 6 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter, 2 slices ham, 2 tsp chives (finely chopped), 2 teaspoon parsley (chopped) 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 ¼ dl sour cream, pepper, 2 tablespoon grated cheese.

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Peel the potatoes and boil them in water with a little bit of salt almost done. Let them cool and cut them into thin slices no. Boil the eggs hard in 10 minutes, rinse with cold water, peel and chop finely. Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the potato slices on both sides until golden brown. Grease an ovenproof dish and lay the potato slices in it. Cut the ham into strips. Mix the chopped eggs, chives, parsley, mustard and ham by the sour cream. Stir in a little salt and pepper and divide the mixture evenly over the potatoes. Sprinkle the grated cheese over dish and bake about 20 minutes in the oven (just above the middle) until the top is browned.

Source: Grandma's recipe of Monique van der Mey

The History Of The Potato

Potatoes are often on the Dutch menu, but not only are Dutch Potato Eaters. In almost all over the world people eat potatoes. Originally, the potato in the highlands of Peru where the Incas used it as food. The Spaniards brought the potato from Peru to the Netherlands in 1570. Only in the early 19th century the potato as a staple food popular in Europe. The potatoes were cheaper than grain.

Modern and healthy
Still, the potato in many people favorite. Many have discovered the diversity of the potato. Baking, frying, mashing, au gratin or grill, the potato is that! And then we do not even have goodies like chips, crisps, Rösti or croquettes. The potato fits perfectly with its many applications in the modern diet. There are many recipes for cooking on the stove, oven, microwave or for making salads. From snack to culinary achievement.
The beeper fits most certainly in today's nutritional advice as "Be moderate with fat 'and' eat plenty of starch and fiber.
The potato tuber contains no fat and is rich in starch, fiber and vitamin C.
Potato
The potato belongs to the Solanum species. That family includes tomato, eggplant, pepper and red pepper. Underground, the potato roots and sidestems. Sidestems come to the potatoes. Potatoes are so actually thickened underground stem parts of the plant. Per plant may be twelve to fifteen potato tubers are harvested.