Sig's Aschklo (Baked Dumpling)

Ingredients

• 500 grams raw
• peeled and blended potatoes
• 300 grams boiled potatoes
• 20 grams potato starch or corn flour
• 20 grams flour
• 3 large shallots
• thinly sliced
• 150 grams fried up bacon lardons optional
• 1 good pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of fresh cracked black pepper
• 1 knob of butter for greasing your ovenproof dish
• 8 slice of bread of choice
• 125 ml milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp dried wild garlic optional

Instructions

1. Boil 300 grams of peeled potatoes until soft and mash them.
2. In the meantime peel and blend or geate the rest of potatoes to a fine consistency..Put the raw potato into a tea towel and press out the juices,put the juice aside
3. Saute the slices shallot until slightly caramelised.
4. Fry up the bacon lardons if using
5. Add both the potatoes , mashed and very fine grated ( i use blender) and the onions,the bacon if using, the flours, and salt and pepper together and mix well.
6. If to dry add a little of the starchy potato liquid .
7. Put the dough into a greased ovenproof dish
8. Top with the bread .
9. Mix the milk and the egg and pour this over the top of the bread
10. Bake in oven on middle setting for about an hour or until bread is golden brown
11. Sprinkle over the wild garlic if yiu like .You can eat this hot or cold .
12. Serve instead of plain boiled potatoes cut into tennis ball size.
13. Serve with a salad or with meat if you like.