Comfort food that is easy and cheap to prepare. You can make a double batch and freeze some if you like.
Oakhill Potatoes
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 4 Eggs Hardboiled and Sliced
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 Onion large
- 3 rashers bacon
- 500 gm Potatoes Peeled and Cooked
Cheese Sauce
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 2 tbsp Flour
- Black Pepper
- 2 Cups Milk
- 1 Cup Tasty Cheese Grated
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180
- Heat oil in fry pan, add onion and bacon and cook for 5 min or until onion is soft. Cut the potatoes into 1cm slices.
- Layer the cooked potatoes, sliced egg, onion and bacon in an ovenproof dish.
- To make the cheese sauce, melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour and pepper and cook till frothy. Gradually stir in the milk until it thickens, stir in the grated cheese.
- Pour the cheese sauce over the potato mixture.
- Top with some breadcrumbs if desired.
- Place in the oven and bake for 20 -30 minutes or until golden.
Very helpful and tasted delicious
Thanks so much for this recipe, Marty.
I used to cook this delicious dish a long time ago but could not quite remember how it went !
My ultimate hot meal, Oakhill potatoes, Roast beef, Peas, rich brown gravy.
My mother in law used to make this, always loved it but never knew its name. Great way to use up leftover ham at Christmas.
Greetings Marty;
I first came across this particular dish in 1974, served in the staff cafeteria at the Auckland Public Hospital of all places. I had thought it to be a popular New Zealand recipe, having never seen its like in England, Scotland, Canada, the United States or Australia, where I had lived and worked. I found it only in New Zealand.
I vividly recall a dinner of grilled lamb cutlets, asparagus and Oak Hill potatoes. I also recall being so impressed with it I gobbled down two portions.
I’d tried to duplicate the recipe several times over the years and I think I managed to get pretty close.
Your recipe is probably the one I will follow when next I yearn for Oak Hill Potatoes, a symphony of
comfort food ingredients in perfect harmony.
Oakhill potatoes were served as a lunch dish when I was a nurse at Hawera Hospital some 60 years ago. Looking for a way to use an abundance of potatoes I was delighted to come across this old style recipe and made it that night. A bit of nostalgia for which I am grateful.
Yes, Oakhill potatoes was on the menu when I was a trainee nurse, too, at Wanganui hospital also 60 years ago and some! very tasty! In the days when there was actually a kitchen with human beings onsite. I think we were blessed, and the patients.