Purple Potatoes with Caramelized Onions and Shiitake Mushrooms

Name: Purple Potatoes with Caramelized Onions and Shiitake Mushrooms
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 slices thick style bacon; 227 grams new purple potatoes sliced in half and then in small wedges; 1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced lengthwise; 4 mediums shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced; 1 serving Extra virgin olive oil; 1 serving Kosher Salt; 1 serving Freshly cracked pepper; 1 pinch red pepper flakes; 1 Tbsp chopped fresh tarragon; 1 Tbsp chopped capers; 1 Tbsps unsalted butter

If you have around 45 minutes to spend in the kitchen, Purple Potatoes with Caramelized Onions and Shiitake Mushrooms might be a spectacular gluten free recipe to try. This recipe serves 3. One portion of this dish contains around 6g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 231 calories. It works well as a side dish. A mixture of pepper flakes, capers, freshly cracked pepper, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty.

Instructions

Start caramelizing the onions: In a small sauté pan heat one tablespoon of olive oil over a low heat.

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Olive Oil

Onion

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Frying Pan

Add the sliced onions in one even layer, after five minutes add 1/2 tablespoon of butter, stir and add a pinch of kosher salt.

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Kosher Salt

Butter

Onion

While rendering your bacon and cooking your mushrooms in the next steps, make sure to stir the onions every few minutes and remove once they are evenly browned. This should take around 30 minutes, remove from heat when finished and reserve.

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Mushrooms

Onion

Bacon

Cook the bacon: While the onions are slowly cooking slice the bacon in small batonettes (1/8-inch crosswise strips) on your cutting board.

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Onion

Bacon

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Cutting Board

Heat up a larger sauté pan on medium and when your pan is hot add the sliced bacon.

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Bacon

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Slowly sauté the bacon until slightly crispy and remove from the pan onto a paper towel-lined plate, reserve for later.

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Bacon

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Paper Towels

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Cook mushrooms in rendered bacon fat: Julienne the shiitake mushrooms and then add them to the pan which now has the rendered bacon fat.

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Shiitake Mushrooms

Bacon Drippings

Mushrooms

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Add a pinch of salt and fresh cracked pepper to the Shiitake mushrooms, don’t shake the pan but let the mushrooms brown evenly on one side.

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Shiitake Mushrooms

Cracked Pepper

Mushrooms

Shake

Salt

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Once browned, flip the mushrooms delicately and remove from pan onto a smaller plate, reserve.

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Mushrooms

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Brown the purple potatoes:

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Purple Potato

Add 2 Tablespoons of olive oil in the pan and add the evenly sliced potatoes to the hot pan in a single layer; make sure not to crowd the pan.

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Olive Oil

Potato

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Add a pinch of red pepper flakes and a good pinch of salt to the potatoes.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Potato

Salt

Don’t move the pan, this is very important so that the potatoes can evenly brown.

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Potato

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After 3-5 minutes, when they are browned flip potatoes and brown the other side, turn down the heat to medium low to evenly cook the potatoes.

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Potato

Add capers, onions, mushrooms, bacon: Once the potatoes are thoroughly cooked, add the capers and let crisp up for a minute. Then combine the caramelized onions, mushrooms, and bacon to the large sauté pan with the browned potatoes.

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Onion

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