Cooking&Baking Challenge - Session 7: Aligot

Here is my recipe for the January Cooking Challenge! A recipe from the southern part of Central France: Aligot. It is a delicious mix of cheese, garlic and mashed potatoes!

Aligot for four persons

Ingredients:

* 1kg potatoes

* 400 gr Tomme (French cheese)

* 200gr crème fraîche

* 2 garlic cloves

* salt, pepper

Preparation:

* Boil the water

* Peel the potatoes and the garlic. Cut the potatoes in large pieces and put them in the boiling water with 1 garlic clove for 20 minutes.

* In the meantime, cut the cheese in thin slices.

* After the 20 min. take the clove out, mash the potatoes with a bit of the cooking water in order to obtain a nice consistency.

* Add the crème fraîche with a wooden spoon.

* Put the potatoes back in the pot without the water. Warm it up on low heat and add quickly the cheese while mixing vigorously. The aligot then forms a sort of "ribbon" when you let it run from the spoon.

* Add salt and pepper

* If it is not tasty enough, you can crush the second garlic clove and add it to the aligot.

Bon appétit!

 Even our 1yo enjoyed it ^^