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Rosti with Sausage and Onion Recipe

By Elizabeth Arneson, About.com

Innkeeper Jennifer Warner
First Farm Inn Kentucky
Petersburg, Kentucky (near Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky)

Prep Time: 0 hour, 30 minutes
Cook Time: 0 hour, 45 minutes
Ingredients:
  • 2 three-pound potatoes (for 6 to 8 people)
  • 1 pound of sausage
  • 1 or 2 onions
  • salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
Grate potatoes. Brown sausage in a non-stick skillet until no pink is left, not until crunchy. Drain grease from sausage. Add grated potatoes to sausage in hot skillet. Cook and turn regularly on medium to high heat for 30 to 45 minutes. Salt liberally, add pepper if desired. Dice one or two onions. Add to mixture. Continue to turn and brown for 15 minutes, flattening into the skillet.

Traditional Swiss rosti is served as a big flat brown cake on a round plate. To serve, invert a plate on top of potatoes in skillet, then turn the skillet upside down.

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