Egg Potato Bake

A community recipe by MotherLodeBeth

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Introduction

Our son asked me to make this years ago after he read Diet For a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe. I tweaked it a bit with more mushrooms, and unpeeled red potato.

Ingredients

Serves: 4-6 servings

3 medium red potatoes (cooked or steamed with the skin on - cool and slice)
3 medium eggs (hard boiled and sliced)
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup buttermilk
Worcestershire sauce
1 cup grated Cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 pinch of freshly ground pepper
½ pound button mushrooms
wheat germ
2 tablespoons flour (unbleached)

Method

Egg Potato Bake is a community recipe submitted by MotherLodeBeth and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.

In a saucepan melt the butter and stir in the flour and cook to make a roux, Slowly add the buttermilk and mix until blended, and allow to thicken into a sauce consistency.

Add the Worcestershire sauce,salt, pepper and then grated cheese, Stir to blend.

Oil or butter a casserole dish and place half the potatoes and then half the sliced hard boiled eggs and then the cheese mixture. Repeat. T

op with the sliced mushrooms and more of the cheese mixture. Then sprinkle with wheat germ.

Bake at 350* F for 20 minutes or until hot and bubbly.