Mashed Potato and Green Bean Loaf
Featuring smooth, creamy mashed potatoes studded with green beans, and accentuated with parmesan cheese, this is the ultimate way to a potato lover’s heart. We’ve kept ours vegetarian but you could add diced bacon too.
How long will it take?
1 ½ hours
What’s the serving size?
Serves 6
What do I need?
- 6 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped into a small dice
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- ½ cup milk
- 2 free range eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large brown onion, finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 cups green beans, chopped into 1 centimetre pieces
- 1 cup parmesan, grated
How do I make it?
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Grease and line a 24cm x 13cm x 6.5cm loaf pan.
- Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add potatoes to the water and cook until they are tender. Remove from heat and drain. Mash potatoes with 2 tablespoons butter, milk, eggs, salt and pepper until smooth and creamy, then set aside to cool.
- Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat and add onion. Cook until the onion has softened, then add garlic and cook for a further 1 minutes. Add chopped beans and cook for a further 2 to 3 minutes, then remove from heat and set aside to cool.
- Combine onions, garlic and bean mixture with the mashed potatoes and three-quarters of the parmesan cheese.
- Spread the mixture into the loaf pan and use a fork to “rough up” the top. Sprinkle the remaining parmesan over the top.
- Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until the top is golden brown and the loaf is heated all the way through.
- Remove from oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes before removing from the pan.
- Serve cut into slices.
