Rösti Potatoes

Very, very nice, very simple to do. I'm only wondering how this will work for four portions - I only made two today and ended up with the 20 cm pancake described. For four portions you might have to adapt the cooking time.

Served with Roasted Monkfish with Red Wine Dressing, as suggested - just don't serve the fish on the Rösti as it'll lose all its crispness.

Similar to Kartoffelpuffer with or without Apple Sauce.

The nice thing about Rösti is that it's a nice way to prepare potatoes in advance; once they're cooked they won't discolour, and you can reheat them in no time (as opposed to having to peel and cook potatoes). Good for midweek suppers! This dish is also ideal when you're expecting guests as you can prepare it in advance and easily reheat it. The first time I did this, I unfortunately thought that reheating would reduce the time in the oven to 10-12 min – it doesn't. Just prepare it as if to serve immediately, then reheat. If in doubt, you could retrieve it maybe 30-60 sec earlier, but not more.

Edited 3 May 2014: Preparing the Rösti for four persons isn't any different than for two, only the the pancake will likely be thicker. I'm not sure if it's because of that, or because my supermarket changed the kind of potato recently, but the Rösti we made this week was slightly glibbery on the inside. It will probably help to either make thinner Röstis, or bake them longer (the potato was cooked, but just not nice in texture), or try a different kind of potato.

Also, when I took a bite of Rösti, I all of a sudden had the inspiration that it would go really really well with truffle (or at least faux truffle oil). If ever there was a glorious food idea, this is it!