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Rustic Golden Delicious apple-and-potato bake with bacon

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07 May 2026
6
Easy
30 minutes
30 minutes

Apples and potatoes are like the Michelle and Barack of autumn produce – they were just meant to be. The apples are not jarringly sweet alongside the potatoes, they’re just perfectly tender, with a honey-like flavour. It’s all tied together with thin slices of onion in between and a generous amount of seasoned cream.

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Ingredients

Method
  • 2 cups cream
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 Golden Delicious apples, thinly sliced
  • 3 large potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 1 large onion, thinly sliced
  • 2 thyme large sprigs, leaves picked
  • 100 g Parmesan, finely grated, plus extra for serving

Method

Ingredients

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C. Pour the cream in a bowl and season very well with salt and pepper. Toss the apple and potato slices in the seasoned cream.

2. Grease a 20 x 15 cm baking dish with butter and arrange apple, potato and onion in alternating layers. You’ll probably be able to fit two rows in a smaller dish.

3. Pour over the cream and scatter with thyme. Sprinkle the Parmesan on and bake for 30 minutes, or until a knife pierces the potato easily. Serve warm sprinkled with extra Parmesan.

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Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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