Bacon & Potato Layer Bake is layers of sliced potato, bacon, tomato, onion and cheese baked with chicken stock. So simple and delicious, comfort food I grew up with!
NB: I have brought my Bacon & Potato Layer Bake recipe up to date with some better photographs as its so popular and deserved better. Enjoy!
Bacon & Potato Layer Bake is another dish that I grew up eating, it’s totally yummy and a great hit with the whole family.
Over the years I’ve tweaked the method as the potatoes always had a habit of not cooking and having to spend longer in the oven.
To get round this problem I now par boil the potato slices at the beginning. Plus the addition of chicken stock helps by providing moisture and steam during the cooking process as well as making the dish even tastier!
We love this bacon bake with just a simple serving of petite pois and a dollop of ketchup, comfort food at its best!
More Potato and Bacon Recipes Ideas
- Bacon Roly Poly
- One Pot Minced Beef Hotpot
- Skinny Haddock, Bacon & Mushroom Chowder
- Spicy Bacon & Baked Bean Casserole
- Easy Cheesy Cheat’s Cottage Pie
- Garlic & Rosemary Scalloped Potato Roast
- Potato, Gruyere & Spinach Dauphinoise
- Air Fried Panko Crusted Potato & Onion Cakes
Pure comfort food at its best!
I’m sure you and your family will love my Bacon & Potato Layer Bake so do leave a comment and star rating below.
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Bacon & Potato Layer Bake
Ingredients
- 850 g potatoes finely sliced
- 1 pack smoked back bacon (6 – 8 rashers), fat removed
- 1 onion finely sliced
- 150 g extra mature Cheddar cheese grated
- 3 tomatoes sliced
- 200 mls chicken stock
- 30 g butter approximately
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Grease a large casserole dish.
- Bring a large pan of water to boil and boil the potato slices for 6 minutes and then drain.
- Fry the bacon rashers until just cooked.
- Place alternate layers of potato, onion, bacon, tomato, grated cheese, seasoning and about 7 small knobs of butter (should make 2 layers).
- Finish with a layer of potato and grated cheese flecked with more butter.
- Finally pour hot chicken stock over the potatoes.
- Cover with foil (shiny side down) or a lid and cook for an hour (or until tender).
- Remove foil or lid and cook for a further 10 minutes to allow the cheese to brown.
Sue OBrien
What a great dish idea! These are all ingredients that you usually have lying around at home so perfect!
Camilla
Thank you Sue, such a popular dish which was No 2 in the chart for last year:-)
Richard Eldred Hawes
Ah bacon potatoes and cheese, who could ask for anything more
Camilla
Exactly, a long time favourite:-)
Ruth Hedges
Lovely meal, looks really tasty and has the perfect combination of ingredients x
Camilla
Thank you Ruth, such a popular dish:-)
Christine Lockley
Fab, love the sound of this, definitely on this autumns menu plan
Camilla
Thanks Christine, I’m sure you’ll love it:-)
Gillian Mackenzie
This looks so delicious for cosy autumn nights in front of the tv!! Think I will make this tonight! xx
Camilla
Great Gillian, it is true comfort food, hope you enjoyed it:-)
Angie Hoggett
looks gorgeous I must say
Camilla
Thanks Angie;-)
Sam McKean
I love recipes like this, proper warming comfort food! Yum.
Camilla
Thank you Sam, it’s such a favourite here:-)
Deborah Mackenzie
This looks really tasty! Would like to try it with a BBQ
Lynne OConnor
Great suggestion about par boiling. I always have problems with the potato slices in oven bakes
Camilla
Thanks Lynne, yes I lived through many false starts to this dish as a kid LOL so this was my solution:-)
Sam McKean
This looks so tasty! Must try as I hope that even my kids will eat it 🙂