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.
Andrea Fletcher
This looks lovely, will have to try this.
Camilla
Thanks, I’m sure you’d love it-)
clairebybear
This sounds perfect for a cold evening, when you really need warm comfort food.
Camilla
Thanks Claire, it’s one of our favourites-)
Cat
This looks delicious, what a great idea 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Cat, hope you get to try it:-)
Kate - gluten free alchemist
That’s such a nostalgic dish! Takes me straight back to Uni (which was a very long time ago). I used to live on layered potato bake…. pure comfort food for sure…. but delicious! x
Camilla
Fab Kate, I’ll have to get my son making it, he seems to be living off chilli and spag bol mainly:-)
Amy Fidler
Bet this is delicious x looks great x
Richard Eldred Hawes
This looks lovely and is just the type of food I love to eat
Amy Fidler
I’d actually try this for Breakfast xx
Camilla
I don’t think I’d have the energy to make it for breakfast and too long a wait:-)
sandy
perfect for an easy cheap family dinner – and it actually *is* cheap, unlike many recipes which claim to be. “only £5 for a main course” my foot! This is the stuff… and my 4 year old loves to helps with most of it too 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Sandy, yes it is cheap and delicious and a dish I grew up on:-)
Anona
Hi Camilla. Family visit every Saturday and this is sometimes a luncheon dish. I have made it for my sister’s family in Florida and it was a success. I have been making it for 54 years and I thought I had invented it. Lol!!! I too discovered par boiling the potatoes was a good idea. Are you from the north of England by any chance?
Camilla
Hi Anona, no I’m from the South but my mother is Danish LOL.
bexjones76
Sounds and looks totally divine … definitely a winter warmer recipe !!!
Camilla
Thank you, it really is a great winter warmer:-)