For 5 servings, you will need 400 g of potatoes, 200 g of pasta (penne), 200 g of hard cheese, 100 g of butter, vegetable oil, 2 medium onions, 150 ml of high fat cream. Cut potatoes into cubes and cook until ready, and then cook pasta al dente and let it cool.
Onions are cut in half rings and caramelized in a pan in melted butter, which must be mixed in equal proportions with vegetable oil. Warm cream up without boiling and then add nutmeg, salt, and pepper to taste. Add grated half of the cheese head to cream, mix thoroughly, and add the ready potatoes, pasta and 2/3 of onions.
Put the resulting mixture in a baking dish, sprinkle it with the remaining cheese and decorate with onions. The casserole is cooked in an oven at a temperature of 200 °C for about 20 minutes. The ready dish is decorated with grated cheese and fresh herbs or vegetable salad, if desired.
At some Lucerne restaurants, the dish is served with traditional apple sauce, which can also be easily prepared at home. For the sauce, you will need 600 g of fresh apples, 2 tbsp. of pear juice, 150 ml of cider, 1 tbsp. of butter, 1 cinnamon stick. Peel apples and cut them into small slices, then stew it in the melted butter a bit.
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