Sweet and Mashed Potato Napoleons au Gratin

Serves 4

Preparation time is 15 hour, cooking time 1hour

You will need a napoleon tube for this recipe.

Ingredients

• 3 pounds yellow-fleshed potatoes – (1500grams)
• 2 large sweet potatoes
• ½ cup milk – (125ml)
• 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
• Olive oil
• Salt and pepper
• 2 garlic cloves
• ½ cup fresh parsley leaves – (125ml)
• 3 cups fresh bread crumbs – (750ml)
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese – (125ml)
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 yellow pepper
• 1 cup Kalmata olives – (250ml)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400F
2. In a large kettle cover yellow-fleshed potatoes, peels on, with cold salted water, bring to a simmer until potatoes become tender.
3. Using a knife or a mandolin, slice sweet potatoes to ¼ inch thick slices.  Use your napoleon tub like a cookie cutter and press into a round of sweet potato.  This will create the perfect size round potato.   Repeat until all sweet potatoes are done. You will need enough rounds for 4 napoleons.
4. Sprinkle sweet potato rounds with oil and season with salt and pepper.   Rub it in and take them to the oven and roast until tender.
5. Remove pits from Kalmata olives and slice thinly.  Finely dice red and yellow pepper to resemble confetti.
6. Once yellow-fleshed potatoes are cool enough to handle, peel and place into a bowl to mash.
7. In a small saucepan combine milk and 6 tbsp of butter, simmer until butter is completely melted.
8. Meanwhile place some minced garlic with butter into a hot skillet and sauté for a few seconds to get fragrant.  Add some bread crumbs and cook until golden, and let cool.
9. When your milk and butter have melted together, pour it into your mashed potatoes and mash coarsely.  One for olive napoleons and the other for pepper confetti napoleons.
10. Place your four napoleons on a baking sheet lined in parchment.  The parchment will ensure that the napoleons are easy to remove when they are done.
11. Place a roasted round sweet potato on the bottom of each napoleon.  Scoop some mashed potatoes on top of each round and flatten with a knife or the back of a spoon.  In two napoleons sprinkle a layer of black olives.  In the other two place a layer of confetti peppers.  Place another sweet round on top on that.  Then place another layer of mashed – add your olives or peppers, another sweet potato and a layer of mashed one more time.
12. Shave some fresh parmesan cheese into your bread mixture.  Toss in some chopped parsley for garnish and season with salt and pepper.
13. Place the cheese bread mixture on top of napoleons.  Bake your potato towers in the oven until it cooked through and golden on top, approximately 10-15 minutes.
14. Transfer to a cool surface and remove the casing.
15. Serve and enjoy!