Herbed Potato and Squash Torte is a rustic, comforting dish that feels like a warm hug on a chilly day. It’s layers of thinly sliced potatoes and delicately flavored squash, with fresh thyme and plant based parmesan for a huge burst of fall flavor! As you take a bite, the potatoes and squash melt in your mouth, the thyme infusing every forkful with it’s delightful herby essence. It’s comfort food with a gourmet twist that’s perfect for Sukkot, Shabbat or any fall meal.
Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
This time of year, with all the Jewish Holidays, we’re eating a ton of food. I wanted to make a recipe that at least resembled something healthy(ish), with vegetables included. One of our family’s favorite dishes is Scalloped Potatoes, it really tastes like comfort food. Dear Daughter has become famous among her friends for her most excellent skill in preparing it for Shabbat meals. I took that recipe and converted it to Herbed Potato and Squash Torte, adding fresh zucchini and yellow squash and Optimistic Garden thyme. It’s really wonderful and was a big hit on Rosh Hashanah. I even made another one for Sukkot. It’s definitely going to be a new staple recipe in our house!
How to make Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
One of the most helpful tools I used when making the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte was my mandolin. I’m a big fan on the OXO Good Grips Simple Mandolin Slicer. It’s compact, easy to clean and the slicing width is easily adjustable. Big fan. Using a mandolin to slice the potatoes and squash makes the slicing task speedy quick and the slices are perfectly even. I also use the Microplane Cut Resistant Glove so that I don’t slice my fingers when cutting the vegetables.
Using a Mandolin to slice the vegetables for Herbed Potato and Squash Torte makes all the vegetables exactly the same width.
The seasoing and magical flavors
When all blended together, the flavors are pretty magical.
Ingredients for Herbed Potato and Squash Torte.
I cut some Optimistic Garden fresh thyme and blended it with some gluten-free 1:1 flour and plant based parmesan. That mixture gets sprinkled between thinly sliced Yukon Gold potatoes, yellow squash and zucchini.
Parmesan, thyme, flour mixture. Super flavorful!
Circles and more circles make the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
Once all the vegetables and the flour mixture is prepped all that’s left is assembling the torte. I started with a layer of potatoes, then zucchini, then potatoes, then yellow squash, finishing with potatoes with a sprinkling of the flour mixture in between each layer.It’s pretty straight forward.
Layering the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte.
Baking the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
The torte is baked in two steps. First it’s baked covered to allow the potatoes to suffcienttly cook through, then it’s uncovered and baked some more allowing the top of the torte to brown and the liquid to thicken.
I did spray the top of the torte with nonstick avocado spray after removing the foil to help the browning process. It worked nicely.
Herbed Potato and Squash Torte gets beautifully browned after the second baking. You can see the parmesan and thyme peeking out on top.
Extra vegetable dilemma
The first time I made the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte I sliced too many vegetables. I ended up making a second plate of the layered dish with the extra. If you have bigger squash/zucchini or more potatoes, feel free to make an extra.I did.
The extra Herbed Potato and Squash Torte.
Here’s the recipe for Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
I love the way using the different colored squash looked in the final version of this dish. If you don’t have yellow squash feel free to use only zucchini with the potatoes. Tthe contrast of colors will be beautiful.If you like you can also make this dish dairy by using fresh, dairy grated parmesan.
A gorgeous slice of Herbed Potato and Squash Torte.
Herbed Potato and Squash Torte
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 75 minutes
- Total Time: 90 minutes
- Yield: 1 Herbed Potato and Squash Torte 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Plant Based
- Diet: Kosher
Description
Herbed Potato and Squash Torte is a rustic, comforting dish that feels like a warm hug on a chilly day. It’s layers of thinly sliced potatoes and delicately flavored squash with fresh thyme and plant based parmesan for a huge burst of fall flavor! As you take a bite, the potatoes and squash melt in your mouth, the thyme infusing every forkful with it’s delightful herby essence. It’s comfort food with a gourmet twist that’s perfect for Sukkot, Shabbat or any fall meal.
Ingredients
- nonstick spray
- 1/2 cup flour, gluten-free 1:1
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup plant based parmesan
- 1 1/2 pounds yukon gold potatoes, sliced 3mm thick (1/8-inch)
- 1/2 pound fresh zucchini, sliced 3mm thick (1/8-inch)
- 1/2 pound yellow squash, sliced 3mm thick (1/8-inch)
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F or 350°F Convection. Spray a 10-inch round baking pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, thyme, salt, pepper and parmesan.
- Place a layer of potatoes on the bottom of the baking dish, working in concentric circles. Sprinkle the flour mixture over the potatoes.
- Top with a layer of zucchini, then flour mixture, then another layer of potatoes, then flour mixture, then yellow squash and flour mixture, finishing with a layer of potatoes topped with the flour mixture.
- Drizzle the oil over the top of the torte. Spray a piece of aluminum foil, then cover the torte (greased side on the torte) and bake for 45 minutes.
- After 45 minutes, uncover the torte and generously spray with nonstick spray.
- Bake for an additional 30 minutes until the top is browned.
- Allow the Herbed Potato and Squash Torte to rest for 10 minutes before serving.
Equipment
Microplane Cut Resistant Glove Keep Hands Safe in The Kitchen, One Size (Pack of 1)
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OXO Good Grips Simple Mandoline Slicer
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You can also add some chopped fresh rosemary and chives if you like.
If you don’t have yellow squash, you can use zucchini instead for a full pound of zucchini.
Try to use squash and potatoes that are approximately the same width for best results.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 175
- Sugar: 0.8 g
- Sodium: 287.4 mg
- Fat: 7.4 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 22.9 g
- Fiber: 2.1 g
- Protein: 5.2 g
- Cholesterol: 5.4 mg
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These were amazing! I was lucky enough to try them and they were so fantastic that I kept going in for more. Also, I was shocked to find out that they were gluten-free!
Awesome!!! Thanks Eliana!