Oscar's Potatoes
A recipe from Oscar Martinez, the longest-serving Disneyland employee - the breakfast potatoes from Carnation Cafe at Disneyland on Main Street U.S.A.
Ingredients
- 2 pounds red potatoes sliced 1/4 inch or thicker
- 1 medium onion julienned, white
- 6 tbsp butter
- Salt & Pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Saute onions in 2 tbsp. butter until softened. Set aside.
- In a 12 inch skillet (don't crowd the potatoes), saute potatoes with the remainder of the butter. Keep cooking until the potatoes are browned and add the onions. Season with salt and pepper.
- Transfer potato mixture to a new pan; 8x10 works well. Then cover with parchment paper and foil. Poke hole in foil for ventilation.
- Bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour
- Taste and correct for salt and pepper as needed
- MORE FROM OSCAR: "You have to stay with the potatoes. You can't walk away. They need to be basted with butter every five minutes"
Notes
For my family, who are not big fans of onion, we only used half on one – and it came out very well (we actually found that maybe we do like onions this way!).
Since the recipe doesn’t specify, the butter I used was salted, so I was careful to not add too much extra salt down the line.
The instruction “don’t crowd the potatoes” had me a bit worried, because how can they not be crowded in a 12 in. skillet? So what I ended up doing probably added some extra cook time to this recipe, but the outcome was just right – as I cooked the potatoes I started pulling out slices that were browned to ensure that they didn’t get burned and to make room that all of the slices were cooked as evenly as possible.
The “More from Oscar” instruction was a bit unclear to me, I took it to mean that he was referring to the cooking in the skillet step, because YES, you will want to stay with them the whole time and keep stirring/flipping them so they all get cooked in the butter at the bottom of the pan (I did not baste or scoop and pour butter over them). I think the potatoes, once in the oven are fine to be left alone.
The serving size says 6-8, and we were a family of 4 and we had very few leftovers. If I made this again for company, I would definitely increase the recipe for a bigger group.