Fondant potatoes, or pommes fondant, is a method of preparing
potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Wild potato species can be found from the southern Unit ...
es that traditionally involves cutting them into cylinders, browning the ends, and then slowly roasting the potatoes in butter and stock.
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List of potato dishes
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and corn. The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about of potato. The potato was fir ...
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Potato dishes
French cuisine