How to cook crunchy potato bake for $10

Before you start, Spread butter or margarine all over your baking tray. Leave it to the side for now.

Peel and cut all the potatoes into small pieces like this. You can cut as small or big as you like, we will be mashing it all anyway. Smaller pieces, faster cooking. Genius huh!

Boil until very soft. Please note its best to have all the ingredients close together. We want to work with Hot Potatoes when we mash. So when it's ready don't strain it. Let's do the filling.

Don't be alarmed is just vegetable oil. You can use olive oil if you like. Crisco or vegeta is also fine.

Fry 3/4 cup of sliced almonds. It's up to you if you wish to add more or remove the almonds all together. This dish is traditionally done with pine nuts. But Not anymore. We break all the rules. Lol.

As you can see, we haven't fried the almonds too much. We just want a light golden brown.

Add your minced beef and stir the almonds through it.

The beef is fully cooked, we're almost done. Amazing right? So easy peasy.

We have some already open bread sticks. So we are going to crush these to bread crumbs. But packet breadcrumbs are perfectly fine.

Alright, move quickly. Drain the water from the potatoes. Mash it up as fine as you can. We're just using an oversize hand grinder. Please use a spoon to handle your potatoes.

Add 2 tablespoons of ghee (or butter if you don't have ghee). Optional: 100 ml of pure cream. Not normally part of this recipe.

A cup of breadcrumbs and by now your potato should be cold enough to mix. Don't burn yourself please. Or just use a spoon.

Add a teaspoon of your fave spices. We used 1 teaspoon of salt, white pepper and five spice equally. Try cinamon, cardamon, black peppercorns, even basil. Did you wash your hands? ;) time to play

Mix and mash it all up. Should I tell you again LOL. If it's hot use a spoon or masher.

Sprinkle about half a cup of bread crumbs on your buttered or gheed (new word) tray and just shake it around until the crumbs stick themselves to the butter.

Divide your mashed potato in exact halves. Place one layer on the bottom until your tray is covered. Sorry I forgot to take that pic.

Spread the mince and almond all around making sure you cover the potato like so.

And with the other half of the potato mash mix, cover the meat all around.

If you can see meat then you did something naughty Lol. But keep going. And cover it all. If you run out of potato, dip your hand in some water and redistribute the potato. It will work ;)

Using a plastic knife or spatula cut in to the tray into squares. Why? Coz we love butter so much we're going to put it on top too. So we want the flavour to sink through.

Remember the snapguide blog I said stick your finger in everything. Well now is no exception. Lol. 4 or 5 holes deep down around the potato is enough. And stab your squares gently with plastic knife.

And now go all out with the balance of your breadcrumbs. Sprinkle it around all over as much as you like. Add the ghee or butter near those holes. It should be about 5 small teaspoons.

Bake for 45 minutes on 200 degrees celsius. And Say Hi to my Pink n Grey galah. Zeeko is my naughty bird and hangs out with my psychotic chickens. He joins them to destroy Dad's garden.

Yummmmyyyyy! From our amateur kitchen with love. Be sure to follow, like and comment. We are excited about the things to come ;)

Delicious crunchy outer and soft succulent inner. I'm talking about the potato bake. Lol. Salad: 1 large lettuce, lemon juice, salt, 1 tbsp of white vinegar and olive oil. It's an amazing match. :)