Potatoes with Speck and Crucolo Cheese Sauce

Name: Potatoes with Speck and Crucolo Cheese Sauce
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes 6 (first course) or 4 (main course) servings
Ingredients: 2 pounds small to medium (2- to 3-inch-wide) yellow-fleshed potatoes such as Yukon Gold; 1 tablespoon salt; 2/3 cup whole milk; 1/2 pound Crucolo or Asiago Fresco cheese, coarsely grated (2 1/2 cups); 2 ounces (3/4-inch-thick) slices Italian speck (preferably from Alto Adige), cut into 3/4-inch-wide julienne strips

By Lou DiPalo

December 18, 2006

Formaggio Crucolo Fuso con Speck e Patate

What makes this dish so exceptional is Crucolo, a semisoft cow's-milk cheese, sweet and creamy like a fresh Asiago, that's made by a single producer in Trentino's Valsugana Valley. The region's speck, which comes from the hind leg of the pig, combines Italian salting and drying techniques with the smoke-curing common in Austria, where speck is more like bacon.

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