Are you looking for a tasty finger food? Here’s the perfect recipe: the Potato, Smoked Cheese, and Ham Oven Towers are easy, quick, and delicious! Starting dinner or serving an aperitif has never been so flavorful! The gooey smoked cheese, the cheese aroma, and the consistency of the potatoes will amaze you and your guests!
In less than 40 minutes we will prepare these delicious potatoes with ham and smoked cheese. They are the perfect trio for success in the kitchen. Three ingredients that pair wonderfully together, affordable and easily available at the supermarket. Let’s turn on the oven and start cooking!
If you’re planning a buffet or aperitif with tasty finger foods, these potato and cheese towers are a must-have on your table! Aromatic, gooey, and delicious, they are irresistible!
A few years ago, I proposed the potato and cheese burgers, a complete second course, aromatic and delicious, perfect for kids and that will also delight adults. Try this recipe and let me know what you think!
Before moving on to the potato, cheese, and ham tower recipe, remember that I await you every morning in the group and on the Facebook fan page of Le Ricette di Bea with the Recipe of the Day!
Furthermore, below you will find more potato recipes available on the blog. You can choose from appetizers, aperitifs, or easy and delicious sides!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very affordable
- Rest time: 2 Minutes
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4 People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 260.36 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 18.12 (g) of which sugars 1.04 (g)
- Proteins 16.98 (g)
- Fat 13.52 (g) of which saturated 1.60 (g)of which unsaturated 1.78 (g)
- Fibers 2.17 (g)
- Sodium 395.34 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 200 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for 4 servings of Potato, Smoked Cheese, and Baked Ham Towers
- 3 potatoes (medium-large)
- 5.3 oz ham
- 5.3 oz smoked cheese
- sprigs rosemary
- to taste cheese (grated of your choice)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch pepper
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
Optional the use of a clove of garlic to flavor the baked potato towers with smoked cheese and ham.
If you have time to prepare this recipe, you can make the potato slices even crispier by simply placing them in a bowl with cold water and a pinch of salt for at least ten minutes, so they lose starch becoming consequently crunchier to the bite after baking.
Tools to prepare the Potato, Smoked Cheese, and Ham Towers
- 1 Potato peeler
- 1 Mandoline
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Oven
- 2 Baking trays
- 2 Parchment paper
- 1 Kitchen spatula
- 1 Knife
- 1 Cutting board
For a buffet appetizer or starter, prepare two towers per person. If this recipe is part of your starters for lunch or dinner, you can prepare one tower per person so as not to weigh down the meal.
Steps for the Potato, Smoked Cheese, and Ham Oven Towers Recipe
We start this recipe by washing and patting dry the potatoes. We remove the skin using a potato peeler. With a mandoline, or a knife, we slice the potatoes aiming for slices about 1/8 inch thick.
Pour the potato slices into a bowl and season with extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper. Add the rosemary leaves and, if desired, a clove of garlic. Preheat the oven to 428 degrees F with static mode and let it heat.
Place a parchment paper sheet in each baking tray, arrange the potato slices spaced apart, add a drizzle of oil and some rosemary leaves. Bake and cook for about 25 minutes. The surface of the potatoes should become beautifully golden.
Meanwhile, slice the smoked cheese into slices about 1/8 inch thick, like the potatoes. Also, tear the ham into pieces. Keep both of these ingredients aside.
Once the potatoes are ready, we can remove them from the oven and let them cool on the kitchen counter for a few minutes. Now we can create the potato and cheese towers. Leave a sheet of parchment paper in a baking tray that we will use for the second phase of the potato baking.
Place a potato slice with a piece of ham on top, then another potato and then a slice of cheese, then again potato, ham, and cheese, followed by a potato cap that we set aside from the cutting and baked along with the other slices in the tray.
Sprinkle with some grated cheese and bake the potato and ham towers for about 4-5 minutes. The oven should be at the same temperature as the first baking, namely 428 degrees F with static mode. This will allow the smoked cheese and cheese to melt and create a golden crust on the surface. Serve the potato and cheese towers hot and gooey, irresistible!
I wish you all bon appétit and remind you that I await you every morning in the group and on the Facebook page with the Recipe of the Day!
If you enjoyed this recipe, I recommend trying the parsley and garlic potatoes. You will find the recipe and the video recipe on the blog to follow me step by step.
Tips and variations:
As the main tip, I would say you should try to cut the potatoes to the same thickness. For this reason, I mentioned in the list of essential tools for this recipe, the mandoline. By choosing the thickness, you will achieve all slices of equal thickness, something that is difficult to achieve with a knife. This will ensure even cooking of the potatoes, perfect for creating the potato towers with cheese and ham. Here is the link to purchase the same mandoline that I use and which you will also see in the video recipe. Click here to purchase it.
Main variations can include: using a clove of garlic, as already mentioned in the recipe text. You can also vary the type of cold cut, choosing prosciutto or salami. However, I would avoid sausage. Being an appetizer or aperitif, sausage could make it too heavy.
You can also change the cheese. If you don’t like smoked cheese, you can use another soft cheese that easily melts in a few minutes, like galbanino, toma, or emmental.
