Purple Potato, Tomato, and Goat Cheese Bruschetta
Are you guys sick of all the purple food yet? I’ve still got a few more recipes to post and then I’ll shut up about purple food. When I saw this Purple Potato Pizza posted back in January, I immediately starred it to make at some point. I hadn’t even started thinking about purple food, but the colors on that pizza just popped and drew me in.
When I started pulling a menu together, I had the pizza on the list. I decided that having a tart, baguette slices with the baked brie, AND a pizza would be a little to carb heavy for my tastes. But then I had to decide which of those items to ditch. I went back and forth. Then it hit me, I could use the pizza as inspiration for a dip or something. But dips often go with chips or toast or crackers. More carbs. I decided to let the idea simmer a bit and stopped thinking about it.
A couple days later it hit me – endive leaves! They’re crispy and crunchy and not carby at all. Perfect! This is basically the same recipe that I use for bruschetta, except I added some lightly boiled purple potatoes! I added my potatoes to the mixture while they were still a bit warm so the cheese got all melty which was awesome. I would recommend serving this the same day you make it. The Purple Potato, Tomato, and Goat Cheese Bruschetta would be great over sliced baguettes or on chips as well.
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Purple Potato, Tomato, and Goat Cheese Bruschetta
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients:
1 lb purple potatoes
2 large tomatoes
2 oz crumbled goat cheese
1/2 medium red onion, finely diced
large bunch cilantro, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
toasted bagueette slices or endive leaves (separated and washed) for serving
Directions:
Set a pot of salted water to boil. Chop the potatoes into small cubes. Once water is boiling, add potatoes and boil for 5 minutes. Drain potatoes and allow to cool.
Seed and dice the tomatoes and place in a medium bowl. Add the goat cheese and diced red onion.
Once potatoes have cooled, add them to the bowl along with the cilantro and salt and pepper. If the potatoes are warm, the goat cheese will melt a little bit. That's ok.
To serve, spoon bruschetta into endive leaves or over toasted baguette slices.
Recipe inspired by The Novice Chef
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I love roast potatoes, and the addition of mustard sounds amazing! I would probably throw some garlic cloves in there too — nothing better than roast garlic!
Wow! Does this ever sound and look delicious! Ummmmm! Love roast potatoes and mustard both and I can only imagine how excellent this dish is! I will be trying this! Thanks!
The color on those potatoes is just AMAZING! Looks fabulous!
Roasted potatoes are a go-to winter side dish for me, and I’m always looking for a new recipe. This one is a keeper!
These look delicious! I bet the mustard adds a lot of delicious flavor…yum!
Mmm, these look great! I love roasted potatoes and make a similar version with horseradish mustard and lemon juice and they are so good. Such an easy recipe and a huge crowd pleaser!
There’s a similar recipe on Epicurious that also uses lemon juice and zest. Addictive!
I love ina gartens recipes! Ive made this one before it was amazing!
These look fabulous!
I’ve never been disappointed by an Ina Garten recipe and this one looks wonderfully delicious too.
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This may seem completely unimportant (or relevant) but is there any reason the onions didn’t make it to the final plate (picture)? Or maybe I’m just blind…
beantownbaker — September 2nd, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Great question! I think I just chopped them really small when I made them that time… Who knows, maybe I omitted them. I’ve made this recipe so many times and the onions are great, but sometimes I don’t have any on hand.
What did you serve with the potatoes and onions? I have only one oven so can’t roast at different temps at the same time!