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These Scalloped potatoes are rich and wonderful. You’d probably earn 10,000 points with weight watchers, but it’s a very nice dish for special occasions. Oh and we are continuing our countdown to Christmas so read on to find out what I’m giving away!
Ingredients for Au Gratin Scalloped Potatoes:
3 lbs Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled
1/2 yellow onion
4-6 garlic cloves
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
3 cups shredded cheddar jack cheese
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 cup whole milk
4 Tbsp unsalted butter
How to Make Scalloped Potatoes:
Preheat Oven to 375˚ and butter a 9×13 glass baking dish.
1. Using a mandolin, carefully slice the potatoes into rounds that are about 1/8 inch thick. Place slices into a large bowl filled with water. Mandolin… ahem…hint, hint.
2. Sautee 4 Tbsp butter with 1/2 medium chopped onion in a medium saucepan about 5 minutes or until onions are soft. Add pressed garlic and stir an additional 1 minute. Stir in 2 cups heavy whipping cream and 1 cup whole milk. Heat to a simmer then pour over potatoes once they are in the baking dish (after step 4).
3. Drain potatoes and pat dry with paper towels. Layer half of the potatoes into the baking dish. Combine the salt and pepper and sprinkle half of the salt and pepper mixture on top of the potatoes. Sprinkle 1.5 cups of cheese on top of the potatoes. Repeat with the the other half of the potatoes, salt and pepper and cheese.
4. Pour the cream over the potatoes and push the potatoes down to submerge them into the cream. They won’t be fully covered by cream and that’s ok. Cover dish with foil and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 1 hour. Then remove foil and bake for another 30-45 minutes until top is golden and bubbly and most of the liquid has been absorbed by the potatoes. If the potatoes are browning too fast, tent dish with foil and continue baking. Potatoes should be easy to pierce with a fork when done.
Merry Christmas and happy cooking! 🙂
-Natasha
Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 4-6 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 3 cups shredded cheddar jack cheese
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter
Instructions
Preheat Oven to 375˚ F and butter a 9 x 13 glass baking dish.
- Using a mandolin, carefully slice the potatoes into rounds that are about 1/8 inch thick. Place slices into a large bowl filled with water.
- Sautee 4 tbsp butter with 1/2 medium chopped onion in a medium saucepan about 5 minutes or until onions are soft. Add pressed garlic and stir an additional 1 minute. Stir in 2 cups heavy whipping cream and 1 cup whole milk. Heat to a simmer then pour over potatoes once they are in the baking dish.
- Drain potatoes and pat dry with paper towels. Layer half of the potatoes into the baking dish. Combine the salt and pepper and sprinkle half of the salt and pepper mixture on top of the potatoes. Sprinkle 1.5 cups of cheese on top of the potatoes. Repeat with the the other half of the potatoes, salt and pepper and cheese.
- Pour the cream over the potatoes and push the potatoes down to submerge them into the cream. They won't be fully covered by cream and that's OK. Cover dish with foil and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 1 hour. Then remove foil and bake for another 30-45 minutes until top is golden and bubbly and most of the liquid has been absorbed by the potatoes. If the potatoes are browning too fast, tent dish with foil and continue baking. Potatoes should be easy to pierce with a fork when done.
The onion chopper makes my life easier
The most important kitchen tool I have is my Kitchen Aid stand mixer.
Like a lot of people, I LOVE my Kitchen Aid mixer, but I’d have to say, a new favorite is this handy-dandy tool my grandma got me for Christmas last year. It is a plastic utensil that basically has a giant “X” at the bottom and you use it to break up ground beef or ground turkey. I absolutely love it!
My favorite tools in the kitchen are: my cuisine art food processor (especially when it comes to shredding or chopping onions, lol ;)) as well as my Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twin knives – very sharp, cut everything great!!
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It would be the kitchen aid mixer. I bake a lot so I use it all the time.
These potatoes look so delicious…I am going to try making it sometime this weekend…my husband loves potatoes 🙂 Food processor deffinetly makes my life so much easier in the kitchen. The best tool ever made 🙂
I love my kitchen aid mixer and all the attachments i got to it!
My kitchen Aid mixer. Can’t imagine cooking/baking without it : )
I liked this post on the facebook. great pictures
my favorite gadget is my salad shooter…lol…
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I love my Kitchen Aid stand mixer and the attachments you can get with it. I do need to replace some though since I use them a lot, including the meat grinder attachment. I love the fact that you could be whipping up something and step away to do something else.
Don’t mean to repeat everyone but honestly the kitchen aid mixer. Used to bake without it and can’t believed I survived.
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My favorite kitchen tool is definitely the food grinder attachment that goes with kitchen aid mixer. Before we got the new one we would always have to use the old one we had from Ukraine!!