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YummlyThis potatoes au gratin recipe is a savory staple to have in your side dish repertoire. Made with sliced potatoes in a creamy sauce, these au gratin potatoes are then covered with a generous layer of Manchego cheese and baked until melted and golden on top. Savory, creamy, and cheesy, these potatoes pair wonderfully with steak or pork, roasted vegetables, or a big green salad. This dish is incredibly versatile and goes well with just about anything. It's the ultimate comfort food — a true crowd pleaser. This recipe makes a perfect side dish for weeknight dinners or to serve on a special occasion, such as with a roast for your Christmas feast or with ham for Easter dinner! The best part? This tasty potato recipe has a much shorter cook time than many traditional gratin potatoes recipes due to an untraditional tool — the microwave! This elegant yet easy recipe can be on the table in less than an hour. With just 15 minutes of active prep time, it can even be assembled in advance and cooked later. All you have to do is prepare the recipe as directed, then cover it tightly with plastic wrap, store in the refrigerator, and cook fully before serving. ## What Is The Au Gratin Cooking Method? While "au gratin" sounds fancy, it's actually not complicated at all. In fact, “to gratinée" means simply to give a dish a golden-brown top. Since many au gratin dishes call for lots of cheese, some people think that the term is French for “with cheese.” However, you don't necessarily need to use cheese. Whether made with cheese, breadcrumbs, or both, browning happens during the cooking process and can be accelerated by passing the dish under a broiler. ## Potatoes Au Gratin Vs. Scalloped Potatoes You may be wondering about the difference between scalloped potatoes and au gratin potatoes. They’re very similar, and in fact, many people use the names interchangeably. You may see variations in recipes: some use onions, while others use shallots; some use Gruyere cheese, and others use cheddar cheese. Don't get hung up on the name, and choose a recipe that sounds good to you! The results are basically the same: sliced potatoes cradled in a creamy sauce. ## Variations Have fun with this recipe! Make it your own with some of these delicious options: _Use different cheeses._ If you prefer a sharper flavor, try a sharp cheddar cheese or gruyere cheese. You can even sprinkle in parmesan cheese or try provolone for a milder flavor. There's no rule on just how cheesy your potatoes can be! _Use a variety of potatoes._ This dish calls for russet potatoes, which are mealy potatoes with a high starch content that are excellent for baking. For something different, try red potatoes — waxy potatoes with a low starch content that hold their shape well during cooking. You could also try a Yukon gold potato, which has properties of both waxy and mealy potatoes. _Add vegetables._ Boost the nutrition of this dish — and add a new dimension of flavor — by adding onions, turnips, or carrots. Roast the vegetables ahead of time, then layer in with the potatoes. You can also add fresh herbs such as parsley, oregano, or basil. _Add meat._ Diced ham, ground beef, or sliced bacon would all be great additions to this dish. Fully cook the meat ahead of time, then add into the potatoes and prepare as the recipe directs. _Thicken the sauce._ If you'd prefer a thicker cream sauce, add 2-3 Tbsp. of all-purpose flour to the whipping cream. _Substitute heavy cream._ Another way to slightly thicken the sauce is to swap heavy cream for whipping cream. They're very similar, but whipping cream is slightly lighter — it has about 6% less fat than heavy cream. _Top with breadcrumbs._ if you want to add extra texture to this dish, sprinkle breadcrumbs over the top of the potatoes and cheese before cooking. You don't need much, just a light layer will work. Never make potatoes au gratin from the box again now that you have this recipe!Food.comA really interesting sounding recipe from Janet Reeves' "One Potato Two Potato" that you cook on your griddle. I'm always looking for ways to use up bits of leftover things, and here is a great way to use leftover mashed potatoes.Food.comI got this recipe from a cookbook “Wonderful Ways to Cook Curries” I paid 50c for the book in a thrift shop and don’t plan to keep the poor old thing. I haven’t made this recipe, but we eat a lot of curries and I know I will. Remember an Australian tablespoon is 4 teaspoons.Food.comI got this recipe from the book "Don't Panic-Dinner's In the Freezer". This dish tastes just like the fried potato cakes my Mom used to make back in the day. The only thing I do different is to cook my potatoes in the microwave and use a small cookie scoop to remove the potato pulp. I have also left the skins on and mashed them that way. My family loves it either way!Food52My mama was a good cook -- not a great cook, but a perfectly adequate one -- until she crossed into the realm of pastries, sweets and baking. And then she was phenomenal. She was known for her cakes and pies, her cookies and candies (chocolate cherry cordials, popcorn balls), and her party fare of petit fours, candied fruit, lemon tarts. But all of them....well, maybe except for the blackberry cobbler and the chess pie...pale beside the potato doughnuts. She'd start them on a Friday night, and finish them on Saturday morning, when the aroma would wake me and I'd float back to the kitchen in the wake of my nose to find a plate of hot, freshly glazed doughnut holes and a tall glass of cold milk. Heaven! She made them with a three-inch biscuit cutter than had an attachment you inserted to cut out the holes, which she'd fry separately and let them get barely crispy on the outside, with the interior lighter than air; the doughnuts were wonderful, but the holes were sublime. After Mama died, I was going through some of her things in the kitchen, and I found the grease-spotted, dog-eared index card with her doughnut recipe, handwriting faded with time. I sat in the middle of the kitchen floor and wept. And then I got up, found the biscuit cutter and the attachment, and made doughnuts. Mama left me many legacies in many ways, but when I think of her in the kitchen, this is what comes to mind.Taste of HomeWe like grilling because it's a no-fuss way to make a meal. This pleasing campfire potatoes recipe is one we use often! The onion, cheddar cheese and Worcestershire sauce combine to make a super side dish for any grilled meat. Plus, cooking in the foil makes cleanup a breeze. —JoAnn Dettbarn, Brainerd, MinnesotaFood.comI started off by searching 'zaar for a different mint potato recipe but to no avail, so thought I'd better post the simple and tasy way that I cook them. I eat with the skins on but they can of course be removed (it's probably easier to remove the skin after cooking and it stops them falling apart while boiling).Food.comPotatis Platter This is my Aunt Eva's recipe. My kids love these with maple syrup and my Dad asked for them all the time. They are usually a little wet after mixing which makes it easy to "plop" them on a hot griddle and pat them out a bit. Filling and delicious! If you find you are having problems with soggy pancakes, you might want to put your grated taters in a cloth and squeeze as much of the water out of them as you can. You can also soak the grate in cold water, then wring them out. For OAMC: brown the patties well but don't cook them all the way through. Flash freeze individually and keep in a ziplock bag in the freezer. They will keep for quite a long time. To use: thaw desired number of patties and reheat them in a hot frying pan with a bit of oil or on a greased griddle.Food.comThis sounds like such a simple recipe that many people pass it up ...DON'T! Cooking new potatoes this way makes them taste wonderful, especially with butter. You must have a cast iron pan to do this. The stovetop browning makes the skins crunchy and out of this world.
