EASY YUMMY POTATO GRATIN. Easy Homemade Cheesy Potatoes au Gratin made with a homemade cheese sauce drizzled over thinly sliced potatoes and a layer of onions nestled in the middle. Plus a full blog hop Thanksgiving menu below to help plan your turkey day meal! These homemade au gratin potatoes are always welcome at our dinner table, and they're so simple to make.
Here's the best way to cook homemade au gratin potatoes at home before your holiday meal. Don't be intimidated by the name. Potatoes au gratin are actually really easy to master. You can cook EASY YUMMY POTATO GRATIN using 9 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of EASY YUMMY POTATO GRATIN
- You need of cheese sauce.
- It's 3 tbsp of plain flour.
- It's 1/2 stick of butter.
- It's 2 cup of milk.
- It's 1 cup of grated mozzarella cheese.
- Prepare of gratin.
- You need 1 head of onion, chopped.
- You need 3 medium of potatoes, thinly sliced.
- It's 3 slice of cheese slice.
Thinly sliced potatoes and onion are layered in a creamy cheese sauce creating the perfect au gratin potato recipe. I thought this recipe was very, very good. I will not make Au Gratin Potatoes from a box mix again! Potato gratin is one of those dishes that is so simple to make, but the results are fantastic.
EASY YUMMY POTATO GRATIN step by step
- Preheat oven to 200degrees celsius..
- Slice onions and potatoes..
- Grease gratin tin thoroughly with butter..
- Layer in potatoes & onions in following order: potato, onions, potato..
- Add butter into a saucepan and melt it..
- Then put in the flour and stir..
- Pour in milk and whisk to thicken the mixture..
- Once the milk has thickened in about 3 minutes, put in the grated cheese and stir vigorously for a minute to thicken and complete the cheese sauce..
- Pour cheese sauce onto prepared gratin tin. And top off with sliced cheese..
- Bake for 45 minutes in the oven at 200°F celsius..
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The best potatoes for a gratin are floury types such as King Edward or a Maris Piper or any potato recommended for mashing. This Potato Gratin is the perfect simple side dish for any type of meal, whether its weeknight dinners or holiday meals. Thin slices of Yukon gold potato are baked in cream, milk, two cheeses, garlic, and thyme, until bubbling and golden brown. Tender potatoes and onions smothered in a homemade cheese sauce are baked to perfection. It adds both extra texture and flavor with the crispy edges on the potatoes (and who doesn't love the crispy yummy cheesy bits)!!