Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes
Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, parmesan au gratin potatoes. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

The best potatoes to use for au gratin potatoes are russets; they have the most starch and make the creamiest sauce. You may be tempted to cut calories by How to make Potatoes Au Gratin. Begin by slicing the potatoes as thinly and uniformly as possible.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have parmesan au gratin potatoes using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes:
  1. Make ready 5 large un peeled red potatoes, cooked in beef broth until tender and cooled in broth until cool enough to handle or up to two hours. This makes very tender easy to cube potatoes.
  2. Take 3 tbsp flour
  3. Get 3 tbsp butter
  4. Make ready 1 cup chicken stock
  5. Get 1 cup heavy cream ; you can use whole milk or light cream but heavy cream makes the richest sauce!
  6. Make ready 1 small onion, finely chopped
  7. Take 2 garlic cloves, minced
  8. Make ready 1 tsp cajun seasoning
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp black pepper, and salt to taste
  10. Make ready 1 tsp hot sauce such as franks red hot, or what you like
  11. Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice
  12. Take 1/2 fresh grated parmesan or romano cheese
  13. Get 2 tbsp chopped parsley for garnish

This recipe represents my philosophy of cooking to its best - cooking with love. Letting the au gratin rest is very important. . . even though it is so delicious that you would want to jump right in. If you like onions, slice thinly and add in between the layers. The ingredients for Garlic Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes are potatoes, cheese, and heavy cream with additional flavors such as garlic and thyme.

Instructions to make Parmesan Au Gratin Potatoes:
  1. Remove cooled potatos from broth, peel and cut into 1inche cubes, set aside while making sauce.
  2. In a saucepan melt butter add onion and garlic and cook on low just to soften, do not brown, whisk in flour and cook on low 2 minutes, whisk in chicken stock and cream and all seasonings except cheese, stir and simmer until thickened, add cheese on low to melt, taste to see if salt, pepper or more lemon is needed. Add reserved potatos and heat through, Transfer hot to serving dish.
  3. Garnish with parsley
  4. This can be kept warm over a double boiler for at least an hour.
  5. So good with all roasted meats, grilled meats and fish!

It's important to use heavy cream instead of milk because the fat is important for the cheese sauce to bake properly. Otherwise, the sauce would be too thin and. AKA Scalloped Potatoes…AKA Au Gratin potatoes. I have made a variation of these before. One of the French variety I decided to just keep it super simple this time around and use majority of a super salty Parmesan and just some Gruyere to really seal the flavor deal.

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