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Old Fashioned Scalloped Potatoes
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 hour 15 mins
Yield: 8 Servings
Category: Side
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
source:https://dishesanddustbunnies.com
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 hour 15 mins
Yield: 8 Servings
Category: Side
INGREDIENTS
- 3 lbs potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/4″ thick (I use a mandoline slicer like this one to do the job)
- 1 medium onion, chopped small
- 2 cloves garlic, grated finely
- 3 tbsp butter
- 4 tbsps all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 cups milk
- 3 1/3 cups extra sharp cheddar cheese
- Chopped fresh parsley, for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 425°F.
- Grease a 9″x13″ glass baking dish with butter and set aside.
- Prepare the potatoes by peeling and slicing to 1/4″ thick. While you prepare the rest of the recipe, allow the potato slices to sit in a large mixing bowl filled with cold water. It's important not to skip this step – keeping the potatoes in water while preparing the rest of the recipe will prevent them from turning brown from air exposure. This will also remove any excess starch.
- In a medium saucepan on medium heat, melt the butter.
- Add the onions to the pot and cook for about 5 minutes until softened.
- Add the garlic to the pot and cook for about 1 minute.
- Add the flour, salt and pepper to the pot and combine with the butter mixture using a whisk.
- Cook for about 6 minutes or until everything thickens up. You may need to increase the heat a little. Also make sure you continually whisk so nothing burns or sticks to the pot.
- Once the contents of the pot of cooked and thicken up a bit, pour the milk into the pot.
- Increase the heat to high, and bring the contents of the pot to a boil. Stir the pot with the whisk as it cooks for about 5 minutes more. The milk mixture should start to thicken up a bit.
- Turn down the heat to LOW.
- Add 3 cups of the shredded cheese to the pot and continue to stir, allowing the cheese to melt.
- Turn off the heat and remove from the stove.
- Into the glass baking dish, layer half of the potato slices evenly on top of each other.
- Pour half of the cheese sauce mixture from the pot over the potato slices. Try to make sure the sauce is poured evenly.
- On top of the cheese sauce layer the remaining half of the potato slices like you did before.
- Pour the remaining cheese sauce evenly over the potato slices.
- Sprinkle the top with the remaining 1/2 cup of shredded cheese.
- Place into the oven to bake uncovered for 1 hour.
- The top should become golden.
- Set the dish on the counter to cool down for about 5 minutes before serving. It's going to be very hot as soon as it comes out of the oven, so be careful! 😀
- Sprinkle the top with some chopped fresh parsley for garnish.
- We enjoy this as a side with pork chops, baked chicken, and more
source:https://dishesanddustbunnies.com