Gratin from potatoes The French word gratin has many different meanings, including culinary values. Therefore, dishes baked with sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese or breadcrumbs, in the place of which an appetizing crust is formed, it is more correct to call "o-gratin". It is with this prefix that these dishes are designated in the restaurant menus and recipes. For the preparation of any gritene, including gritene from potatoes, it is very important to choose the correct time and temperature regime. First, the dish is brought to almost ready at a moderate temperature, and only then it is increased to achieve a golden crusty crust on its surface. Gratin from potatoes can be cooked in the oven, on the grill and even in the microwave, if it has a "microwave + grill" mode. Previously, in France, this dish was often served by royalty, and called it pre-fin. It is in this recipe that it is recommended to add a grated nutmeg to the sauce, and rub garlic on the frying pan before laying potatoes in it. We just added chopped garlic in creamy sauce - it turned out not less delicious. If desired, you can stir in cream and some more grated cheese, chopped dill or your favorite spices.
Ingredients:- Potatoes 700 g
- Cream 500 ml
- Ground nutmeg 1 tsp.
- Garlic 3 denticles
- Cheese hard 150 g
- Butter 10 g
- Pepper black ground 2 pinch
- Salt 2 pinch
- Step 1 For the preparation of gratin, we take potatoes, garlic, hard cheese, spices and cream with 10% fat content.
- Step 2 Peel the garlic and cut into thin plates.
- Step 3 Pour the cream into a saucepan, add chopped garlic, nutmeg, salt and black ground pepper - bring to a boil and remove from heat.
- Step 4 Peel potatoes, wash well and cut into thin plates.
- Step 5 Grease the baking dish with butter. Pour the potatoes in layers, pouring cream sauce.
- Step 6 So put all the potatoes and pour it with cream. Put the oven in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 35-45 minutes.
- Step 7 Grate the hard cheese on a fine grater.
- Step 8 When the potatoes become soft, get it and sprinkle it abundantly with grated cheese.
- Step 9 And then put another 5-10 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C to get a golden crust.