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Dauphinoise Potatoes

Rowland Coping



France has produced a plethora of wonderful things for us to eat; for example I can't recommend the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris enough.

Dauphinoise potatoes are, perhaps, the most mysterious of these dishes. Somehow the humble potato is transformed into a rich, tasty and spectacular crowd pleaser.

Cookery Corner has only experienced a truly marvellous version of this once, and you'll be glad to know this recipe isn't it.

Nope, Cookery Corner has attempted to recreate this dish blind based on what it tastes like, and, thanks to this website, so can you! Good luck and all that!


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Ingredients

- 6-8 medium potatoes

- 600ml (the big one) double cream

- 2-3 cloves garlic

- fresh grated nutmeg

- 170g gruyere cheese

Preparation:

1) First up turn your oven on to about 180-190 degrees.

2) Peel your potatoes, and slice them into about 2mm thick slices. As thin as possible in other words. It may take a while.

3) Grate all of the cheese.

4) Chop the garlic super fine, or use a crusher thingy if you have one. Damn I make it sound so simple.


Cooking:

1) Take a large oven dish, much like you might use for a lasagne. If that helps.

2) Pile up the thinly sliced potatoes about 2 deep.

3) Cover the potatoes lightly with cheese and garlic, and pour some cream over the top, then and grate nutmeg on top if you fancy it/have any/can be bothered.

4) Do it again.

5) Continue this process until you either run out of potatoes or your dish fills up.

6) Top up with the what's left of the cream. It won't cover the potatoes , but that doesn't matter because it all bubbles up.

7) Grate some Nutmeg and put whatever cheese is left on top.

8) Cover with foil and cook in the oven for about 40 minutes.

9) Remove the foil to allow it to brown. This normally takes about 20 minutes but keep an eye on it!


Summary

Oooh la la!  Serve this with whatever you like.  Although I recommend steak.  Of course I do.  
Plus somtimes Cookery Corner likes to just eat it out of the dish, because we can.



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