CREAMY SCALLOPED POTATOES - How to make SCALLOPED or AU GRATIN POTATOES Recipe

welcome i'm dorando with foods 101 today i have a youtube request my subscriber named linda in indiana would like to know how to make scalloped potatoes now to get these potatoes started you're going to need four cups of thinly sliced potatoes i've done this by hand but if you'd like to use a mandolin you can do that too it's about four potatoes this size i have two cups of Colby and Monterey Jack cheese 3 tablespoons of butter 3 tablespoons of flour 2 tablespoons of minced onions one and a half teaspoons of kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon of fresh cracked pepper and one and a half cups of milk so let's get this started and let's start to saute the butter and the flour together in a skillet or you may use a saucepan I'm melting the butter on medium-high heat I'm adding the flour to make a roux I'm going to cut the flour in the butter here for the next minute now we've got all that raw flour flavor cooked out and we're adding the minced onions that will give a nice flavor to these scalloped potatoes and next we're adding in that cup and a half of milk yeah yudish smell so delicious at this time I'm adding the salt and I'm adding the fresh cracked black pepper now you're going to continue stirring this until it comes to a boil its boiling so now we're going to turn the heat down to low and we're going to start adding in this fabulous cheese and we're going to make this ubi gooey delicious cheese sauce and you're just going to whisk this in until your cheese has blended very beautifully into your flour in your milk mixture here all right now I'm just going to go ahead and add the rest as you can see and once this is all melted in we're going to start layering the potatoes with this fabulous cheese sauce and that looks about perfect so now let's go back over here I've drained my potatoes and the reason I had them in water was to keep them from oxidizing and that means I didn't want turning brown so you want to make sure you drain all that water off before you start adding it into the bottom of your 1 quart baking pin here now I've lightly greased the bottom of the baking pan here and once we get our 1 layer of potatoes on the bottom we're going to use a ladle and I'm going to ladle in this fabulous cheese sauce as you can see and I'm only going to ladle in half because we're going to put another layer of potatoes on top of this okay that looks about right oh my gosh these are going to be show scrumptious thing you can have them with meatloaf you can have them with hamburgers you can have them with steaks they go great with everything all right now another layer of potatoes I've got my last layer of potatoes and cheese sauce on and now before we put it in that 350 degree preheated oven for the next hour I'm going to go ahead and put a layer of that shredded cheese on top so now off to the oven it goes for the next 1 hour just took the bubbly scalloped potatoes out of the oven I'm going to let them cool for about 20 minutes to 30 minutes and then I'll come back cut into it and tell you what's gonna be like gonna give these scalloped potatoes a try and who dickey their nice cheesy warm hmm oh I can already tell they're gonna be absolutely delicious all right let's give us a try oh the potatoes are absolutely perfectly tender got that cheese on there that's still a little warm give it a try mmm mmm those are absolutely fantastic mmm cheesy they're not dried out like you can get sometimes from those Scout potatoes nice and tender full of flavor hey you all it's a perfect side dish hope you give it a try I'm drawn with foods 101 and I'll catch you next time

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Length: 5min 9sec (309 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 21 2014