Gratin is a French dish served in restaurants, translated as casserole. Gratin consists of layers of potatoes baked in a fragrant creamy sauce with lots of spices. The casserole can be supplemented with bacon, mushrooms or meat ingredients to create a more satisfying classic treat.
Potato casserole serves as a main or side dish, served as a side dish for meat or fish. It’s worth starting its production by preparing the products. You will need potatoes, cream or milk, nutmeg and hard cheese. These four components are basic and classic, but they can be varied with auxiliary ones - minced meat, bacon, chicken or herbs.
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How make a classic potato gratin: take the tubers raw or pre-boiled, cut into slices, lay in layers and pour in a sauce of cream and spices. Then there are several ways - put the dish in the oven to bake or use the modern assistant of many housewives - a multicooker. If you take pre-boiled potatoes, you can make the dish in the microwave.
Classical potato gratin in the ovenbaked in a heat-resistant dish, greased with butter to prevent the contents from burning. It is recommended to preheat the oven to 150-160 degrees. The potatoes are cut into thin slices, seasoned with garlic, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Then it is poured with creamy sauce and baked for about 40 minutes. To create a beautiful crust, cheddar is used: sprinkle the dish with shavings five minutes before cooking, increasing the heating temperature to 200 degrees.
Can be madeclassic potato gratin in a slow cooker, but then it will not be so fried, and the golden crust will not be crunchy. The multicooker is a universal assistant, so if there is no oven, it will help out the housewife. The prepared potatoes are placed in a bowl, poured with cream and thyme sauce and baked in the baking mode for 40 minutes. If you cut the potatoes into thick slices, the cooking time will increase to an hour. Add cheese 10 minutes before cooking for a rich flavor.
Any home cook will findpotato gratin recipe, suitable for him in all respects and level of training. This delicacy is easy to prepare, because it does not require specific knowledge. You can choose a classic potato gratin with sauce, egg, cheese or breadcrumbs. If the treat is planned for a feast, you can season it with aromatic alcohol (for example, add a spoonful of cognac to the sauce or boil cream with white wine).
Potato gratin with cheese and creamis a classic representative of French cuisine. This is a high-calorie casserole with a rich taste and soft texture. A simple step-by-step recipe will teach you how to cook it, which uses two types of cheese - brie with noble white mold and any other hard one. It is better to take cream with 10-15% fat content so that the food does not become too greasy.
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Chicken gratinIt has a richer taste, which is emphasized by the added champignons and hard cheese. An appetizing classic delicacy will serve as a wonderful dinner for the whole family and will even decorate a festive feast. It is best served with fresh herbs.
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Classical potato gratin with mushroomsin French, it is a fragrant, mouth-watering delicacy rich in spices. For cooking you will need any mushrooms - it will be delicious with champignons or oyster mushrooms, and with selected porcini or aspen mushrooms. The taste will be more refined if you add chanterelles. The sauce is full-fat whole milk with garlic, onions and seasonings.
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How to cook a classicgratin with meat, will explain the recipe in detail with photos. An exquisite delicacy worthy of any restaurant cuisine, it turns out tasty and satisfying. If you are preparing it for a feast and treating friends, then it is better to take noble meat - veal, lamb or duck; for the everyday menu, beef, rabbit or pork is suitable. It is advisable to use Parmesan cheese, but you can get by with any other hard cheese.
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Traditional gratin with minced meat and potatoesattracts with an appetizing crispy crust formed when hard cheese melts. It is optimal to use Gruyère for a spectacular dish, but due to its high cost, it is not suitable for every family. It can be replaced with any other. The pleasant taste of the classic delicacy is ensured by the addition of cognac, herbs and yogurt.
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Classical French potato gratin with baconis a hearty but light dinner that exudes an attractive flavor due to the use of smoked meats and garlic. It's best to use raw bacon, but cooked smoked bacon is also suitable. The sauce is made from milk and cream with a fat content of 15-22% (but no fatter).
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How to cook potato gratin with sour cream,described in detail in the instructions below. It helps to make a tasty, pleasant delicacy with a traditional set of ingredients, the sauce for which is rich sour cream. It makes a classic gratin crispy, flavorful and soft. The combination of garlic, nutmeg and hard cheese gives the food a special chic.
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To make it classicFrench-style potato gratinwith the correct consistency and pronounced aroma, you should use the recommendations of professionals:
Ecology of consumption. Food and Recipes: Is there really a “wrong” potato gratin? I'm not really sure...
Is there really a “wrong” potato gratin? I'm not sure, actually. It seems to me that if you take potatoes, cut them, drown them in cream and grated cheese, and bake it all, the result will be delicious no matter what.
Gratin is a very basic dish. Extremely simple. Insanely delicious. Incredibly high in calories. And very satisfying. Prepare it for those you love. If they don’t love you yet, once they try the recipe, they will definitely love you.
There are plenty of gratin recipes on the Internet. At one time, I stopped following recipes and started preparing dishes “by eye,” often with varying degrees of success.
What I wanted: tenderness and creamy consistency, light aroma from seasonings and dense texture (so that the gratin can be beautifully cut and served).
What happened sometimes: burnt cream, too much butter, crumbly consistency. Tasty, but not that good.
Gratin, in the end, taught me how to cook at culinary school and revealed several secrets. Without any remorse, I share my secrets with you - everyone has the right to know how to cook delicious food.
Prepare the gratin by covering the pan tightly with foil. We don't want the water to just evaporate in the oven. Instead, we need to store it in a dish.
If you want to add variety to your gratin, use a combination with other vegetables: sweet potatoes, parsnips, celery root. The basic rule is two layers of potatoes, the third layer is vegetable.
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1. Whisk together the cream, milk, crushed garlic, ½ teaspoon salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of nutmeg.
2. Grease the baking dish well with butter. Partially layering the potato pieces on top of each other, line the pan with a potato layer. Lightly salt. Add two more layers of potatoes, then add a third of the milk and cream sauce.
3. Repeat with the remaining potatoes and pour the remaining sauce into the pan. Cover the pan with foil and bake in the oven for 45-60 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, check the potatoes are done and let the gratin sit for 10 minutes. Cut the gratin into desired shapes and serve as a side dish.
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In the traditional version, in the last minutes of preparing the gratin, it is sprinkled with sharp grated cheese - Gruyere, for example. I find the cheese overpowers the delicate flavor of the potatoes and don't use it. But if you like melted cheese (who doesn't?), then add it in the last 10 minutes of cooking (you will need about 50 grams of grated cheese) and cook without foil at a temperature of 200 degrees (the main temperature for cooking gratin is 160 degrees). published
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Gratin is a dish that was born in France and has gained popularity all over the world. If you want to prepare something sophisticated and very tasty from ordinary products, make a potato gratin.
The classic potato gratin recipe takes about an hour to prepare. The calorie content of the dish is 1000 kcal. Makes 6 servings in total. Choose medium fat cream.
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You can also make potato gratin by layering the ingredients in a dish.
Potato gratin with mushrooms and chicken takes an hour and a half to prepare. Since the potatoes need to be cut into thin slices, use a grater.
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2018-03-15
Hello my dear readers! I sincerely apologize for not writing anything for so long. I’m going through a very difficult time right now - I’m busy with a new project, I’m running a column on Irina Zaitseva’s blog. But today I left everything and brought you a wonderful recipe. We will prepare a classic potato gratin in several ways.
At the beginning of March, when snowdrops were already blooming everywhere, winter arrived with severe frosts for us. And I immediately wanted some kind of winter, very cozy, hot and aromatic potato dish. Most often we bake potatoes, cut into thick rounds, on a large hot cast iron sheet in a gazebo in the yard.
But baking potatoes outside at minus fifteen seemed too cynical to me. And then I remembered about gratin - it’s been so long since I cooked it! Nothing can be tastier than a hot potato gratin and a glass of cold white wine! I have accumulated quite a few recipes for classic gratin. I rummaged through my treasures and settled on an untested recipe, obtained a long time ago, but somehow not useful until now.
What attracted me most about this recipe was that there were no unnecessary movements with pre-boiling, washing and drying the potato circles. It seemed really lazy to me to do all this. I had to pay for my laziness with a rather long wait - a classic raw potato gratin took about two hours to cook in my gas oven (thanks to you know who for the terrible quality of gas in Ukraine).
We will cook gratin in the oven. But it tastes best in the oven. If you are the proud owner of a stove in which you can cook, then you are extremely lucky!
Wash the potatoes, peel them, wipe dry, cut them into thin slices on a mandolin or other suitable kitchen gadget.
Grate the cheese into a wide bowl, set about a third aside for sprinkling the top. Pour salt, black pepper, thyme into the same bowl, pour in cream, add finely chopped and additionally crushed garlic, stir.
Dip potato mugs into all this luxury, separate them from each other and thoroughly coat each one with cream.
Stack the potatoes in piles 5-6 cm long and place them “on edge” in a fireproof dish that has been well greased with butter.
Pour in the remaining cream so that it covers three-quarters of the potato layer.
Cover the pan with foil and place in the oven at 200°C. After half an hour, remove the foil. In the photo - after half an hour.
Place the gratin in the oven for another half hour.
After this time, pour the reserved third mixture of cheeses over the gratin.
Bake for another thirty minutes. Now you need to carefully pull out the baked potato circle and try it. If it is soft and tasty, then the gratin is ready! I had to finish baking because the oven did not want to heat up to the desired temperature. Here is the result in the photo. Sorry, I took it in the evening in very poor light.
Yulia Vysotskaya's classic recipe contains no spices at all. Brie cheese plays the leading role here - its aroma is very specific and rich, and its creamy structure is magnificent! Without this ingredient, you won’t get a gratin with exactly the taste that Julia intended.
Slice the potatoes into thin disks using any suitable kitchen gadget - a mandoline, a food processor or a simple old-fashioned metal grater (remember, there are wide transverse cutters on one side). Pour boiling water in a saucepan so that it completely covers the potatoes. Bring to a boil, cook for two minutes.
While the gratin potatoes are cooking, melt a tablespoon of olive oil in 60-70 g of butter.
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You can use absolutely any hard cheese. Even the weathered remains of various cheeses that linger in your refrigerator will do.
Add 160 ml of cream, grated hard cheese to the melted butter, stir, and add a little salt if necessary.
Drain the water from the potatoes. Grease an oven safe pan with olive oil or butter. Place half of the potato discs into the pan, carefully fan them out in a circle and fill the middle of the pan.
Pour half of the mixture of grated cheese, cream and butter onto the potato layer. Fan out the remaining potatoes and pour out the remaining filling. Place slices of Brie cheese on top.
Place our future gratin in the oven at 200°C for thirty to thirty-five minutes. Take out the gratin, taste the potatoes - if they are soft, then the dish is ready. Leave the gratin to sit for a couple of minutes and serve this incomparable dish with a glass of cool white wine. Divine! Thank you, Julia!
Madame Selvi's gratin is mind-blowingly delicious. I got the recipe from my friend, who lived in Nice for a long time. Madame Selvi was her neighbor and the owner of a tiny cafe with a six-course menu. But what kind!
Mix cream with grated nutmeg. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
Grease the form in which we will bake potato gratin with oil and rub with a cut clove of garlic.
Grate the potatoes into thin slices, pour boiling water over them, cook for three minutes over low heat, drain the water.
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You can make a lighter version of Madame Selvi's potato gratin with milk instead of cream.
Bake in the oven at 200°C for about 30-40 minutes.
Serve as a side dish - with grilled meat, chicken or as a separate dish.
Wash and peel the potatoes, cut into thin slices. Boil in boiling water for two minutes, drain.
Wash the zucchini, cut into thin slices, wipe them dry, and fry on the grill or in a dry frying pan. Don't let them fall apart.
Melt butter and olive oil in a saucepan, add flour, fry together for thirty seconds, pour in hot milk, stir until smooth. Cook for 5 minutes over low heat, avoiding burning. Add grated nutmeg, a little salt, stir.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. Add half to the sauce and set aside half.
Place a layer of potatoes in a greased dish, add a layer of zucchini, pepper, and pour in a third of the sauce. Repeat layers again. Pour the sauce on top and sprinkle with the reserved cheese.
Place the mold in the oven at 200°C. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Sprinkle the finished gratin with zucchini with fresh herbs.
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Step-by-step preparation of potato gratin (classic recipe):
A step-by-step recipe for French potato gratin - a delicious dish served in the best restaurants in France. Moreover, this dish can easily be prepared at home yourself.
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