Simple Two Potato Gratin Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Butter a medium gratin dish. Line bottom with a layer of Yukon Gold potatoes. Sprinkle with a little thyme and nutmeg. Season lightly with salt and pepper, and pour over a little cream. Add a layer of sweet potato slices, and repeat with the thyme, nutmeg, salt, pepper and cream. Continue layering, ending with sweet potatoes, thyme, nutmeg, salt, pepper and cream.
• Bake in oven for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Cover with aluminum foil if top gets too dark.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Stir in flour, salt and pepper until smooth. Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat; stir in cheese until melted. Add potatoes and onion., Transfer to a greased 2-qt. baking dish. Cover and bake 1 hour. Uncover; bake 30-40 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. If desired, top with additional pepper.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 2-quart casserole dish with cooking spray.
• In 1-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in flour; cook 1 minute. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly with whisk. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer uncovered 5 minutes. Stir in mustard, salt and pepper. Remove from heat; stir in cheeses until melted.
• Layer half of the potatoes in casserole; pour half of the sauce over potatoes. Repeat layers once.
• Cover; bake 30 minutes. Uncover; bake 30 minutes longer or until potatoes are tender and top is golden brown. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Place potatoes and sweet potatoes in a large baking dish. Mix in onion. Add 1 to 1 1/4 cups vegetable both.
• Bake in the preheated oven until potatoes start to soften, about 20 minutes. Remove from oven and add Gruyere cheese. Pour in more vegetable broth if casserole looks dry.
• Return to the oven and continue baking until potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Stir and serve hot.

Steps:

• Arrange half of russet potatoes in 8x8x2-inch glass baking dish. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle 1/4 of rosemary over. Top with half of sweet potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle 1/4 of rosemary over. Repeat layering with remaining russets and sweet potatoes, seasoning each layer with salt, pepper and 1/4 of rosemary. Pour cream over. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and microwave on High until potatoes are tender, about 18 minutes. Sprinkle both cheeses over potatoes. Microwave uncovered on high until cheeses melt and bubble, about 3 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.

Steps:

• After seasoning the roast (see recipe above), use the olive oil to grease a 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking dish. Layer the potatoes, overlapping them slightly, creating alternate rows of white and sweet potatoes. Season each layer lightly with salt and pepper. Pour the cream over the potatoes and sprinkle with garlic and nutmeg. Cover loosely with aluminum foil.
• Place the roast and the gratin in the oven and bake for 45 minutes. Uncover the potatoes and continue to bake for 15 minutes longer. Remove the gratin from the oven. Recover it to keep it warm and set aside while preparing veal sauce (see recipe above).
• The gratin should be cut into squares and served with the veal.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter a medium casserole dish.
• Layer 1/2 of the potatoes into bottom of the prepared casserole dish. Top with the onion slices, and add the remaining potatoes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• In a medium-size saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Mix in the flour and salt, and stir constantly with a whisk for one minute. Stir in milk. Cook until mixture has thickened. Stir in cheese all at once, and continue stirring until melted, about 30 to 60 seconds. Pour cheese over the potatoes, and cover the dish with aluminum foil.
• Bake 1 1/2 hours in the preheated oven.