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Tested and perfected, this classical Scalloped Potatoes layers sliced potatoes and onions pinch an easy homemade pick sauce. It’s baked until aureate and bubbly.

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  • Flavor: Creamy and somewhat buttery, this is simply a existent scalloped murphy look pinch a creamy achromatic sauce, onion, and butter.
  • Prep ahead: These tin beryllium prepared a mates of days up of time. I’ve included directions successful nan look notes.
  • Recommended tools: A mandoline will make for moreover slices and prevention tons of prep time.
  • Kitchen tip: Scalloped potatoes will clasp their power for up to 45 minutes, truthful hole them early if you request nan oven space.
  • Recipe tip: Let them cool for astatine slightest 20 minutes earlier serving truthful nan condiment thickens.
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Ingredient Tips For Scalloped Potatoes

This Scalloped Potato look uses elemental ingredients.

  • PotatoesI usage Yukon golden aliases reddish potatoes for scalloped potatoes. They person bladed skins, truthful they don’t request to beryllium peeled, and they will clasp their shape. Russet aliases Idaho potatoes tin beryllium utilized and should beryllium peeled; they won’t clasp their style arsenic good but still sensation great.
  • Onion: Use either achromatic aliases yellowish bulb to spirit nan sauce. Soften nan bulb successful food to bring retired nan earthy sweetness.
  • Sauce: Milk makes nan condiment creamy without being excessively rich | aliases heavy. Broth whitethorn not beryllium traditional, but it adds spirit and brackish to nan sauce. I for illustration chickenhearted broth, but rootlike broth tin beryllium used.
  • Seasonings: Since this is simply a classical scalloped murphy recipe, nan seasonings are simple. Salt, pepper, onion, and garlic—be judge to brackish each furniture of potatoes, too.
  • Variation: Add ½ spoon of dried thyme, crushed rosemary, aliases 1 tablespoonful caller parsley aliases chives to nan flour.

Serving suggestions: Serve these Scalloped Potatoes adjacent to baked ham for Easter aliases Christmas, alongside meatloaf for Sunday supper.

Uncooked onions, butter, ail successful a mini cookware for making scalloped potatoes sauce
Flour connected apical of cooked onions successful a mini cookware for making scalloped potatoes sauce
Adding beverage to cooked onions successful a mini cookware for making scalloped potatoes sauce

The main quality betwixt scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin is nan cheese. Scalloped potatoes don’t mostly incorporate food (although you tin adhd food if you’d like).

This look has a creamy bulb sauce; food tin beryllium added for an au gratin version—check nan look notes for tips.

Steps for Scalloped Potatoes (overview)

Making scalloped potatoes from scratch takes time, but it is easy. There are 4 basal steps:

  1. Slice potatoes: Thinly portion nan potatoes (a mandoline is helpful).
  2. Prepare sauce: Make nan homemade condiment (recipe below).
  3. Assemble: Layer nan potatoes and condiment successful a baking dish.
  4. Bake: Cover and cook to make nan potatoes tender. Uncover and cook to create a aureate brownish topping.
Thinly sliced potatoes successful a achromatic casserole crockery adjacent to sauce
A ladle pouring scalloped potatoes condiment complete thinly sliced potatoes
unbaked scalloped potatoes successful a baking dish

How to Freeze Scalloped Potatoes

To frost scalloped potatoes, navigator them for 25 minutes little than nan look requires. Cool completely, past screen tightly and freeze. To cook, thaw nan potatoes successful nan fridge overnight and travel nan directions below, adding 20 minutes to nan covered cooking time.

Leftovers & Storage

Store leftover scalloped potatoes successful nan fridge for up to 4 days. They tin beryllium reheated successful nan microwave aliases oven. Chopped scalloped potatoes make awesome meal potatoes cooked until crisp successful a nonstick skillet.

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Scalloped Potatoes

Scalloped potatoes are a creamy baked crockery made pinch thinly sliced potatoes layered successful a rich | condiment cleanable arsenic a comforting broadside for immoderate meal.

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Resting clip 15 minutes

Total Time 2 hours

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  • ¼ cup salted butter
  • 1 large yellow onion diced
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 ¼ teaspoon salt divided
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper divided
  • 3 pounds Yukon golden potatoes or reddish potatoes, *see notes, sliced astir ⅛-inch thick
  • Preheat nan oven to 350°F. Grease a 9×13-inch baking crockery and group aside.

To Make nan Sauce

  • In a ample saucepan, melt nan food complete medium-low heat. Add nan bulb and ail and navigator until nan bulb originates to soften, astir 3 to 4 minutes. Stir successful nan flour and navigator for 2 minutes more. 

  • Combine nan beverage and broth. Gradually adhd it to nan flour mixture, whisking until soft aft each addition. It will beryllium very heavy astatine first; proceed adding a small spot of liquid astatine a clip while whisking.

  • Once each of nan liquid has been added, summation nan power to mean and bring to a boil while whisking. Stir successful ½ spoon brackish and ⅛ spoon capsicum and fto nan condiment boil for 1 minute.

To Assemble nan Potatoes

  • Layer ⅓ of nan potatoes successful nan prepared dish, seasoning pinch ¼ spoon brackish and ⅛ spoon pepper. Pour ⅓ of nan pick condiment complete top. 

  • Repeat nan layers, including brackish and pepper, ending pinch sauce. Cover tightly pinch aluminum foil and cook for 45 minutes.

  • Uncover and cook for an further 35-45 minutes aliases until aureate brownish and potatoes are tender. Broil for 3-4 minutes if desired.

  • Allow nan potatoes to remainder for astatine slightest 20 minutes earlier serving.

Potatoes: Yellow aliases reddish potatoes do not request to beryllium peeled. Russets aliases baking potatoes should beryllium peeled. Russet potatoes whitethorn not clasp their style arsenic good arsenic waxy potatoes. 

Cheese: Up to 2 cups of shredded food tin beryllium added to nan condiment aliases betwixt nan layers of potatoes. Remove nan condiment from nan power aft boiling, and whisk successful nan cheese. Do not boil nan cheese, aliases it whitethorn separate. I urge a bold food specified arsenic crisp cheddar aliases gruyere.

Sauce: Herbs specified arsenic caller thyme aliases minced rosemary tin beryllium added if desired. The condiment will thicken arsenic nan potatoes rest. 

To Make up (up to 48 hours)

  1. Prepare the potatoes arsenic directed successful nan recipe.
  2. Bake nan crockery covered for 50-60 minutes.
  3. Remove from nan oven and cool wholly connected nan antagonistic (leave them covered; nan steam will thief decorativeness cooking). Cover and refrigerate.
  4. On nan time of serving, region from nan fridge astatine slightest 30 minutes earlier baking. Bake uncovered for astir 35 to 40 minutes aliases until heated through.

Calories: 286 | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 30mg | Sodium: 484mg | Potassium: 1122mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 465IU | Vitamin C: 30.8mg | Calcium: 179mg | Iron: 7.7mg

Nutrition accusation provided is an estimate and will alteration based connected cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

Course Casserole, Side Dish

Cuisine American

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Holly Nilsson is nan creator of Spend With Pennies, wherever she creates easy, comforting recipes made for existent life. With a passion for nostalgic flavors and simplified techniques, Holly helps engaged location cooks create delicious meals that ever work. She is besides nan writer of “Everyday Comfort,” which promises to animate moreover much hearty, home-cooked meals.
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