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Dinner · 50 min · 6 as a side

Gratin dauphinois

Thin potatoes, garlic, cream, a whisper of nutmeg. No cheese if you are being orthodox; a little is fine. It should set, not soup.

The sheet · 6 as a side · 50 min

easy

Why tonight. Thin potatoes, garlic, cream, a whisper of nutmeg. No cheese if you are being orthodox; a little is fine. It should set, not soup.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • potato
  • cream
  • garlic
  • nutmeg

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: butter.

Method

  1. Slice the potatoes about the thickness of a nickel, on a mandoline if you own one. Do not rinse them — that starch is the thickener.
  2. Warm the cream with the garlic and nutmeg, and simmer the slices in it for ten minutes before they go in the dish.
  3. Layer them into a buttered dish with salt between the layers, cream to just below the top.
  4. Moderate oven, an hour, covered for the first half. Rest it twenty minutes before you cut it or it runs across the plate.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
cream
Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
nutmeg
Warm and slightly medicinal, and grating it fresh is the difference between a note and a whole flavor.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

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The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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