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Gratin dauphinois

The real French potato gratin, no cheese: meltingly soft potatoes in garlicky cream, baked until golden.

Gratin dauphinois
Photo: File:Gratin dauphinois.jpg, Ludovic Péron · CC BY-SA 3.0

⏱ 75 min🍽 Serves 6

Ingredients

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 180 °C. Rub a baking dish with the cut garlic clove, then butter it.
  2. Peel the potatoes and slice them 3 mm thick, without rinsing.
  3. Put them in a pan with the milk, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, and cook gently for 10 minutes, stirring carefully.
  4. Tip everything into the dish and pour over the cream.
  5. Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until golden on top and a knife slides in easily.

💡 Tip : Do not rinse the slices: their starch thickens the cream.

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