No need to be exact here, just use about half the cream.Ĭheese slices – Top with a slice of cheese. Pour over cream – Drizzle about 1 teaspoon of cream over the potatoes. Assembling the gratin stacksįill halfway – Place a stack of potato slices in the muffin tin hole so they come up halfway.
Then add the cream and salt, and simmer for 30 seconds to bring the flavours together. We want to make sure the creamy sauce seeps between all the potato layers!Ĭream sauce – Melt the butter in a saucepan then sauté the garlic for 20 seconds or until it smells amazing. Separate slices – Use your fingers to separate the slices as they have a tendency to stick. Slice thinly – Using either a mandolin or a sharp knife, cut the potato into 2mm / 0.1″ thin slices. To fill a standard 12 hoc muffin tin, you will need 3 potato cylinders cut from 1.2 kg / 2.4 lb of potato. Potato cylinders – Repeat with remaining potato. Once they are cooked, you can’t really tell if your potatoes are a little more hexagon-y or octogon-y, or even rectangular or triangular!!!Ĭheck size – The cylinder should be the size of the muffin tin holes. It doesn’t matter if they are not a perfect round – mine aren’t!. Then trim the potato to make a (rough!) cylinder shape. Peel and trim – Peel the potatoes then cut the base so it is stable when standing upright. But it’s worth it – especially for the golden cheesy edges that you never get when you make one big gratin bake!! 1. Thyme – Classic herb flavouring for Dauphinoise.Īssembling each gratin stack does take a little more effort than making one big bubbly Dauphinoise for sharing. Garlic – For flavour, to infuse the cream sauce. Shredded and sliced – I find it best to use slices of cheese between the potato layers and shredded cheese on top.Ĭream – Thickened / heavy cream works best because it’s thicker so it pools on the layers better. I tend not to use mozzarella because it doesn’t have as much salt / flavour as other cheese but you can if you wish. Any cheese that melts will work just fine – cheddar, Colby, tasty cheese. Shape – Opt for long thin ones so you have less offcuts when trimmed into a cylinder shape to cut slices that fit the muffin thin.Ĭheese – Gruyere and Swiss cheese are my favourites here, for their melting quality and flavour. If you use waxy potatoes, the layers sort of slip apart when you cut into them. Sebago (the common dirt brushed potatoes in Australia), Russet (US), Dutch creams, King Edwards and red delight are all ideal. Potatoes – Use starchy or all-rounder ones so they become fluffy when cooked and absorb flavour. What you need to make Mini Potato Gratin Stacks No golden edges when you make Dauphinoise the usual way! But because you get the whole thing to yourself.īesides not having to share, making these in mini form means you get nice golden cheesy edges on each piece which might be my favourite part. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – everything is better in mini form, not just because it’s cute. BAM! That’s a home run right there!Īctually, they’re a mini version of French Potato Gratin / Dauphinoise. Potatoes + cheese + cream + garlic + butter.
So many possibilities! Mini Potato Gratin Stacks (Dauphinoise)Īll you need to know is that these Mini Potato Gratin Stacks are cheesy, creamy and ridiculously irresistible. Layers of thinly sliced potato baked in a muffin tin with cream, cheese, garlic and thyme, the best bit are the crusty caramelised cheesy edges! I can't give a show much more praise than that! You'll understand the scene I'm talking about when you see it.These adorable Potato Gratin Stacks are the mini version of Potatoes au Gratin (Dauphinoise). Not only did I stop working to watch this, I ran the last few minutes in slow motion to fully absorb what happened. To put in perspective, I usually work when I watch TV, don't really even 'watch' it, just background noise. I've never experienced this kind of life-style (ie mommy, daddy and school politics) but one of my clients who watches the show and lives in the general area said they nailed her experience when her kids were in school. Everyone involved in this from top to bottom hit it out of the park. I don't know why but I found this show completely and utterly mesmerizing, all the way down to the music and cinematography. Speaking of suck, I was completely sucked in on the first episode. I never heard of the book, but highly respect many of the lead actors so I figured if they were involved it couldn't totally suck. But when I saw the commercial for this I was intrigued.
I'm not a big fan of what apparently many other people like to watch.
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