Graten from potatoes

Gratins are vegetable, meat, fish and mushrooms, and also sweet. These dishes are cooked in the oven using different sauces, cheese, breadcrumbs. A distinctive feature of any gratin is the appetizing crust on the prepared dish.

Graten from potatoes in the French version sounds like Gratin de pommes de terre and it is prepared in cheese sauce. To prepare this amazing dish you will need 4 large potatoes, 2.2 glasses of milk, flour, butter or vegetable oil, onion, 2.5 cups of grated cheese. Gratin from potatoes, the recipe of which can be found even in old culinary books, is best combined with such sorts of cheese as cheddar or parmesan.

Peeled potatoes are cut into slices 0.3-0.4 cm thick, onion - thin rings. For this operation, you can use a special grater, then the circles will turn out to be thin and of equal thickness. This will have a positive effect on the already prepared dish. The oven must be preheated to a temperature of 215 degrees. Form the baking grease with oil and put in it half the potatoes. A layer of onions are laid out on top, followed by the remaining potatoes. Gratin from potato is filled with cheese sauce.

To prepare the sauce, it is necessary to melt a tablespoon of butter in a saucepan and fry a little flour on it. After add the milk and cheese and stir for 1 minute. Then the mixture cool down a little.

Gratin from potatoes can also be prepared in a slightly different way. To do this, cook the sauce from butter, flour and milk, and sprinkle the cheese with the potatoes already in the baking dish. Bake the dish about 40 minutes before soft and the appearance of a delicious crust. Gratin from potatoes can be sprinkled with breadcrumbs and baked. The dish, of course, is not dietary, but it is impossible to break away from it.

Gratin from potatoes with meat can be prepared with pork, turkey or chicken. It will take 600 grams of meat, broth or hot water, a bulb, 6 large potatoes, sour cream or mayonnaise, spicy herbs. Well combined with this dish is basil, thyme and marjoram. You can also use the usual dill and parsley. Potatoes are cut into thin slices, roughly like chips, laid out in a mold and filled with broth or water. It is necessary to try and cut the tubers with very thin circles, otherwise the unbaked pieces may remain. On top of the potatoes laid a layer of onions. The meat is cut into cubes and fried for several minutes on a hot frying pan until a crust appears. Then spreads along with the herbs on a layer of onions. On the surface of the casserole, it is necessary to evenly distribute sour cream or mayonnaise. You can use a mixture of mayonnaise with sour cream. Bake at 210 degrees for about 1.6 hours. A few minutes before the preparation of gratin from potatoes can be sprinkled with grated cheese. Instead of sour cream, you can use fatty cream. In this case, the taste of the dish will be much more refined.

Very delicious turns gratin from seafood. For its preparation you need to take 0.5 kg of seafood cocktail, clove of garlic, half a cup of fat cream, 1 tsp. Soy dark sauce, 100 grams of cheese. Seafood defrost. In a frying pan fry the finely chopped chives, add seafood, cook for a few minutes. Add soy sauce and cream, a little stew until the liquid evaporates. Seafood, put in a mold for a julienne or chill mold, sprinkle with cheese on top. Bake for a few minutes in a microwave oven or oven before melting the cheese. In a similar way, you can prepare gratin from mussels or squid, which must be cleaned and boiled in advance for 2 minutes.

Bon Appetit.