Pommes dauphinoise

Name: Pommes dauphinoise
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 900 g potatoes, sliced as thinly as possible (processor is ideal); 175 g grated Cantal or Comté cheese (or Cheddar) (optional); 1 large clove garlic; 500 ml milk or half milk, half cream; plenty of black pepper, ground nutmeg and a pinch of cayenne; 1 tsp salt

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in the Tarn

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

About

I must have tried more than 20 different methods of making everyone’s favourite potato dish, and this is the best.

Ingredients

1 large clove garlic
500 ml milk or half milk,

Europe
France
Side dish
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

If baking in a dish, cut the garlic in half and rub the dish with it, then crush the garlic and put in a large saucepan. After a few minutes, when the garlic-rubbed dish has dried, butter the dish well. If baking in a tin, line with baking paper or foil (foil will need buttering), and simply crush the garlic directly into the saucepan.

Add all ingredients except cheese to the saucepan a