Like my struggles with rice and garlic bread, Potato Gratin is one of those dishes that I have failed to get just right over the years. Whichever method I tried, it never turned out quite right, overdone, underdone, too dry, too wet, never exactly what I wanted. So I was rummaging around for another recipe for another attempt to go with my overpriced, but very lovely, piece of striploin steak (the perfect steak is another thing I have only recently mastered and I’m properly middle-aged) when I came across Nigella Lawson’s take on this particular classic.
Nigella to the rescue. Her recipe has you cook the, not too fussily, sliced potatoes on the hob in a mix of cream, milk, garlic and onions before decanting to an ovenproof dish and browning it off with a quick flash in a hot oven.
Though I adapted it slightly, it worked perfectly and I was completely happy with a gratin I had produced for the first time ever!
This is scaled down from Nigella’s recipe with some other minor alterations. I would imagine you can fiddle about with it yourself and it will still work just fine.
The amounts here would feed two, or just yourself and you can eat the other half the next day.
Serve with whatever you fancy, mine was a perfect piece of steak (balls to veganuary) some sauteed mushrooms and a cheeky Rioja (balls to dry January).
Delicious, a lot tastier than my crappy pic would lead you to believe.
Thank you Nigella.