Buttermilk Blue Cheese Potatoes Au Gratin
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
6-9
ingredients
- 7 large potatoes, peeled, parboiled, and thinly sliced
- 2 cups cooked broccoli, drained well (cooked only until firm-tender, but good to garnish with!) (optional)
- 1 cup monterey jack cheese, grated
- 1 1⁄2 cups coarsely crushed potato chips
- 1 1⁄2 cups canned sliced mushrooms
- 1 -2 tablespoon pimento pepper, sliced
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BUTTERMILK BLUE CHEESE SAUCE
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 -2 minced fresh garlic clove
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄2 cups half-and-half cream or 1 1/2 cups full-fat milk
- 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
- pepper
- 1⁄4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 -2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 2 -3 ounces crumbled blue cheese, divided
directions
- Make sure to parboil the potatoes until soft-firm.
- Butter a 2-1/2-quart shallow casserole dish.
- Set oven to 350°F.
- Arrange half of the sliced par-boiled potatoes in the bottom of the prepared dish.
- For the buttermilk-blue cheese sauce: melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat.
- Add in garlic and shallots; saute for 1 minute.
- Add/whisk in flour, whisk and stir for 3 minutes more.
- Pour in the half and half and room temperature buttermilk all at once; cook/whisk until sauce thicken and is bubbly.
- Remove from heat, and stir in pepper, mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, parsley and half of the blue cheese; mix well to combine.
- Layer all of the sliced mushrooms over the potatoes in the casserole dish; top with half of the cheese sauce, and distribute the grated jack cheese over the sauce.
- Layer remaining potatoes over the jack cheese and sauce.
- Spoon with remaining sauce on top.
- Sprinkle with remaining blue cheese.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the potato chips over top; return to oven for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and arrange the cooked broccoli around the edges of the casserole (if using) and garnish with pimento (if using); bake for 5 minutes longer.
- Absolutely delicious!
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