Smashed Roast Potato and Thyme Gratin
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 60 g butter (2 ounces)
- 1 medium brown onion, sliced thinly (150g or just under 5 ounces)
- 1 leek, white and inner green tender leaves, thinly sliced
- 2 -4 garlic cloves, crushed
- 600 g roast potatoes, cut into halves (just over 19 ounces)
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1 cup milk (250ml/8 fl.oz. )
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme, finely chopped
- sea salt, to taste (add with caution as the potatoes were undoubtedly salted when first cooked)
- fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- 1⁄2 cup sunflower seeds (optional)
- 2 slices rindless bacon, fat removed, chopped
- 1 cup cheddar cheese, coarsely grated (120g or just under 4 ounces)
directions
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced/400°F/gas mark 6; oil four 1-cup (250ml/8 fluid ounce) shallow ovenproof baking dishes.
- Melt 10g of the butter in a medium saucepan; cook the onion, leek and garlic, stirring, until softened.
- Meawhile, use a potato masher to gently crush the potato in a large bowl; stir in the onion, leek, garlic mixture.
- Melt the remaining butter in the same pan, add flour; cook, stirring, until the mixture thickens and bubbles; gradually stir in the milk; cook, stirring, until the white sauce boils and thickens; remove the pan from the heat; sir in the thyme and half the cheese.
- Stir the white sauce into the potato mixture; spoon the gratin mixture into the prepared dishes; sprinkle each with the chopped and grated cheese.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or until lightly browned and the bacon is crisp.
- NOTE: What Australians call a brown onion is what Americans call a yellow onion, and I'm not sure what everyone else calls them. For some reason - though I've done so in the past - I wasn't able to include this in the ingredients.
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