How to Bake Dauphinoise Potatoes With Coriander Carrots
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 1 hour
Ingredients needed to make Dauphinoise Potatoes With Coriander Carrots:
- 2 lb baking potatoes, peeled
- 4 garlic cloves
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 17 ½ fl oz double cream
For the coriander roots:
- 24 baby carrots, thinly sliced
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 oz butter
- 2 tbsp fresh cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Cooking instructions for Dauphinoise Potatoes With Coriander Carrots:
- Warm up your oven to 320 degrees F and dip the potatoes in a bowl of cold water to stop them from getting browned.
- Cut the potatoes into thin slices, each about ½’’ in thickness and place them in a bowl.
- Slice off either ends of the garlic cloves but leave them unpeeled.
- Grate them likewise in a grater so that only the flesh is grated and the skin will remain behind.
- Add the grated garlic to the bowl of sliced potatoes and sprinkle a dash of salt as well as generous amount of black pepper to taste.
- Smother the potatoes with the cream and toss them all together until well combined.
- Tip the contents of the bowl into a pre-greased gratin dish and spread them across it.
- Press it down with a spatula or back of a spoon so that the cream oozes to the surface of the potatoes while the latter forms a solid layer.
- Place the dish in the oven and bake for an hour or until the potatoes are cooked through and becomes mushy; in case the cream seems to dry up, lower the oven temperature slightly.
- Meanwhile, to make the coriander carrots, dump the baby carrots into a pan, along with a couple of tbsp of water, sugar and a knob of butter.
- Heat the mixture until it starts simmering and put a lid on.
- Cook the carrots over gentle heat, for about 5-6 minutes or until the veggies soften.
- Sprinkle a dash of salt and black pepper to season and stir in the cilantro leaves.
- Remove the gratin potatoes from the oven and allow it to cool for about 5 minutes.
- Cut out medium squares and serve alongside the coriander carrots.
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