Photo: Lars Blankers
The perfect potato gratin
13 ingredients
8-10
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I love roast potatoes and you'll always find them on my Christmas table. But, if you've got a big crowd for Christmas then this gratin is an exciting and quite luxurious way of serving potatoes. You could either make them instead of, or as well as, your roast potatoes.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
751
Calories
26g
Protein
50g
Fat
54g
Carbs
Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Parmesan Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 110 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Bacon | 1 slice cooked (8g) | 43 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Thyme | 1 tsp dried (1.4g) | 4 |
| Bay Leaf | 1 leaf (0.6g) | 2 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Chestnut | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1 small knob butter
- 200 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 300 ml double cream
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and finely sliced
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2.5 kg potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 handful fresh thyme
- 1 small handful Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- olive oil
- 6 rashers higher-welfare streaky bacon, chopped
- 1 handful vac-packed chestnuts, peeled and crumbled
Directions
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By jamieoliver ·
Recipe sourced from
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