Male: Who said potatoes have to be boring. Forget the russet bag of potatoes and start introducing different varieties of potatoes into your cooking. A few obvious additions to the spud family are sweet potatoes, red potatoes and yams and with so many delicious potatoes grown right here in California, it’s no wonder you can whip up some great side dishes. Food and lifestyle expert Laura Mackintosh is bringing it home with a fabulous 3 potato gratin.
Laura: Dana, let’s talk about what you’re doing right now?
Dana: We’re to make a 3 potato gratin, very simple dish. We have used sweet potatoes, the garnet yams actually. We’ve used a Kennebec and we’re using a red potato and we’ve sliced these and put them into water so that we could do that part of it ahead which is really useful.
Laura: Notice you guys that the peels are still on the potatoes, so you don’t need to peel your potatoes, wash them real well just before you’re ready to slice them. Put them in water and put them in the refrigerator.
Dana: So we’re going to do a little bit of pepper and a little bit of salt and a little bit of cheese.
Laura: What kind of cheese are you using?
Dana: We’re using an asiago.
Laura: One of my favorites. I love asiago cheese.
Dana: So we basically just repeat this layering process with a little bit of cream and a little bit of potato until it’s done and then you put it in the oven and bake it for about an hour.
Laura: How many layers typically for say a party of four?
Dana: It depends on the size of your baking dish once again. We’re going to put probably three to four layers in here and it will settle as it bakes but that should be enough for eight to 10 people.
Laura: One more layer, I think we can do it, there we go. Any potato that you wouldn’t use?
Dana: Maybe the blue ones.
Laura: They are sliced really thin, you’ve done a nice job really slicing those. We have one in the oven that we’re going to pull out and check and let you see what that looks like.
Dana: That is pretty much ready for the oven. We’re going to go ahead and top that with a little bit of cream and away we go.
Laura: Remember this is a little high but it will fall a little bit and that’s what you want. Take a look at this you guy. Man are you happy?
Dana: Yes.
Laura: That goes in and this one is out. Dana, this looks absolutely fantastic, easy to do and like you said rich right, very rich but tasty and remember all these recipes are found on our website.
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