A little recipe for a very good gratin taken from book Anne Sophie Pic , slightly modified, because I added some mushrooms and ham and I decreased the amount of a hair cream. Provide, if you can break one hour and 15-20min of cooking ... you can also zap the pause and skip to the cooking.
Small note on the equipment used: to make this dish I used the new Cuisipro grater , which can be found at TOC . To cut, she cut it! without any effort! but watch your fingers :-) The equipment is professional quality and I think this grater will work for a long time ... the future will tell ;-)... in short, a good product that I'm quite satisfied!
last little thing, my darling embarked on the 365 project, you can see her photos at this address http://zacozac.tumblr.com
Now place the recipe!
gratin
to a large baking dish
1kg potatoes
25cl milk
65cl single cream
2 cloves garlic (1.5 per infusion, the rest for the dish)
50g unsalted butter + 1peu for mold
2 slices thinly sliced ham
500g porcini mushrooms or Paris washed / cleaned + 20g butter + 1 tablespoon olive oil
Heat 1 tbsp oil and 20g of the butter over low heat in a skillet and add mushrooms. Bake for 10 minutes, stirring frequently until they are well dorés.Salez pepper. Book.
Peel the potatoes and cut in thin slices of 2-3mm thickness around (with a knife, a mandoline, grater or food ... I sliced my were rather 1mm!)
In a large saucepan (it will plunge the potatoes just now), combine the milk, cream with garlic, peeled and cut into 2, and a little nuts grated nutmeg, salt and pepper. Heat over low heat until boiling.
Rub the dish with half the remaining garlic clove and butter it.
Dip the sliced potatoes in the boiling milk and cream and cook over low heat 8min.
Remove with a slotted spoon and place a first layer of potatoes in the buttered gratin dish, sprinkle a little ham and mushrooms, then put a layer of potatoes and so on until all the potatoes, ham and mushrooms.
Boil over medium-low heat milk and cream for another 5 minutes to thicken about consistency. Remove the garlic mixture and adjust seasoning with salt / pepper.
Pour the mixture over the potatoes and let cool a good time. If you're in a hurry skip to the cooking in the oven.
Sprinkle the gratin very cold unsalted butter cut into small pieces. Bake 15-20min.