Potato Boulangère

by Joe Woodhouse, featured in Your Daily Veg

Published by Kyle Books

Introduction

I used to make this with the potatoes cut into slices and all laid out flat, which works just fine. But standing the potato slices up gives a brilliant crunchy element on top, while the bottom half steams and softens, going wonderfully creamy. When slicing the potato, a mandolin is great but by hand is fine; what’s important is to slice them as evenly as possible.

As featured in

Your Daily Veg

Image of Joe Woodhouse's Potato Boulangere — Photo by Joe Woodhouse

Ingredients

Serves: 6

150 grams unsalted butter
3 onions (finely sliced)
4 cloves garlic (finely sliced)
3 thyme sprigs (leaves picked)
1¼ kilograms floury potatoes such as Maris Piper or Desirée (peeled and finely sliced)
300 millilitres vegetable stock
Maldon sea salt flakes
black pepper

Method

Potato Boulangère is a guest recipe by Joe Woodhouse so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F), Gas Mark 4.
Melt half the butter in a large pan that will hold all of the ingredients over medium heat and add the onions, garlic and thyme leaves. Cook gently for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the potato slices to coat well with the buttery onions. Season well with salt and pepper.
In a 30 × 20cm (12 × 8 inch) baking dish, roughly stack the potatoes upright along the length of the dish. Their edges should point upwards like a roughly shuffled pack of cards and they should sit snugly. Pour over the vegetable stock and dot the remaining butter evenly over the top of the potatoes.
Roast the potatoes in the oven for 50–60 minutes. As they cook they will become creamy and tender underneath and the top edges will crisp. If browning too much on top, cover loosely with foil until tender.
Once done, remove from the oven and allow to sit for a few minutes before serving.