Scalloped Potatoes

My choice instruction for garlicky, cheesy, perfect scalloped potatoes - lightened up a tad with concentrate instead of threatening remove

The added non-negotiable for me apiece Wind, Yule, Thanksgiving and - let's be true - any dark of the period that I'm craving few creamy, garlicky, cheesy succour food?

Specifically, these scalloped potatoes.  In my broken judgement, they are only the optimum.  And in the age since I originally posted this instruction here on the blog, thousands of you jazz also proven them and united!  So today, I intellection I'd break this instruction back to the top of the arrange for those of you who strength be new to the diary and perception for a proven and real instruction to eliminate this weekend.  As someone who has prefabricated these scores and scores of nowadays, I can plight - they won't let you medico.

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 small white or yellow onion, peeled and thinly sliced
• 4 large garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chicken stock or vegetable stock
• 2 cups milk (I recommend 2% or whole milk)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, divided
• 4 pounds Yukon Gold Potatoes, sliced into 1/8-inch rounds
• 2 cups freshly-grated sharp cheddar cheese*, divided (feel free to add more cheese if you’d like)
• 1/2 cup freshly-grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for serving

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.  Oil a 9 x 13-inch baking containerful with cookery spray; set excursus.
2. Merge butter in a sizable sauté pan over medium-high turn.  Add onion, and sauté for 4-5 transactions until yielding and translucent.  Add flavourer and sauté for an more 1-2 transactions until odorous.  Move in the flour until it is evenly combined, and make for 1 more small.  Gradually pelt in the stalk, and beat until joint.  Add in the concentrate, briny, pepper, and 1 containerful thyme, and beat until combined.  Move cooking for an added 1-2 minutes until the sauce fair barely begins to simmer around the edges of the pan (refrain letting it Distribute half of the sliced potatoes in an change stratum on the merchantman of the pan.  Top evenly with half of the toiletries sauce.  (I ordinarily variety out all of the onions and add them here too.)  Then splash evenly with 1 cup of the cut cheddar mallow, and all of the Cheese cheese.  Top evenly with the remaining sliced potatoes, the additional half of the ointment sauce, and the remaining 1 cup of cheese cheeseflower.
3. Covering the pan with aluminium icon and bake for 30 transactions.  The sauce should be city and foamy around the edges.  Then vanish the foil and heat denuded for 25-30 proceedings, or until the potatoes are broiled through.
4. Somebody the pan to a mechanism pace, and sprinkling with the remaining teaspoon of thyme and unneeded Cheese.  Copulate lukewarm.

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