Any tips for potatoe bake?

Ingredients:
- Potato's
- Brown Onion Soup Powder
- Cream
- Cheese

Alternate between layering sliced potato's and brown onion soup mix and then cream, and then put grated cheese on top, and bake until potato's are soft.


DELICIOUS.
 
sliced crispy bacon
Sour Cream
Grated Cheddar
American/Mexican/TexMex Chilli Powder (if you can find it) mixed with minced meat.
 
Spiced bread crumbs sprinkled on top for a bit of crunch. Kelloggs sells a small 500g box.

Also for something a bit more 'kommin', sprinkle Simba chips on top near the end then bake for short while. I've never tried this BTW.
 
Best tip for potato bake is to over-season it. Potatoes can handle plenty of salt and once cooked for a good hour, the salt loses its intensity and because there are few flavours for the salt to bring out, it doesn't do a very effective job. Taste to preference before cooking, then add more salt and bake.

I like to make a few variations of potato bake:

Parmesan potato bake

Ordinary gratin dauphinois recipe but instead of putting cheese on top (as most people do), I make parmesan crisps (just melted parmesan that has hardened) and add them on top after the potato bake has cooled (to avoid the crisps losing their crunch).

Roasted garlic potato bake

Again, same recipe but instead of raw garlic, I roast a few heads of garlic and squeeze it into the cream mixture.

A few other things I have tried involves adding different herbs, such as fresh origanum, adding mustard, using creme fraiche and cream, pouring over a little stock before cooking, adding breadcrumbs to the top, using brown onion soup (yes, from a packet - it does taste good), or just making a cheese sauce (such as a mornay sauce)...
 
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You can buy those Potato bake saches at spar, think knorr makes it.

2 packets of KNORR Bacon & Onion potato bake.
2L of full cream milk.
Lots of Potatoes
2 Large onions
1 Pack of bacon
1 Huge chunk of chees of your choice. I usually mix gouda & chedder.
1 Shallow oven dish, you do NOT want a deep dish.

Peel potoes & cut thinly. If they are to thick they take longer to cook through.
Peel onion and cut into thin slices so you have lots of thin rings.
Cut bacon into small chunks and fry until crispy.
Grate all of the cheese (you can NEVER have to much cheese)
Mix 2x potato bake ready mix with 2L of milk, mix it well.

Lightly spread butter on bottom & sides of oven dish.
Now start layering your potatoes, onion, bacon & cheese in the dish. Multiple layers of each is good.
Pour the milk mixture into the dish.
Add a last layer of cheese onto the top and cover the top of the dish with foil.
Pop dish into preheated oven (instructions on the ready mix packet)
Remove the foil like halfway through the proces as it's not nice with crispy cheese on top, you want it slightly brown only.

Lots of milk will evaporate away but the potatoes cook so soft & smooth in the milk it is to die for.

This really does make the best potato bake I have ever had and I have many to back me up on this. When going away the woman always go "You guys want potato bake with the braai" and the men respond with "Don't worry sweetie, you relax, we will get ponder to do the hard work and make the potato bake"

I'm so hungry now I guess I will be making a potato bake tomorrow.
 
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