Scalloped Potatoes and Fennel
Scalloped Potatoes and Fennel might be just the side dish you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 21g of fat, and a total of 313 calories. This recipe serves 12. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. If you have russet potatoes, butter, heavy whipping cream, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It will be a hit at your Easter event. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and vegetarian diet.
Instructions
Position rack in center of oven and preheatto 350°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass bakingdish.
Place garlic cloves and rosemarysprigs in bottom of prepared baking dish.
Combine cream, coarse salt, and whitepepper in large bowl.
Cut off any stalks and fronds fromfennel bulbs; discard stalks. Finely chopfennel fronds; cover and chill. Using V-sliceror mandoline, thinly slice fennel bulbs.
Layer half of fennel slices evenly atopgarlic and rosemary in baking dish. Peelpotatoes and place immediately in largebowl of cold water to prevent discoloration.Working with 1 potato at a time, use aV-slicer or mandoline to thinly slice intorounds. Immediately add potatoes tobowl with cream mixture, turning to coatpotatoes. Arrange half of potato slicesevenly over fennel slices in baking dish,reserving cream mixture in bowl. Repeatlayering with remaining fennel slices,then remaining potato slices.
Pour creammixture in bowl over fennel-potato mixturein baking dish. Dot with butter cubes. Coverbaking dish with foil, doming foil slightly(do not allow foil to touch potatoes).
Bake scalloped potatoes until almosttender when pierced with knife, about 1 hour15 minutes. Increase oven temperature to425°F.
Remove foil and bake uncovered untilpotatoes are tender and top is deep goldenbrown, about 20 minutes longer.
Removefrom oven and let rest 15 minutes.
Sprinklewith reserved fennel fronds and serve.