Baked Potato Slices
From: Grand-Maman Muriel, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Comments: One serving baked potato slices, one fruit and a nut salad: a simple, balanced meal.
Served along with a meat serving, a green salad and a fruit salad, it becomes an elaborated meal, yet still a balanced meal.
Always store potatoes into a cool, dark and well ventilated environment; too much warmth = germinated, wrinkled potatoes, as too much cold = blackened and sometimes sweeter potaotes.
Be careful! green potatoes have been exposed for too long to warmth and have developed 'solanine'; remove and throw away any green part onto potatoes.
If you must store potatoes at room temperature, only buy a small quantity at a time and use them as soon as possible.
Servings: 6
IngredientsPreparation
  • 6 medium-size potatoes, peeled
  • 1/4 cup [60 g] butter or margarine
  • 1/4 cup [60 mL] finely chopped onion
  • 1/4 cup [35 g] all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] salt
  • Pepper, to taste
  • 1/4 teaspon [1 mL] dry mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon [2.5 mL] Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 cups [500 mL] milk
  • 2 cups [450 g] grated Old Cheddar, Gruyere or Emmenthal cheese
  • 2 tablespoons [30 g] butter or margarine
  • 2 slices whole wheat bread
  • Butter an oven-safe dish; set aside.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F [180°C].
  • Really thinly slice peeled potatoes.
  • Into a frypan, melt 1/4 cup [60 g] butter or margarine; brown chopped onion.
  • Thouroughly mix in flour, salt, pepper, dry mustard and Worcestershire sauce.
  • Pour in milk, stirring.
  • Cook until thickened; well mix in grated cheese and check for seasonings.
  • Alternately arrange potato slices into prepared dish pouring in a little sauce, ending with sauce.
  • Spread remaining 2 tablespoons [30 g] butter or margarine over bread slices.
  • Dice bread slices.
  • Evenly arrange bread dices all over potato mixture.
  • Bake into preheated oven for 90 minutes, until potato slices are soft.