Buttermilk Blue Potatoes Au Gratin

* Exported from MasterCook *

BUTTERMILK BLUE POTATOES AU GRATIN

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Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Potatoes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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7 medium Maine russet potatoes -- parboiled, peeled,
and thinly sliced
2 1/2 tablespoons Unsalted butter
1 Garlic clove -- crushed
2 Shallots or green onions -- minced
2 tablespoons Unbleached flour
1 1/2 cups Milk -- at room temperature
1 cup Buttermilk -- at room temp
1 teaspoon White pepper
1/4 cup Mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup Fresh parsley -- chopped
2 ounces Blue cheese; crumbled -- divided
3 cups Raw mushrooms -- sliced
1 cup Monterey jack -- grated
1 1/2 cups Potato chips -- coarsely
crushed
1 (10 oz) pkg frozen -- chopped broccoli; th
1 tablespoon Canned pimento -- diced

Arrange half of the potatoes in the bottom of a buttered 2 1/2-quart shallow
casserole dish. Make the buttermilk-blue cheese sauce as follows: melt butter
in a medium saucepan over low heat. Add garlic and shallots and saute for 1
minute. Add flour, stir, and cook for 3 minutes more. Pour in milk and
buttermilk all at once. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce thickens and
bubbles. Remove from heat and stir in white pepper, mayonnaise, mustard,
Worcestershire, parsley and half of the blue cheese.

Layer all the mushrooms over the potatoes in the casserole; top with half of
the sauce and distribute the grated jack cheese over the sauce. Layer
remaining potatoes over cheese and spoon remaining sauce on top.
Sprinkle with remaining blue cheese. Bake at 350F for 45 minutes. Sprinkle
potato chips over top and bake an additional 10 minutes. Meanwhile, blanch the
broccoli.
Arrange broccoli around outer edges of casserole and garnish with pimento; bake
5 minutes longer.

This recipe, by Mary Lou Carlson, won first prize for potatoes in the 2nd
Annual Great New England Cookoff, sponsored by Yankee Magazine. Christie
Aspegren, September 93 Round Robin.

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