Dauphinoise potatoes recipe

Looking for a delicious and easy potato dish to make for dinner? Look no further dauphinoise potatoes are a classic French dish and for good reason! They are the perfect side dish for a special dinner or holiday meal. This dish is made with thinly sliced potatoes, cream, garlic, and cheese and it’s easy to make ahead of time so you can relax and enjoy your evening. Best of all, they’re absolutely delicious.

Why you’ll love this potato recipe

• This is total comfort food, tasty, filling, and indulgent, full of thin slices of potatoes, cream, and cheese.

• If you like potato gratin, you’re going to love this!

• Dauphinoise potatoes are a fantastic side dish and a real crowd pleaser perfect for Christmas and thanksgiving.

• It’s incredibly easy to make.

• All the ingredients are 100% vegetarian.

Ingredients you’ll need

You’ll need all the ingredients shown in the photograph below.

How to make dauphinoise potatoes with step-by-step instructions

Making our potatoes dauphinoise recipe is easy if you follow our simple instructions.

A full printable recipe and the measurements in both US customary and metric are available in the recipe card below.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F.

Now, using a sharp knife, slice your potatoes, the slices should be approximately 3mm or 1/8 inch.

Then, in a large saucepan, pour your double cream (heavy cream), full-fat milk, and add Dijon mustard, minced garlic and gently bring it to a simmer.

Add two sprigs of fresh thyme and season with salt and pepper.

Add your sliced potatoes to the simmering cream and let them cook for 4 minutes, stirring gently to avoid the potatoes sticking to each other or sticking to the bottom of the pan.

Using a slotted spoon, transfer the potato slices into an ovenproof prepared baking dish (casserole dish) and arrange them so they are approximately 5/6mm, almost ¼ of an inch deep, and a solid layer.

Then pour the cream mixture so it’s seeping through the layers and there’s a little on the top layer, but it’s not swimming in it.

Next, scatter the freshly grated cheese over the top and place it in the oven and bake for 30 minutes, turning it halfway through.

When the dauphinoise potatoes are ready, they will be golden brown on the top and bubbling.

It will be extremely hot, so let it cool slightly before serving.

Serve with seasonal vegetables, a nut roast, or whatever you fancy!

Recipe notes and tips

• Resist temptation
  Don’t parboil your potato slices, they become too soft and crumbly when baked in the oven.
• Want just a hint of garlic?
  Instead of using minced garlic, use whole garlic cloves when simmering the potato slices in cream sauce, when you place the potatoes in the baking dish, just remove each garlic clove.
• Don’t like garlic?
  If you don’t like garlic, then don’t include it, your dauphinoise potatoes won’t be authentic, but you’ll still enjoy them!
• Want more cheese?
  Add an additional 25% of cheese and then 10 minutes before it’s ready add the remaining cheese.
• Out of fresh thyme?
  Use fresh rosemary instead and why not try adding a hint of nutmeg!
• Perpare your baking dish
  Grease your baking dish with unsalted butter to prevent your dauphinoise potatoes from sticking.
• Cheese
  Don’t make the mistake of using gruyere cheese as it’s not vegetarian.

We’re a little obsessed with our potatoes dauphinoise recipe, the perfect cheesy, creamy side dish with thin slices of potatoes. You’ll wonder how you ever managed without this absolutely delicious recipe in your life.

What is the difference between gratin and dauphinoise?

You’d be forgiven for not knowing the difference between dauphinoise potatoes and potatoes au gratin.

When you make potato au gratin or potatoes au gratin, the sliced potatoes are usually cooked potatoes but with potatoes dauphinoise, they are cooked in the oven from raw.

You may also hear the term scalloped potatoes, which are similar to dauphinoise potatoes and potato gratin.

Scalloped potatoes are also thinly sliced potatoes that are baked in the oven in a cream sauce.

If you have an instant pot, why not try this totally vegan Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes recipe?

What are the best potatoes to use?

Depending on where you are in the world, we recommend using King Edward potatoes, Maris piper potatoes, Yukon gold potatoes, or Russet potatoes.

We used Maris Piper potatoes for our dauphinoise potatoes, and they worked perfectly.

What goes well with potatoes dauphinoise?

Traditionally you’d serve dauphinoise potatoes with roast beef but of course, this is a vegetarian recipe!

For a vegetarian main course, we’d serve it with seasonal vegetables, nut roast, lentil bake, or mushroom wellington.

We even love to eat it as part of a meal alongside southern mash!

How do I store leftover dauphinoise potatoes?

When covered and placed in the fridge, this potato dish will keep overnight.

Just remove the remaining potatoes dauphinoise from the fridge for around 1 hour before placing it in the oven.

If you’re doing this, then just keep a little of the cream mixture and when reheating it, add the mixture to the baking or casserole dish and sprinkle a little extra freshly grated cheese on top.

Other potato recipes for you to try

• Hasselback potatoes – this stylish baked potato will transform your table!

• Hash brown casserole – easy to make, this is a savory dish that is perfect comfort food!

• Baked sweet potato – simple, delicious, and a real crowd pleaser, ideal for a winter party or as a side dish.

• Quorn cottage pie – with a light and fluffy mashed potato topping, this vegetarian twist on a classic British recipe is so good!

• Sweet potato wedges – perfect potato wedges with a sweet caramelized taste, perfect for dipping!

Try out this great recipe for mashed potatoes which go well with dauphinoise potatoes.

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