Whats The Difference Between Potato Gratin And Dauphinoise?

[Chasingcars]

And does anyone have a good easy recipe for either? Thanks!

[boxtops]

Personally, I wouldn't know the difference - and I buy ours ready-made from Aldi, it saves a lot of time and they are really nice!

[boxtops]

here's a recipe https://www.aldi.us/en/recipes/sides/potatoes/individual-au-gratin-potatoes/

[Chasingcars]

Hi boxtops, I know, Im buying them a lot readymade lately so my new years resolution was to try and cook more of what i keep buying!

[boxtops]

LOL - Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.....

[FrogNog]

Dauphinoise are raw potato slices baked in the sauce and gratin is cooked potato slices heated in the oven or grilled,.
A gratin should have a browned crunchy top, a dauphinoise doesn't need this.
Apart from that, they're pretty interchangeable

[LyndaB]

I have no idea which one I make - but this is how I do it. Slice potatoes, put in an ovenproof dish, season, then cover with cream. Bake till the top is browned and the potatoes are cooked through. It's delicious and simple to do - what more could you want?

[Old_Geezer]

Don't you just love those lo cal recipes Mmmmm...

[pastafreak]

Life is too short for low cal...;-)

[Arksided]

^ agreed :-)

[EcclesCake]

I think this link clears up the muddle.....or not.....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratin

[jack daniels]

off another web site

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100405062841AA9ZOvg

Anna x

[ummmm]

That's what I thought the difference was. Gratin topped with cheese or breadcrumbs.

How I do my dauphinoise....I heat cream and garlic, layer thinly sliced potatoes, layer of onions, layer of spinach, season and repeat. Then tip on the heated cream and bake.

[Mamyalynne]

Another easy potato dish but lower in Calories (you can even omit or reduce the amount of cheese) is Boulngere.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/boulang-re-potatoes/

I often use a mix of veg and beef stock to add oomph.

[Mamyalynne]

Boulangère-keys sticking

[mayennaise]

Boulangerie - so called because the french house wives used to put their spuds in the bakers oven after the baker had baked all his bread!!

[Mamyalynne]

And very tasty too,yum.

[pmcgarry]

From what I've read and researched the answer seems to be that dauphinoise is layers of cream and potatoes (although some will add cheese but it appears the purists advise that to be incorrect traditionally) and then baked. Au Gratin/potato bakes/and variants, etc. have cheese, eggs and breadcrumbs added.

Where this takes on an ugly conversational twist is when you throw in potatoes dauphine. Dauphine is a fried potato dumpling made with a choux (water, salt, flour, egg, butter mix/paste) and then your mashed potatoes. Interesting that's named a variant of dauphinoise given the ingredients are more in alignment with a gratin.