Dauphinois Hasselback Potatoes

Hang on, we're doing what to those potatoes? This cheesy, creamy dauphinois recipe is the ideal way to revisit the absolute classic recipe and give it a cheeky update.

1 hour cook

Serves 5

Hugh Woodward
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Ingredients

  • 2kMaris Piper potatoes
  • 800mldouble cream
  • 200mlmilk
  • 3 shallots, split lengthways
  • 3 sprigsthyme
  • 1 tsp flaked sea salt
  • 1 tspfreshly grated black pepper
  • 200ggrated emmental
  • 100gcrunchy bacon pieces

That's right, hasselback potatoes are BACK. It's been a hot minute but I think now we remember why this is easily the best kind of potato - this one's a mix between a roast potato and a classic dauphinois, and that kind of sounds like a match made in heaven recipe-wise to us.

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Make sure your potatoes are roughly the same size, then use a pair of chopsticks and set them either side of a potato on a chopping board, like rail tracks.
  • Use a sharp knife to slice parallel lines down the length of the potato until it looks a bit like an armadillo.
  • In a wide, shallow saucepan add the potatoes and pour over the cream, milk, salt and pepper.
  • Bring to a simmer and cook down for roughly 20 minutes or until the cheese has thickened a bit.
  • Cover and cook in the oven until the potatoes are cooked through, roughly 40 more minutes. Keep basting them with the cream. Towards the end of cooking, remove from the oven and top with the grated emmental and crunchy bacon pieces. Cook until the cheese is bubbling.

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    Hugh's culinary life began aged 14 when he cooked spaghetti hoop burritos to impress girls. Since then his colourful career has taken him to performing in Skegness, making cheese in Peckham, running a wine bar on Columbia Road and reluctantly working in a (briefly) Michelin Starred restaurant. He likes fish, things cooked on charcoal, cheap dinners and London's rich cultural tapestry of food shops. When he's not cooking or eating he can be found mudlarking by the river Thames, buying bits in flea markets and hanging out with his cat Keith.

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