Buttermilk Blue Cheese Potatoes Au Gratin

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 7 large potatoes, peeled, parboiled, and thinly sliced
• 2 cups cooked broccoli, drained well (cooked only until firm-tender, but good to garnish with!) (optional)
• 1 cup monterey jack cheese, grated
• 1 1/2 cups coarsely crushed potato chips
• 1 1/2 cups canned sliced mushrooms
• 1 -2 tablespoon pimento pepper, sliced
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 -2 minced fresh garlic clove
• 2 green onions, sliced
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 1/2 cups half-and-half cream or 1 1/2 cups full-fat milk
• 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
• pepper
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 -2 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 1/4 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 2 -3 ounces crumbled blue cheese, divided

Recipe

• 1 make sure to parboil the potatoes until soft-firm.
• 2 butter a 2-1/2-quart shallow casserole dish.
• 3 set oven to 350°f.
• 4 arrange half of the sliced par-boiled potatoes in the bottom of the prepared dish.
• 5 for the buttermilk-blue cheese sauce: melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat.
• 6 add in garlic and shallots; saute for 1 minute.
• 7 add/whisk in flour, whisk and stir for 3 minutes more.
• 8 pour in the half and half and room temperature buttermilk all at once; cook/whisk until sauce thicken and is bubbly.
• 9 remove from heat, and stir in pepper, mayonnaise, mustard, worcestershire sauce, parsley and half of the blue cheese; mix well to combine.
• 10 layer all of the sliced mushrooms over the potatoes in the casserole dish; top with half of the cheese sauce, and distribute the grated jack cheese over the sauce.
• 11 layer remaining potatoes over the jack cheese and sauce.
• 12 spoon with remaining sauce on top.
• 13 sprinkle with remaining blue cheese.
• 14 bake for 45 minutes. remove from oven and sprinkle the potato chips over top; return to oven for 10 minutes.
• 15 remove from oven and arrange the cooked broccoli around the edges of the casserole (if using) and garnish with pimento (if using); bake for 5 minutes longer.
• 16 absolutely delicious!