Potato and Celeriac Gratin

[achookwoman]

A simple but tasty dish that can be prepared ahead of time and reheated. Serve with a roast meal or grill. I buy a large Celeriac and use it to make soup, salad and this Gratin. The recipe is from Epicurious and adapted for the TMX. This recipe makes 6 generous serves. It can be made any size , just keep the proportion of potato to celeriac , 2/3 potato to 1/3 celeriac.

2 large onions, peeled and 1/4
4 cloves of garlic, peeled.
400g. potato when peeled
200g. celeriac, when peeled
3 sprigs of fresh thyme
1 cup of grated Gruyere or tasty cheese.
salt and pepper. Olive oil
300g cream and 200g milk

Set oven to 200 o C

Drop onion and 2 cloves of garlic on to blades ,speed 7 until chopped.
Scrape down sides and add 1 Tablespoon of oil and cook on speed 2 / 100 o/5 mins. Set aside. No need to wash bowl.
Roughly chop potato and celeriac. Place potato into bowl first and then celeriac.
Zap on turbo until large chunks result.( I did this 3 times) There may be some uncut lumps but cut these with a knife as more processing will produce a pulp.

Layer 1/2 the mix into an oven proof baking dish, dot with 1/2 the onion and spread over with fork, sprinkle 1 sprig of thyme and generous salt and pepper, and 1/2 the cheese.
Repeat above layer.
Into washed TMX bowl, remaining 2 cloves of garlic zapped, cream and milk and 1 sprig of thyme. Heat to 80/speed 3/ 5 mis.
Strain this mix over dish.
Cover with foil and place on oven tray.
Bake for 30 mins, remove foil. Top up cream if there is not a thin coating over potato mix..
Return to oven and bake until light brown on top. 25/30 mins.

[Wonder]

I've never tried celeriac, is the flavour only subtle,  do you think we could get it past the kids?

I'm interested in the fact that you chop the potato and celeric - I only would have thought to slice thinly

[achookwoman]

Wonder,  the original recipe said slice.  But the TMXed result was great.  We had visitors and they raved about it.  Celeriac is just like celery in flavor.  If your children eat pasta bake then they would probably eat this.  You could go easy on the thyme as it gives the dish a herby taste.

[judydawn]

Looks great Chookie, I like celeriac mixed with other things.

[achookwoman]

Judy,  you could probably bake this in a foil tray in the BBQ.

[JulieO]

This sounds great Chookie, on the list.    (like your copper based dish too). 

[Wonder]

Thanks Chookie, celery is one of the few vegies I really dislike but the kids love - so maybe it will be me turning my nose up for a change

[achookwoman]

Wonder,  had left overs heated up for tea.  Not a pronounced celery flavor.  In fact I am not sure that you would know it was there.

[cookie1]

It looks tasty Chookie, something a little different.

[Halex]

Have friends over tomorrow for a bbq, was doing a potato salad but this looks great.

Can i make today and reheat tomorrow?
Thanks
H

[judydawn]

Yes Hally, Chookie heated her leftovers the next day.

[mcmich]

I'm too impatient to wait for my thermomix to arrive, so am trying this recipe in the food processor.

[achookwoman]

I'm too impatient to wait for my thermomix to arrive, so am trying this recipe in the food processor.

Use the slicing disk.  I converted it from a recipe that used a food processor.  Hope you enjoy it michelle.

[mcmich]

I made this gratin and it is sooo yummy. The slicing disk worked wonderfully well.
I'm making this for as an accompaniment for my Christmas Eve family dinner.
Thankyou very much. I love this forum.   

[judydawn]

You are certainly working your way around the forum mcmich - like a busy bee