Au Gratin Recipe
Au Gratin is a french delicacy served with warm toasted bread. Au Gratin has all your favorite vegetables dunked in a cheesy white sauce with a crusty golden top. Learn to make Veg Au Gratin Recipe the perfect way with step by step pictures and video.
Servings2
Ingredients
- 1 cup potato
- ¾ cup carrot
- ¼ cup green peas
- ½ cup cauliflower
- ½ cup beans
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoon cheese
*I used carrot, beans, potatoes, cauliflower and peas - 3 cups in total
For the white sauce:
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup flour
- 2 cups milk
- ½ teaspoon pepper crushed
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Boil water add salt to it. Add ¾ cup carrot, 1 cup potato and ½ cup beans. Cook for 3 mins.
- Then add ¼ cup peas and ½ cup cauliflower. So the vegetables comes to 3 cups in total. Cook for 2 mins.
- Drain and remove the vegetables. Do not overcook.
- Drain water completely and set aside. You can use the drained water as vegetable stock for making soups. Set this aside.
- Heat ¼ cup butter - Let it melt. If you prefer you can add finely ½ teaspoon chopped garlic and 2 tablespoon finely chopped onion.
- Add ¼ cup flour.
- Keep whisking until no dry flour is seen.
- Add 2 cups milk and keep whisking simultaneously to avoid lump formation.
- Keep stirring until it starts to thicken.
- Within few mins the sauce will start to thicken. Cook in low flame, Keep stirring. Once it starts to thicken switch to a spatula.
- The sauce will will coat the ladle.
- Add salt to taste, ½ teaspoon crushed pepper, ¼ teaspoon nutmeg powder and 2 tablespoon cheese.
- After adding cheese it bubbles up and becomes more creamy and thick. This white sauce is called Bechamel sauce. Bechamel sauce is ready now.
- Now add cooked vegetables.
- Mix it well, cook for a minute then switch off.
- The vegetables should be well coated with the sauce, the sauce should not be very thick it should still be goey like shown below.
- Vegetables in bechamel sauce ready.
- Preheat oven at 200 deg C for 10 mins. Transfer it to a baking dish.
- Sprinkle ½ cup grated cheese to cover the top. Bake in preheated oven at 200 deg C for 20 mins. Change to grill mode for the last 2-3 mins to get a golden crusty top.
- Veg Au gratin ready to be served. Perfectly done au gratin ready. Crusty top with a gooey white sauce with vegetables tastes out of the world.
- Do try and enjoy. You can enjoy au gratin as such or with crisp toasted bread. Enjoy Au gratin hot!
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Notes
- Always use soft tender juicy vegetables and avoid hard vegetables like yam etc. The vegetables used is of your choice,but do not use vegetables that leave out more water, choose hard vegetables that cook easily.
- I used carrot, beans, peas, cauliflower and potato.
- Use good quality cheese. You can use cube cheese or mozarella cheese.
- I added italain seasoning while serving.
- The vegetables needs only to be ¾ th cooked else it will become mushy.
- You can even steam the veggies and directly add into white sauce.
- Cut the vegetables into bite sized pieces.
- You can make the white sauce well ahead and store it.
- Do not make the vegetables mushy, it should be crunchy.
Nutrition Facts
Au Gratin Recipe
Amount Per Serving (125 g)
Calories 654
Calories from Fat 369
% Daily Value*
Fat 41g63%
Saturated Fat 25g156%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 10g
Cholesterol 119mg40%
Sodium 549mg24%
Potassium 1172mg33%
Carbohydrates 53g18%
Fiber 6g25%
Sugar 18g20%
Protein 21g42%
Vitamin A 9556IU191%
Vitamin C 46mg56%
Calcium 554mg55%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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