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Scalloped Potatoes are an easy classic recipe, perfect for your Easter dinner, Christmas, Thanksgiving or even just for Sunday dinner.
In this side dish, thinly sliced potatoes and onions are layered in an easy homemade cream sauce and baked until tender, golden, and bubbly. Potato perfection!
An Easy Classic

Of all the potato side dishes from Oven Roasted Potatoes to Perfect Baked Potatoes, nothing says comfort food like creamy side of scalloped potatoes (except maybe creamy buttery mashed potatoes).

So exactly what are Scalloped Potatoes? Thought to have originated in England, the word 'scallop' is basically a definition for how the potato is sliced. Thin and uniformly cut potatoes are layered in a casserole dish and then covered with a seasoned onion cream sauce and baked. The result is this savory scalloped potato recipe!

Ingredients

Potatoes Yukon gold potatoes (or red potatoes) have tender skin and don't require peeling (they hold their shape well). Russet potatoes or Idaho potatoes will work but tend to break apart more (but still taste good).

Onions Onions add a lot of flavor to this recipe and are a classic ingredient.

Cream Sauce A quick cream sauce made with flour, butter, milk and broth. If you'd like to add cheese, remove the sauce from the heat and stir in a handful or two of shredded cheese. It will melt from the heat of the sauce.

Seasonings Simple seasonings in this recipe include salt, pepper, onion, garlic. Add in your own favorites including thyme, rosemary, parsley.

How to Make Scalloped Potatoes

Making scalloped potatoes from scratch takes time but it is easy. While true scalloped potatoes do not have cheese, we sometimes add a little bit in!

1. Thinly slice potatoes & onions.

2. Make homemade sauce (recipe below)

3. Layer potatoes, onions and sauce. Cover and bake.

4. Remove foil and bake a bit more, this step creates the delicious brown top on the scalloped potatoes

IMPORTANT Cool 20 minutes before serving to allow the sauce to thicken.

Tips for Perfect Scalloped Potatoes

Slice the potatoes evenly to ensure the scalloped potatoes cook evenly

Use a mandoline to make this job extra quick (a $25 mandoline like this one does a great job and will save you lots of time)

A roux is the foundation for a creamy sauce. A roux just means to cook fat (in this case butter) and flour and add liquid to make a sauce!

If you decide to add cheese to the sauce (which will actually make these into Potatoes Au Gratin) remove the sauce from the stove and stir in 1 1/2 to 2 cups of cheese (cheddar/gruyere are great choices).

Season the potatoes with salt and pepper between layers.

Cover with foil while it bakes, this allows it to steam and the potatoes will cook a bit faster.

To Make Scalloped Potatoes Ahead of Time

To make these ahead of time (and keep cooking fast on the day of serving) we have tested partially baking them with great results.

Bake the dish covered for 50-60 minutes.

Remove from the oven and cool completely on the counter (leave them covered, the steam will help to finish cooking).

Cover well and refrigerate.

On the day of serving, remove from the fridge at least 30 minutes before baking. Bake uncovered about 35 minutes or until heated through.

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Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

What is the Difference Between Scalloped and Au Gratin Potatoes?

Potatoes au Gratin are also called cheesy potatoes because the white sauce is actually a cheese sauce (and they often have cheese sprinkled between the layers and/or breadcrumb topping).

This scalloped potato recipe can (of course) be topped with cheese or have cheese added in but sometimes I love the simplicity in this recipe without cheese. The sweetness of the onions and milk is the perfect addition to these sliced potatoes!

Can You Freeze Scalloped Potatoes?

These potatoes will keep in the fridge for about 4 days and reheat well in the microwave, oven or in a frying pan! If you want to freeze them longer, yes, scalloped potatoes can be frozen!

Almost any casserole dish can be frozen perfectly with a little know-how. If making a freezer meal, the best way to freeze scalloped potatoes is to not fully cook them all way, but leave them a little undercooked. Then, once they are cooled in the fridge, portion them out the way you want to and wrap carefully before putting in the freezer. To reheat, simply thaw and finish the cooking until the potatoes are tender again!

While that's a great option, most often we want to freeze leftovers. In this case, these scalloped potatoes freeze well, although I do find they sometimes break apart a bit when reheated but they still taste great!

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This easy scalloped potatoes recipe is a favorite! Tender potatoes in an easy creamy sauce makes the best ever potato side dish!

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If you're a lover of loaded baked potatoes and pizza, than this Loaded Baked Potato Pizza is your dream come true! Pizza dough covered with all the loaded baked potato fixings - sour cream, chives, bacon, cheese and sliced potatoes!

It's been a while since I've come atcha' with a stellar pizza recipe - the primary reason being that we eat pizza on Fridays and LBH - on Friday, I want to sit on my caboose and shove za' in my mouth in my sweatpants without having to style it, photograph it and let it get ice cold. SELFISH I KNOW. But because this Loaded Baked Potato Pizza is so GD good, I went ahead and made sure to make it for ya on a day when I knew I could do all of those things - and also still shove a piece or two in my mouth. A girls gotta eat - even if it is at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon (and um, she already had lunch.)

Honestly, this is one of my go-to pizza combinations and I've been making it for years now - mostly if we have people over and I really want to wow them with my za' making skills. I think the first time I had this gem though was in college at this amazing pizza place called Antonios in providence. There were two go-to pizza places in college - Golden Crust - which was a hop skip and a stumble from campus, and at 2am, always tasted like gold (hence it's name). During daylight hours, sans a keg of beer or a couple solo cups of jungle juice, not so much.

Antonios however, was like the 'fancified' pizza place that you had to actually get in the car to go to, vs. stumble and/or be escorted to by your semi-less intoxicated friends. So you knew when you went there, your pizza selection choices were going to be less blurry and far more expansive. Pizza combos that you could only dream about! And this baked potato one always stuck out in my head.

So now on Friday nights, before I go to bed at 9pm after 1.5 glasses of sauvignon blanc, I relive my "fancy pizza" college days from time to time, and whip up this Loaded Baked Potato Pizza. I always enjoy a break from a red sauced pizza and the base for this is actually the same thing you'd find on a good ole' loaded baked potato - sour cream with a heavy sprinkle of chives. Topped with a mexican blend cheese (or you could always just do straight cheddar), some lightly pan friend tater's and a VERY HEALTHY sprinkle of bacon bits (because bacon is healthy and should be sprinkled healthily). AND if you're husband isn't super picky and digs sour cream, add a little bit o' sour cream drizzle on top of that pizza (not shown in this photo - because mayo and sour cream scare Dave more than Valentine's Day.) But he does like the sour cream/chive base, which just goes to show how dynamite it is!

Loaded Baked Potato Pizza

The wondorous flavors of a loaded baked potato, all topped onto your favorite pizza dough

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Loaded Baked Potato Pizza | And They Cooked Happily Ever After

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Loaded Baked Potato Pizza is pizza dough covered with all the loaded baked potato fixings - sour cream, chives, bacon, cheese and sliced potatoes!