Scalloped Potatoes With Homemade White Sauce

 

Scalloped Potatoes With Homemade White Sauce

Growing up, my mother and I made scalloped potatoes often. Potatoes were cheap and we really didn't have the money to spend to buy the boxed stuff. It was good, homemade comfort food that filled you up. And, best of all, it was made with love.

It is easy to make your own homemade white sauce and it's the sauce that makes the meal. You can add cooked ham, sausage or hamburger to the dish as well. 

Ingredients

5 Tbs. butter
5 Tbs. flour
5 c. milk  (Or use 3 c. milk and 2 c. chicken broth)
1 to 1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 to 1/2  tsp. black pepper
6 c. potatoes sliced about ⅛" thick
1 onion, thinly sliced into half rings
2 cloves garlic, minced

Directions

Preheat oven to 305°.

In a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Stir in the flour and raise the heat to medium. Cook and stir for 1 minute.  Gradually add the milk, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes or until the sauce is thickened. Stir in the minced garlic. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 

In a 3 quart baking dish, add a fourth of the sliced potatoes and onions. Pour a fourth of the sauce over the top.  Repeat layers.

Bake 60 to 70 minutes or until potatoes are tender.

Makes 8 servings 

To make the potato and onion slices uniform slices, use a mandoline or a food processor with a slicing disc. 

You can also add some cheese over the top of each layer for cheesy scalloped potatoes.  

We often put the baking dish on a baking sheet, just in case the sauce bubbles over as the potatoes are baking.