Replace standard potatoes with sliced sweet potatoes. Add a tablespoon of horseradish t o the sauce for a little kick. Sprinkle in diced ham and chopped bell peppers to make it a main dish, whether for breakfast or dinner. Tips Although, by definition, scalloped potatoes recipes don't call for cheese, and both scalloped and au gratin potatoes can use breadcrumbs on the top, many recipes add cheese to scalloped potatoes or eliminate the breadcrumbs entirely -- hence perpetuating the idea that the two dishes are interchangeable.
How to Thicken Milky Cheese Sauce. How to Defrost Cheese. Of course, variations abound—you'll find some recipes for scalloped potatoes with a breadcrumb topping, or potatoes au gratin with a cream sauce and a little cheese on top. However you make them, both dishes are comforting, go-with-anything sides, especially around the holidays, alongside the glazed ham or crown roast. And while it is handy to know the difference between scalloped potatoes and potatoes au gratin especially if you're ordering them at a restaurant , it is not a crime to get the names of these dishes mixed up.
We'll admit that our own test kitchen does it sometimes—you'll find many recipes for scalloped potatoes with cheese on our site like the video above. And we've even published a Potato Au Gratin Casserole made with frozen hash browns, tons of cheese, and a cornflake topping.
It's absolutely unorthodox and completely delicious. By Lisa Cericola. Potatoes are the most commonly eaten vegetable in the world, mostly thanks to French fries and their ubiquity, but also because potatoes are an important part of many dinners. One of the best dinner dishes you can make with a potato is potatoes au gratin. Or is that scalloped potatoes? Perhaps these are just the same dish with two different languages at work. These are two distinct dishes, but here is why they get confused for one another.
Technically speaking, both of these dishes are rich and creamy foods made with sliced potatoes. So, if you have two dishes made with a lot of the same ingredients and with similar taste and texture characteristics, you can be forgiven for mistaking them for one another. You could even look at a comparison of scalloped potatoes vs au gratin and not see a lot of difference. To the untrained eye, they may both look like the same dish prepared slightly different. There is a single ingredient that separates these two dishes, and once you notice, it will be easy to distinguish the two.
Scalloped potatoes are cut thick, in most cases, whereas au gratin potatoes are usually cut thin. This makes for a differently textured dish, and the au gratin potatoes will have grated cheese placed between the layers, where scalloped potatoes are not supposed to have any cheese at all. Potatoes au gratin also tend to have breadcrumbs on top, and scalloped potatoes do not. They are garnished differently, with the au gratin potatoes getting a layer of breadcrumbs and cheese on top, and scalloped potatoes usually garnished with parsley or chives.
Anything green and chopped should work, really, as it gives the scalloped potatoes their classic look. Here is where things get even more confusing- sometimes, recipes will call for scalloped potatoes to be topped with cheese and breadcrumbs.
You can make scalloped potatoes and then top them however you want, but you might not be able to still call them scalloped potatoes.
So, you have two dishes that are easy to confuse on the surface, and then confusion is added to that when people make up recipes for one or the other and then suggest ingredients and methods that mix up how the dish is supposed to be made. We think you should be able to prepare your food the way you want it, garnishing it and flavouring it to suit your tastes.
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