Thinly sliced potatoes in a deliciously creamy cheese sauce.
What You Will Need
Potatoes, onion, milk, flour, butter, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and cheddar cheese are all you need for this easy recipe. You will need a sauce pan to make the cheese sauce on the stovetop as well as a baking dish to bake the potatoes in.
Step by Step Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Peel and slice your potatoes into thin slices. Soak your potato slices in a bowl of cold salted water while you work on the cheese sauce.
In a saucepan add milk, flour, butter, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder and heat on low whisking continuously for 5-10 minutes.
Gradually add shredded cheddar cheese and whisk until incorporated and sauce is smooth and creamy.
In a casserole dish, add your drained potato slices.
Add a handful of diced onions onto the potatoes.
Pour cheese sauce over onions and potatoes.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake in the oven for one hour. Remove aluminum foil and sprinkle on more cheddar cheese. Put the dish back in the oven and broil a few minutes on high.
Season individual servings with more salt and black pepper. Enjoy!
Tips & Advice
I highly recommend buying a block of cheddar cheese and shredding the cheese yourself rather than buying pre-shredded cheese. This is a very simple thing you can do to make this taste even better!
You can easily add cooked diced ham to this recipe! Just add them gradually throughout as you add your raw potatoes to the baking dish.
An easy complete meal idea for you: serve these cheesy scalloped potatoes with baked pork chops and a green veggie (such as peas).
I use about 1/4 of an onion because I am the only person that cares for onions in my household. Use as much or as little onion as you would like!
Printable Recipe
Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Ingredients
- 3 lbs russet potatoes (approximately 7 medium)
- 1 onion (to taste)
- 2 cups milk
- 3 TBSP flour
- 2 TBSP butter
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
- Garlic powder to taste
- 8 oz (2 cups) shredded cheddar cheese divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Peel and slice your potatoes into thin slices. Soak your potato slices in a bowl of cold salted water while you work on the cheese sauce.
- In a saucepan add milk, flour, butter, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder and heat on low whisking continuously for 5-10 minutes.
- Gradually add 4 oz (1 cup) shredded cheddar cheese and whisk until incorporated and sauce is smooth and creamy.
- In a casserole dish, add your drained potato slices. Top with diced onion.
- Pour cheese sauce over potatoes and onions.
- Cover dish with aluminum foil and bake in the oven at 350 for one hour.
- Remove baking dish from oven, remove aluminum foil, and add remaining shredded cheddar cheese. Broil on high for several minutes.
- Remove from oven. Season individual servings with salt and black pepper to taste. Enjoy!
Oh man, this sounds and looks so good my mouth is watering!! Can you use cornstarch instead of flour to make the cheese sauce so this is gluten-free?
Thank you MaryJo! I haven’t tried substituting cornstarch for flour but I don’t envision that being a problem! Cornstarch is thicker than flour so I would suggest only adding 1 1/2 TBSP of cornstarch. Let me know if you try this substitute and how it works out for you!