I was craving scalloped potatoes but with the temperature being 100 degrees today and my house is a sauna, I didn’t want to turn the oven on.
Since I was barbecuing the steaks I needed an easy side dish, I had made beans in the crock pot cause that is what my kids like…but I like potatoes with my meat! I had red skin potatoes that I put to boil and thought I would just eat it with some butter and salt as I like potatoes like that.
Then I decided since I have all these fresh herbs in my backyard, I should make use of them and add it to the butter, then I made a sauce with it!
What you will need in approx measurements:
- 5 to 6 potatoes
- Few oregano leaves
- Few springs of parsley
- some fresh thyme
- 2-3 chives
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1 cup half and half cream or whole milk
Boil the potatoes in salted water, drain and slice potatoes when cool enough to touch. I added them to a BBQ tray and barbecued them for 5-10 mins to reheat and get a nice flavour and grill mark on them. Or you can pan fry them to get browned. But you can skip all that if you like boiled potatoes as is.
Take your herbs and finely chop them along with the garlic. Melt butter in a sauce pan and add in the herbs/garlic. Add in the flour and whisk in together, stir in the milk or cream quickly.
Season with salt and pepper. Cook on low, whisking until it thickens, this takes a 3 to 5 minutes. Add more milk if it is too thick.
Pour oven hot potatoes and enjoy! 🙂
Mmmmm….these look good!