Sweet Potato Gratin

This recipe comes from the ABC's The Chew


The recipe with the modifications that I made is as follows:

Ingredients:

• 2 Sweet Potatoes
• 1/3 Cup Parmesan Cheese (plus some extra to sprinkle on top)
• 1 Cup Heavy Cream
• 1 Jalapeno - Minced
• Pepper - To Taste
• 1 Garlic Cloves - Minced
• 1/3 Cup Scallions -  Chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F.
2. Cut sweet potatoes into 1/4 inch slices.
3. Bring heavy cream to a simmer.  Add scallions, garlic, jalapeno, and 1/3 cup parmesan.
4. Add a layer of potatoes to a pan.  Pour some of the cream mixture over the potatoes.  Continue layering until all the potatoes and cream have been used.
5. Top potatoes with a bit of extra parmesan.
6. Cover pan and bake for 40 minutes.  Uncover for the last 10 minutes.

Thoughts About The Dish:

We liked this dish, but not enough to make it an all-the-time feature of our menu. We will be making it again, but it will probably be a little while. When we do make it again, we will probably keep most or all of the jalapeno seeds in the mixture, and/or add another jalapeno. As it was, the cream and sweetness of the sweet potato over shadowed any taste of spiciness in the dish.

The other thing  worth noting here is that if you, like us, are big fans of au gratin potatoes, it will pay to keep in mind that this is a dish from sweet potatoes (that's why it's paleo!), and sweet potatoes have a very different flavor than normal potatoes - they are MUCH sweeter, so this dish will have a lot of different flavors than your typical gratin. It is still tasty, but it's different than you may initially expect when you think of a gratin.