BBQ Smoked Potatoes au Gratin Recipe Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

heavy cream

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

cheddar cheese

🥗Healthier: low-fat cheese

💰Cheaper: processed cheese

Low-fat cheese reduces calories and fat content

bacon

🥗Healthier: turkey bacon

💰Cheaper: smoked sausage

Turkey bacon is lower in fat and calories

Parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated Pecorino

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories

Slice the Idaho potatoes super thin, about a sixteenth of an inch.

Heat a cast iron frying pan and fry the bacon until almost crisp, rendering out the fat.

Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon, leaving the fat in the pan.

Add butter to the pan if necessary to have about 3-4 tablespoons of fat.

Add about 3 tablespoons of flour to the fat and stir to make a roux, cooking until it starts to change color.

Slowly add milk and whisk until smooth.

Add about 2 cups of whipping cream and whisk until combined.

Season the sauce with black pepper and adjust salt based on the bacon's saltiness.

Add pizza mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese to the bowl with the potatoes, bacon, onions, and jalapeno; mix well.

Transfer the mixture to the cast iron frying pan.

Add more milk if the sauce is too thick before cooking.

Place the pan in the smoker set at 350°F under the chicken and cook for about an hour.

Cooking Techniques

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