Easy Instant Scalloped Potatoes: Creamy Comfort in 30 Minutes
Potato basics include French fries, mashed potatoes, and baked potatoes. However, we can get fancy with dishes like potato confit or duchess potatoes. A nice middle ground is this easy instant scalloped potatoes recipe.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Perfect Side Dish – This recipe makes a great side dish that ditches the traditional method to speed up the process.
- Easy Cooking Process – The cooking time is reduced drastically, but the preparation is just as simple.
- Two Recipes in One – We love a cheesy scalloped potatoes recipe, but ditch the cheese sauce for a more classic scalloped potatoes recipe, or keep it for au gratin potatoes.
Easy Instant Scalloped Potatoes
The easiest way to impress the whole family with minimal effort can be found in this easy instant scalloped potatoes recipe. The easiest way to make scalloped potatoes, or any potato recipe, really, is with an Instant Pot.
Instant Pots use a combination of high pressure, heat, and steam to make potato recipes in a shorter amount of time. Even a baked potato can cook in an Instant Pot in less than 25 minutes. This recipe is similar in that it takes only 25 minutes, if that, to complete.
The most difficult part will be preparing the potatoes for cooking. After that, everything is a breeze. There are a few more steps to turn the Instant Pot scalloped potatoes into potatoes au gratin.
However, they are simple steps that anyone can do, even in a hurry. The best scalloped potatoes are just a few short steps away!
Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes Ingredients
- Potatoes – Yukon Golds or Russet potatoes work best in a dish like this. We want the starch in the potatoes to help thicken the creamy sauce. Other potatoes won’t have enough starch to make the cheesy sauce a cheesy cream sauce.
- Garlic – Garlic is in pretty much everything, as it adds savory flavor and a hint of spice to recipes. Here, it adds more flavor to the potatoes.
- Butter – Butter is used to help increase the richness of the thick sauces we use in instant scalloped potatoes.
- Sour Cream – The cheesy goodness is more enjoyable with a creamy sauce, and that means we need both sour cream and heavy cream.
- Vegetable Broth – You can just as easily use chicken broth or even beef broth for this ingredient. It helps make tender potatoes and will leave behind flavor as it turns to steam in the Instant Pot.
- Sharp Cheddar Cheese – The cheese sauce can be made using different types of cheese if you’d like, though cheddar and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese are the two most commonly used.
- Heavy Cream – The cream will thicken up as it cooks, creating thick, creamy, cheesy potatoes.
- Paprika – We only need a few seasonings in this dish to increase the flavor and turn these sliced potatoes into a dish good enough to pair with prime rib.
- Oregano – Oregano adds more earthiness to the dish, making for golden brown deliciousness in every bite.
- Salt and Pepper – Season your food with salt and pepper to taste to finish off the dish.
How to Make Scalloped Potatoes in an Instant Pot
- Turn the Instant Pot to Sauté and add butter to melt.
- Add minced garlic and sauté until lightly browned.
- Add peeled and sliced potatoes to the pot along with broth, salt, and pepper, and mix well.
- Secure the lid and make sure the steam release valves are closed. Pressure cook for 1 minute. When the time beeps, wait 5 minutes and then release pressure.
- Preheat oven to the broiler setting
- Remove potatoes and put them into a baking dish along with the liquid.
- Pour heavy cream evenly over potatoes.
- Add sour cream and spread evenly over potatoes.
- Sprinkle the mixture of seasoning and the grated cheese.
- Transfer the baking dish to the oven and broil for approximately 3 to 4 minutes or until the top forms a brown crust and the cheese is melted.
- Remove from the oven and serve warm.
How to Store/Reheat Scalloped Potatoes
This easy instant scalloped potatoes recipe is one of the most delicious recipes to be made with potatoes. It takes a fraction of the time to make from the first step to the last as well.
This makes it harder to toss any of the leftover Yukon Gold potatoes once everyone has stuffed themselves with dinner. Luckily, we can store any leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Let them cool completely before closing the lid of the container and placing them in the fridge. Reheating won’t be as simple as placing them in the microwave, but the little extra effort is worth it.
Toss them in an oven-safe dish and let them cook in an oven at 350°F for 10 minutes or until hot enough for your taste. It won’t take much time at all to reheat the potatoes. The best part is, the flavor may be even stronger the second time around.
Easy Instant Scalloped Potatoes: Creamy Comfort in 30 Minutes
Ingredients
- 5-6 Medium Sized Potatoes, Peeled and Sliced
- 1 1/2 Tsp Garlic, Minced
- 2 Tbsp Butter
- 2 Tbsp Sour Cream
- 1 Cup Vegetable Broth
- 1 Cup Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Grated
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
- 1 Tsp Paprika
- 1/2 Tsp Ground Pepper
- 1/2 Tsp Dried Oregano
- Salt to Taste
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to Sauté and add butter to melt.
- Add minced garlic and sauté until lightly browned.
- Add peeled and sliced potatoes to the pot along with broth and salt u0026 pepper, mix well.
- Secure lid and make sure steam releases are closed. Pressure cook for 1 minute. When time beeps wait 5 minutes and then release pressure.
- Preheat oven to the broiler setting
- Remove potatoes and put into a baking dish along with liquid.
- Pour heavy cream evenly over potatoes.
- Add sour cream and spread evenly over potatoes.
- Sprinkle the mixture of seasoning and the grated cheese.
- Transfer the baking dish to the oven and broil for approximately 3 to 4 minutes or until the top forms a brown crust and cheese is melted.
- Remove from the oven and serve warm.
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