This Duchesse potato recipe is a wonderful way to use leftover mashed potatoes. It’s an easy potato casserole recipe and great make ahead potatoes recipe.
I love these potatoes for entertaining. You can make the mashed potatoes the day before and just make them into Duchesse potatoes when you are about to serve them.
I love anything that makes entertaining easier on the cook. I do love to entertain but when you have a lot of dishes that need attention at the same time, it gets a bit overwhelming, for me at least.
Tip
If you want to go all out and make this recipe look amazing, use a wide cake decorating tip to make pretty fluted piles of the potatoes before baking (as in the photo above).
If you are more like me, baking it in the casserole dish is just fine. Although I have to admit I love the look of the little piles of potatoes that are just a bit browned on the top. They look so beautiful.
Either way it is a great way to prepare mashed potatoes to look a bit “grander” for entertaining.
I hope you enjoy this variation on mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes, but it’s nice to have something just a bit different once in a while.
Duchesse Potato Recipe
Ingredients
- one batch of mashed potatoes
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
Instructions
- Prepare a batch of mashed potatoes or use leftover potatoes, brought to room temperature.
- Add 1 well beaten egg to the mashed potatoes.
- Butter a square glass baking dish. Put in potatoes, spreading them evenly in the pan. You can add a few peaks to create interest. Brush top of potatoes with melted butter.
- If you have a pastry or piping bag, you can pipe the potatoes into pretty rosettes like the ones pictured above.
- Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until potatoes are heated through and top is brown.
- Note: You only need to bake the potatoes for about 10 minutes if you pipe them into small, serving size rounds.
Serves about 6, but multiplies easily to serve as many as you like.
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