French Onion Soup Potato Bake Recipe

G’day potato bake lovers, Greg here. Now today I’ve got a special recipe for you. Now this potato bake, my sister brings to Christmas dinners like every year and everyone always loves it. For another hearty meal, try our easy crock pot beef tips and gravy.

Why You’ll Love This

And the beauty about it is that it’s so easy to make with hardly any ingredients. It’s the French onion soup potato bake. This dish is perfect for a satisfying dinner, much like our easy garlic butter steak bites recipe.

Ingredients

• an onion
• three or four potatoes
• a packet of French onion soup
• 600 mils worth of thickened cream (about 20 fluid ounces)
• some shredded cheddar cheese
• some oil
• some pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, which is about 350 degrees fahrenheit.
2. Cut the potatoes into fairly thin slices, just a couple of millimetres thick. You might want to cut the dead bits off. For more potato cooking ideas, check out our easy crispy air fryer potatoes recipe.
3. Cut the onion into thin slices.
4. Grab a bowl, or maybe a jug might be even better. Add the French onion soup mix.
5. Grab our cream, just pour that in, and mix it through.
6. Grab a baking tray. Spray some oil into the bottom, just to stop the potato sticking.
7. Start with our first layer of potatoes. Try and fill in all the gaps. Try and totally cover the bottom if you can. You can snap bits in half if you need to.
8. Throw some onions, just a couple of rings of that.
9. Pour over some of this liquid, so it covers the potatoes. If you enjoy creamy dishes, consider making this easy traditional Irish vegetable soup.
10. Start again with the next layer of potatoes.
11. Add the next layer of onions.
12. For the final layer, pour all this cream, all the rest of this liquid over the potato bake here.
13. Add a bit of pepper.
14. Grab your cheese and sprinkle a layer of that over the top.
15. Stick it on the middle shelf.
16. Let that cook for about one hour, one hour and 10 minutes.
17. After an hour come back, turn the oven off and just let it sit there for about another 10 months.
18. Let it cool down for a bit.
19. Cut this up.

Cooking Tips

If you’re really concerned, depending on the cheese, some cheese might burn a little easier. So you might want to add this about halfway during the cook. But I’m going to add it on now because I don’t mind if it’s a little bit crispy.

If you are concerned about that cheese burning, about halfway through, you can pull it out, then add the cheese or you can just put some aluminium foil on top and that should stop that from burning. Or getting crispy as I like to go.

Serving Suggestions

You’re going to need to ladle it into a bowl.

Oh man, those potatoes are so tender that onion is cooked beautifully. It is so creamy and so delicious. Well, it’s definitely a nice, easy meal that anyone can make and it’s really cheap too. For another simple weeknight option, try our easy one-pan ground beef and rice. And only costs like maybe five bucks to make. Well, thanks for watching. If you do make it, I’d love to know what you thought about yours and I’ll see you next time. I cook something. See you then.