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Quick number: Recipe for a creamy casserole with leeks, potatoes and cheese
Creamy, warming and aromatic: leeks are at their best in this delicious recipe.
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Leek doesn’t just look good as part of the soup greens. In this creamy casserole with potatoes and cheese it becomes the main actor – and all with just under 15 minutes of preparation time. The recipe.
In the cold season it shows its best side: leek – or leek, as the vegetable is also often called. In creamy stews, soups or as a delicious ingredient in pan-fried dishes, the green onion plant with its intense, strong note provides a lot of pep.
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Leek is not only tasty, but also incredibly healthy and, with the nutrients it contains, can definitely serve as an immune booster during the cold season: Vitamin B and C as well as plenty of calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphate, potassium and silicon make leeks a nutrient bomb that skillfully fights off viruses and germs.
Enough reasons to give these long-established vegetables a chance. In a creamy casserole with With potatoes and cheese, leeks make their grand appearance. It only takes a few ingredients and hardly any effort to prepare this tasty recipe. Perfect for the end of the day.
Recipe for a quick casserole with leeks, potatoes and cheese
Ingredients for four servings
2 cloves of garlic
1 kg potatoes, mainly waxy
3 stalks of leeks
3 eggs
150 ml vegetable broth
200 ml cream
1 pinch of nutmeg
1 tsp thyme
Salt pepper
80 g grated cheese e.g. Emmental, mountain cheese
preparation
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees top/bottom heat.
Peel the garlic cloves and chop finely. Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin slices/plane them with a vegetable slicer. Clean the leek and cut into slices about 0.5 centimeters thick.
Layer leeks and potatoes alternately in a baking dish.
Mix the garlic cloves with eggs, vegetable broth, cream, nutmeg, thyme and salt and pepper.
Pour over the layered vegetables.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes. Sprinkle generously with the grated cheese and bake for another 20 minutes until the cheese is golden brown.
Fits to: A green salad.
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