Ingredients
For 6 servings:
- 500 gr of yams
- ½ chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 200 ml unsweetened condensed milk
- 200 ml of whole or semi-skimmed milk
- 1 teaspoon of butter
- Thyme
- Nutmeg
- Salt
- Pepper
Preparation
- Peel the yam and cut it into pieces.
- Cook it in boiling water in a casserole dish for about twenty minutes.
- Remove the yam from the water
- Using a vegetable mill, press the yam into a puree.
- In a frying pan, put a knob of butter then the onion previously minced and brown it.
- Add the pressed garlic and leave on the heat for 3, 4 minutes.
- Pour the two milks on the mixture.
- Add salt and pepper.
- Pour in the yam puree, mix by cooking over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Add a pinch of grated nutmeg and thyme.
- Mix until the gratin is soft and smooth while remaining thick.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- In a gratin dish pour the mixture and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Cook for about twenty minutes on the "oven" position then on the "broil" position to melt the cheese.
- Once the cheese is melted and golden, remove the dish from the oven and let cool.
- It's ready !