Delicious creamy Kumara & Potato Bake, elevate your side dishes to a new level with this delicious recipe

 

A wonderful variation to my popular scalloped potatoes dish by adding Kumara, or sweet potato, along with a cheesey garlicy creamy sauce. I hope you enjoy this easy version.

 

What is Kumara?

For those not in New Zealand, Kumara is also known as Sweet Potato, it comes in many varieties, the most common being the red version with a red skin and creamy white flesh.

 

The version I love using in my cooking is the orange kumara (known officially as Beauregard) with both orange skin and flesh, it is sweeter than other varieties. You can also get gold, and purple varieties. 

 

I have combined a lovely red potato today that is perfect for baking and roasting with orange Kumara to make this lovely Kumara & Potato Bake. It is super easy to make, along with a lovely garlic sauce the bakes with the dish. 

 

The ingredients you will need are: Please scroll down to the printable recipe card for full ingredients and method

• Potatoes, those suitable for roasting or baking

• Kumara

• Butter

• Garlic

• Plain White Flour

• Chicken Stock

• Milk

• Thyme or other dried herb

• Salt & Pepper

• Cheese

   

 

 

To make this recipe you will first need to make the creamy garlic sauce. To do this you follow a very similar process to making a white sauce, with a butter and garlic base, then adding flour to make a roux, then adding chicken stock, milk and seasoning. 

 

To prepare the potato and Kumara I use my food processor as I have a fitting that allows me to thinly slice vegetables, this makes this step much easier. You can also use a mandolin or very carefully slice thinly the vegetables using a sharp knife. 

 

Then you set about assembling the bake, in a roasting dish I layer potatoes and kumara, then sprinkle over some cheese then half the sauce, then the remainder of the potatoes and kumara, before finishing with cheese and the sauce.

 

You can choose how you layer this dish, creating clear layers for each vegetable or mixing it up to create a pattern. I like to lay a few layers of potatoes then kumara then repeating to finish with a potato topping, this way the final layer is potatoes which tend to hold up to baking without burning better than kumara. 

 

Then you bake covered for 30 minutes then uncovered for 30-60 minutes. All ovens are different and this dish in particular can take longer to cook than you think due to the nature of the different potatoes available and how quickly they cook.

 

Once the dish is golden brown and the potatoes and kumara are fully cooked through then you can remove from the oven. You need the finished dish to sit for 15 minutes once baked to allow the sauce to thicken and set, delicious served warm.

Then serve along side a roast dinner, or your favourite meat and vegetables. 

 

This makes a wonderful dish to take to a dinner or a pot luck, it can be made a day ahead and then reheated the following day if you are short on time. 

If you want more delicious side dish ideas check out some of my favorites below

Scalloped Potatoes

Roasted Kumara, Carrot & Orange Salad

Easy Perfect Roast Potatoes

Kumara & Bacon Salad

 

I hope you love this recipe for a Kumara Potato Bake

I hope you enjoy this delicious recipe, I love adapting recipes to make them easy to recreate in your own home. This is the perfect dish to take to summer BBQ’s, winter shared meals or just a standard weekly addition to your families table.

 

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Happy Cooking!

Anna

 

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