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Sweet potato, chicken breast and mushroom gratin

An everyday dish for 2, ready in 50 minutes, around $3.06 a serving. People actually plan it with Popotam, and it's in season in October.

50mintotal
≈ $3.06a serving
541kcalper serving
45gof protein
In season in OctoberFreezes well
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Step-by-step recipe

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  1. Preheat the oven

    Turn the oven on to 200 °C, convection if you have it. Lightly butter the baking dish with some of the 10 g of butter.

  2. Prep the veggies

    Peel the sweet potato and cut it into 5 mm rounds. Slice the onion, clean the mushrooms and slice them. Cut the chicken breasts into 2 cm pieces.

  3. Parboil the sweet potatoes

    Drop the rounds into a saucepan of salted boiling water, fully covered, and cook 5 min. Drain them well in the colander.

    Tip · Pull the rounds out as soon as a knife goes in but they're still firm, since they finish cooking in the oven and fall apart fast if you leave them too long.
  4. Brown the chicken

    Melt the rest of the butter in the skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the chicken pieces for 5 min, stirring, season with salt and pepper, then set them aside on a plate.

  5. Cook the onion and mushrooms

    In the same skillet, sauté the onion for 3 min, then add the mushrooms and cook 5 more min until their liquid cooks off. Put the chicken back in the skillet.

    Tip · Don't cover the skillet and don't stir the mushrooms nonstop, so they brown instead of boiling in their own liquid.
  6. Make the sauce

    Off the heat, add the 8 cl of crème fraîche and the 5 cl of milk to the skillet. Stir, add pepper, and taste before adding more salt.

  7. Build the gratin

    Spread half of the sweet potato rounds in the dish, pour in all of the chicken mixture, then cover with the rest of the rounds. Sprinkle with the 50 g of shredded cheese.

  8. Bake the gratin

    Bake 15 to 18 min at 200 °C, until the top is golden and the chicken is cooked through, with no pink and clear juices. Let it rest 3 min before serving.

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How many calories in a serving?

One serving has about 541 kcal. 20% comes from carbs, 33% from protein and 44% from fat.

27 gCarbs
45 gProtein
26 gFat
Per serving (the dish for 2, divided by 2)
Energy541 kcal
Protein45.1 g
Carbs27.4 g
of which sugars10.2 g
Fat26.2 g
of which saturated fat16.3 g
Fiber5.7 g
Salt0.8 g

Worked out ingredient by ingredient with the ANSES Ciqual 2025 table, never written by an AI. It's an estimate: veggie sizes and brands make the numbers vary.

How much does it cost?

About $3.06 a serving, adding up the average prices of the ingredients you need to buy.

≈ $6.12for 2 people
≈ $3.06a serving

Pantry salt, oil and spices aren't counted. Your store and your brands will move the total, but the ballpark is right.

How long does it keep?

2 days in the fridge, in a closed container, once cooled within two hours. And it freezes really well.

2 daysin the fridge
Very wellin the freezer, thaw it in the fridge the day before

Times Popotam uses for meal prep, based on ANSES guidance, rounded down. The details: how long cooked dishes keep.

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