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In a restaurant I frequent they have this side dish I really love. It's called creamy potatoes with leeks. I have tried multiple times to make a version of this, but I never got to a satisfactory result.

Basically, the potatoes are baked to a relatively soft degree with skin and are coated with thick delicious cream sauce.The potatoes are cut into wedges. There are also leeks in the mixture, which are cut to bigger pieces and seem to retain some of their crunch.

My guess is they prebake their potatoes and the toss them with some bechamel sauce and blanched leeks, but I wasn't able to prove my theory. Does anyone cook a similar sidedish and could provide a recipe? I'm not looking for just some recipe, but trying to reconstruct the technique they use. If I get the chance later, I'll try to post some photos.

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this may help a little, cream cheese with potatoes would be amazing and probably used a lot in restaurants. my guess would be cream cheese, half and half or cream, leeks, some shallots and a little butter. the potatoes should be almost baked through first, i throw them whole in the microwave and cook them almost all the way through. then i let them rest for a few and cut into pieces. pan fry them with more leeks in a little olive oil or butter on a low-med heat just to finish cooking them and crisp them up. i think that sauce would be close and i'm going to have to make it soon because now i'm curious.

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Have you had any success trying out your recipe, Alicia? – Voy Mar 26 at 8:53

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