Recipe: Tasty Smashed Garlic Potatoes

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Smashed Garlic Potatoes. This garlic smashed potatoes recipe is all about the technique, but the flavor profile is infinitely adaptable. Try bacon and cheddar, ranch seasoning, or BRIE. Crispy Garlic Butter Parmesan Smashed Potatoes are the most delicious side dish!

Smashed Garlic Potatoes Preparation Generously butter glass pie dish. These mouthwatering smashed potatoes are tossed in a garlic butter mixture and baked until golden and crispy. Smashed Potatoes baked with garlic, olive oil and herbs, fluffy in the middle and truly crispy on the top!! You can cook Smashed Garlic Potatoes using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Smashed Garlic Potatoes

  1. Prepare of Small Potatoes.
  2. You need of Olive oil.
  3. It's of Salt.
  4. It's of Pepper.
  5. It's of Rosemary.
  6. Prepare of Parmesan.
  7. Prepare of Italian Seasoning (or some other herbs).

Arrange potatoes close together in prepared dish. Using wooden spoon, smash potatoes coarsely until they split open. Drizzle with oil; dot with butter. Oven-roasted in butter, smashed with garlic and minced chives.

Smashed Garlic Potatoes instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees..
  2. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add in as many potatoes as you wish to make and cook them until they are fork-tender..
  3. Drizzle a sheet pan with olive oil. Place tender potatoes on the sheet pan, leaving plenty of room between each potato..
  4. With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly smashes. Rotate masher 90 degrees and repeat. Drizzle or brush the tops of each potato with more olive oil..
  5. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, herbs, and parmesan..
  6. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and sizzling..

Okay, so "smashed" potatoes are sometimes considered just a lazy way of making mashed potatoes. These garlic mashed potatoes are rich and very tasty! Combine potatoes with milk, butter, garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix with an electric mixer or potato masher to your desired consistency. Drain the potatoes and garlic and set them aside until they are cool enough to handle- do not let the potatoes become cold.