Garlic Smashed Potatoes
These potatoes are incredibly tender on the inside yet amazingly crisp on the outside – the perfect side dish to any meal!
I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day. Jason and I couldn’t manage to get those dinner reservations so he surprised me with a very fancy take-out dinner from Grégoire. It was actually just as romantic as we sat on our couch in our pajamas, devouring our deep fried quails while watching The Hangover. But now that this holiday is out of the way, let’s talk potatoes.
Now if you’ve never had smashed potatoes before, you are in for quite a treat. It’s pretty much the best kind of potato side dish you could ever have – fluffy on the inside yet incredibly crisp on the outside. Couple that with some garlic goodness and fresh thyme, and it is absolute perfection. It’s so good, you’ll want to devour it all without a main dish!
Garlic Smashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds baby yellow potatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Lightly oil a baking sheet or coat with nonstick spray.
- Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with cold salted water by 1 inch. Bring to a boil and simmer until just tender, about 15 minutes; drain well and let cool slightly.
- Place potatoes onto the prepared baking sheet. Using a flat dry measuring cup or glass, carefully smash the potatoes until flattened but still in one piece. Top with olive oil, garlic and thyme.
- Place into oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown and crisp.
- Serve immediately.
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These smashed potatoes were absolutely delicious! Didn’t even salt them and they came out great. Perfect side for my steak dinner, thanks for sharing.
Question: could I boil the potatoes the day before and refrigerate them until the next day?
So good! Made these tonight for dinner and my husband said should make hem again! Thank you for tje great recipe!!
Wow i can’t spell tonight lol
So good I made them three days in a row. Over season them…lots of garlic, onion, salt, pepper, and rosemary!!!!
This has now become a reoccurring request!
Loved your potato recipe. Love the name of your site!
Delicious! Easy preparation, yet so tasty! Family loves these potatoes!
This recipe is easy and the potatoes come out perfect!!! I dripped a little butter and parmesan cheese over the potatoes and broiled for 2-3 minutes. So easy and so good. I love the pictures before the recipe for we non readers of instructions to the tee. THANK YOU!!!!
So dam good…this is my go to recipe for sure. .you will definately make this one again! I will : )
I love this recipe, so delicious!! garlic is the best
So damn good and more importantly, so simple to make! Love your easy to follow directions, these are a hit with my husband!
Love them, we smash them with the palm of your hand. Add garlic and rosemary to water when you boil the potatoes.
Obsessed with these! It’s become my go-to potato recipe. The crispness and flavor really come through when the potatoes are flattened.
Really good !
I made these and served them with Tri-tip steak. They were a perfect side for the steak. I put them under the broiler for 2 minutes before pulling them out of the oven and it gave them a nice crispness without burning the garlic or thyme.
I made this tonight with 40 cloves of Garlic chicken… so good. Obviously didn’t add the garlic but added the salt and pepper with the olive oil (recipe not clear had to look at the pictures) and cooked for 35 mins on 220 c. Was perfect. Thank you!
These were perfection.
It was not very flavourful. I followed the directions exactly and it was pretty bland. I ended up encouraging people to use salt and pepper.
Amazing recipe! Huge hit with the family! Substituted out the Thyne with Rosemary.
Served with roasted Parmesan Brussel sprouts and grilled steak.
Just enough leftovers for the kids school lunch tomorrow.
Could I use russet potatoes??
Russet potatoes may be too large to “smash”.
Bacon, chives and blue cheese crumbles! And the tiniest of potatoes for the best bites!!
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