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These garlic parmesan smashed potatoes are going to be your new favorite side dish. Oven roasted smashed potatoes that are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, then topped with delicious garlic and parmesan! This smashed potato recipe will be the only way you will want to eat potatoes.
I’ve seen them made before and thought they looked good, but always brushed them off. Well let me just tell you.. do not wait another minute to make these! They are so addicting, half of them didn’t even make it onto the plate because we were eating them straight off the pan.
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I always talk about how therapeutic cooking is for me and whats better to relieve stress than smashing potatoes? I had too much fun smushing these little taters. Don’t get too carried away though or else they will burst into pieces (oops, did that like 3 times).
So what are you waiting for? Let’s make these garlic parmesan smashed potatoes for dinner tonight!
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Things you’ll need:Â Large sheet pan, microwavable dish, plastic wrap, microplane/grater
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Garlic Parmesan Smashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb of small potatoes
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 3-4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 3 tbsp fresh grated Parmesan
- 2 tbsp flat leaf parsley (chopped)
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Instructions
- Place potatoes in an oven safe bowl with 1/2in of water, cover with plastic wrap and poke holes, then microwave for 15-20min (checking after 10min, replenish water if needed, till they can be pierced with a fork). Drain and let cool.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees and arrange oven rack closest to the bottom coil as possible.
- On a sheet pan, spread the olive oil and half the salt & pepper. Take the potato and use a flat surface (I used my metal measuring cup) to smash the potato, be gentle so it doesn’t fully fall apart. Do this to all the potatoes. Take the garlic and sprinkle on top of the potatoes along with the rest of the salt and pepper.
- Put in oven for 10-15 and then flip and cook another 10-15 min until potatoes are crispy not burnt. Remove from oven and using a microplane/fine grater, grate fresh Parmesan on top and add chopped parsley on top. Enjoy!
Notes
- -Exercise care when smashing potatoes so they do not fully crumble into pieces
- -Adjust oven rack to be as close to the bottom as possible or if you do not have a coil on the bottom you can place on the floor of oven as well.
This is one of my all time favorite recipes EVER. It’s super easy and is a fun twist to just normal potatoes. I made a bunch with the hopes to have leftovers for lunch the next day but my boyfriend and I ended up eating all of them instead haha. YOU SHOULD MAKE THEM, they do not disappoint.