Hasselback Potatoes – Barefeet within the Ki...

Roasted ’til crispy with a signature accordion look, Hasselback Potatoes are a favourite in our home. They’re deceptively straightforward to make utilizing a few easy ideas, and so they add just a little aptitude to your facet dish recreation.

What are Hasselback Potatoes?

This distinctive-looking technique of making ready potatoes originated in Stockholm, Sweden within the Nineteen Fifties on the Hasselbacken Restaurant. Whereas they appear fussy, they’re actually fairly easy to organize for those who use one straightforward to recollect trick.

Lay a chopstick alongside both facet of the potato. This lets you slice via the potato at intervals with out slicing all the way in which to the underside. Doing this retains the slices related on the base which makes the potato fan out because it bakes.

This in flip permits the outer edges to crisp up whereas the within stays creamy and tender. I believe we will all agree that that is the perfect state for a potato to attain. Potatoes endlessly!

It took me lower than 3 minutes to prep these, because of the chopstick tip that I stumbled onto years in the past whereas searching Chris’ mouthwatering weblog, Nibble Me This.

Hasselback Potato Recipe

These potatoes have infinite seasoning prospects. More often than not, although, my purpose is a quite simple potato with simply salt and pepper and it yields among the best roasted potatoes I’ve ever eaten.

To make this recipe, you’ll want the next substances:

• Russet potatoes
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper

KITCHEN TIP: These potatoes reheat very effectively. I usually make them within the morning (if I’m already working within the kitchen) and simply stash them within the fridge till time for dinner. I pop them within the sizzling oven to reheat for about 10 minutes, whereas I’m making the remainder of our dinner.

Hasselback Potatoes

Preheat the oven to 400°F. Wash and dry the potatoes. Slice the potatoes very thinly, virtually throughout in 1/8″ intervals.

Set the sliced potatoes on a sheet pan. Drizzle every potato with olive oil, in between the slices and over the outside of the potatoes. Sprinkle generously with kosher salt.

Roast for 40 minutes after which take away from oven. Let cool simply barely earlier than consuming.

As a result of I like an awesome sauce addition to a meal, I usually drizzle a hasselback potato with ranch dressing or tangy barbecue sauce – these potatoes are nice nevertheless you select to serve them!

Serve your hasselback potatoes with Garlic Butter Steak Bites, Pan Fried Chicken, or Balsamic Dijon Pork Chops for a fairly superior meal.

Toss collectively this Brussels Sprouts Salad (it’s sooo good!) or serve your meal with a facet of Maple Glazed Carrots and also you’ll have a dinner everybody loves.

{initially revealed 10/7/11 – recipe notes and pictures up to date 11/18/24}