Hasselback Potatoes – Barefeet within the Kitchen

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, they usually add a little bit aptitude to your aspect dish recreation.

What are Hasselback Potatoes?

This distinctive-looking methodology of getting ready potatoes originated in Stockholm, Sweden within the Nineteen Fifties on the Hasselbacken Restaurant. Whereas they appear fussy, they’re actually fairly easy to arrange when you use one straightforward to recollect trick.

Lay a chopstick alongside both aspect of the potato. This lets you slice by way of the potato at intervals with out slicing all the way in which to the underside. Doing this retains the slices linked 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 are able to all agree that that is the best state for a potato to attain. Potatoes endlessly!

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

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These potatoes have infinite seasoning potentialities. More often than not, although, my aim is a quite simple potato with simply salt and pepper and it yields top-of-the-line 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 typically make them within the morning (if I’m already working within the kitchen) and simply stash them within the fridge till dinner time. I pop them within the scorching 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, nearly right through 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 excellent sauce addition to a meal, I typically drizzle a hasselback potato with ranch dressing or tangy barbecue sauce – these potatoes are nice nonetheless you select to serve them!

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

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

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