Smashed Potatoes Recipe
How to make incredible smashed potatoes at home.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 16 medium potatoes cleaned but unpeeled, preferably Yukon Golds
- olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450° F.
- Scrub the potatoes until the skins are clean and free from eyes.
- Boil the potatoes whole in a pot of heavily salted water until you can easily insert a fork into the potato, but before it breaks apart.
- Drain and cool for 10 minutes.
- Place the whole, boiled potatoes on an ungreased baking sheet. Using a flat tool like a meat pounder or the bottom of a heavy saucepan, add steady pressure to each potato until it is flattened to about ¼ inch thick. It will look like a tray of round, brown, flat cakes.
- Drizzle olive oil generously on the potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Roast in a 450°F oven for 35-40 minutes.
- Remove from oven and serve immediately.