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Smashed Potatoes
This has become our favorite way to eat a potato. Crispy, brown and crunchy and so delicious! If we are having a gang in, I make little red potatoes and serve them on a platter with cheese sauce, sour cream - (gluten and dairy free yogurt for me), bacon bits, chopped peppers, grilled mushrooms and onions, salsa and spices.
Smashed potatoes make great appetizers, or dinners if you use the larger Yukon Gold potatoes.
You need to start with tender cooked potatoes. If it is just 2 or 3 potatoes, you can cook them in the microwave. For a larger number, just gently boil until tender. Once cooked, you can proceed to make "Smashed Potatoes".
If you would like to see a step-by-step procedure of this recipe with pictures, please visit my MFP blog:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/nortx
Done to perfection!
Serve with Greek yogurt or Horseradish sauce or Sour Cream, bacon crumbles, blue cheese crumbles, shredded Pepper Jack cheese!
Smashed Potatoes
Ingredients:
- potatoes (use Yukon Gold or red) - cooked tender in the microwave or in water on the stove
- olive oil
- seasonings to your taste: salt, pepper, garlic, onion, paprika, parsley
Preparation:
1, Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Lightly brush a cookie sheet with a little olive oil (this helps to brown and crisp the bottoms)
3. Lightly cut an "X" into the top of each potato and place on the oiled cookie sheet
4. Use a large fork, potato masher or even the bottom of a glass to gently "smash" down the potato. Don't make it too thin.... something like a thick burger size
5. Lightly brush some olive oil on the tops of the smashed potatoes and sprinkle on seasoning
6. Cook for 45 minutes at 400 degrees. The bottoms and cut edges will brown and crisp
7. You can add some crumbled bacon and sharp shredded cheese during the last 5 minutes.
8. Serve and enjoy!
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Smashed potatoes make great appetizers, or dinners if you use the larger Yukon Gold potatoes.
You need to start with tender cooked potatoes. If it is just 2 or 3 potatoes, you can cook them in the microwave. For a larger number, just gently boil until tender. Once cooked, you can proceed to make "Smashed Potatoes".
If you would like to see a step-by-step procedure of this recipe with pictures, please visit my MFP blog:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/nortx
Done to perfection!
Serve with Greek yogurt or Horseradish sauce or Sour Cream, bacon crumbles, blue cheese crumbles, shredded Pepper Jack cheese!
Smashed Potatoes
Ingredients:
- potatoes (use Yukon Gold or red) - cooked tender in the microwave or in water on the stove
- olive oil
- seasonings to your taste: salt, pepper, garlic, onion, paprika, parsley
Preparation:
1, Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Lightly brush a cookie sheet with a little olive oil (this helps to brown and crisp the bottoms)
3. Lightly cut an "X" into the top of each potato and place on the oiled cookie sheet
4. Use a large fork, potato masher or even the bottom of a glass to gently "smash" down the potato. Don't make it too thin.... something like a thick burger size
5. Lightly brush some olive oil on the tops of the smashed potatoes and sprinkle on seasoning
6. Cook for 45 minutes at 400 degrees. The bottoms and cut edges will brown and crisp
7. You can add some crumbled bacon and sharp shredded cheese during the last 5 minutes.
8. Serve and enjoy!
:flowerforyou:
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Look yummy! I'll have to try them.0
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Wow, sounds great! I bet the kids love them too.0
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The look and sound wonderful, will certainly try them!0
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bump for later....these sound delicious
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Bump!!
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Bump for potatoes0
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Wow, sounds great! I bet the kids love them too.
Yes the kids love them.... We bought a bag of tiny red potatoes and cooked them up this way. My three year old granddaughter likes them with a bit of grape jelly and was proud to show us how she could fit the whole potato in her mouth at one time!0 -
Looks yummy!0
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It should be a crime to tempt us like this.
These gold mines look delish. Sour cream and all. Yum.0 -
Sounds yummy. Love potatoes 0
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yeah sound good! bump0
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Looks delish, though for me I'll have to put my spin on it since I'm doing a low-carb diet and sub out those yoummy potatoes with Cauliflower! Thanks for the idea.
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Wow! Looks super yummy. I'm gonna try these, but definitely on a day that I burned alot of calories.0
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looks fantastic0
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bump. Looks amazing and I think that it will taste just as amazing!!0
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Oh man... yummmmmmmmmm!!!!0
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Bump! These look great!0
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yummmmmmmm. will try this weekend0
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Thanks! These look yummy and I hope not too full of calories! LOL in Montana0
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Bump!0
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A large potato has about 250 calories. Add some yogurt or spices and you are still looking at a meal around 300 calories... and with incredible amounts of Potassium. We eat this as a meal. My DH adds some shredded cheese and I use some plain dairy free yogurt. It's actually a low calorie dinner - under 300 calories. As appetizers using tiny potatoes - again is low in calories and crispy and finger food. Definitely a crowd pleaser. Make them for the guys watching sports... they will love them.
Let me know how this recipe works for y'all.0 -
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I think I'm drooling on my keyboard :laugh:0
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Looks so good! I looked at your blog, so many things look good , have book marked yet. I wanna try that chicken sweetcorn coup, my fave!0
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