I’ve seen the hasselback potato recipe for a few years now and believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve made them!
It couldn’t be easier. Just pre-heat your oven at 450 degrees.
Take whatever type of potato you want. I used red potato, but you can use Yukon, Russet, or whatever you like!
Take a sharp knife and make slits into the potato about 3/4 of the way through.
After making these, I saw other recipes with a tip of using a skewer or chop stick, place that through the bottom of the potato so that when you are cutting through, it acts as a barrier to cutting all the way through.
I used a glass brownie pan (8×8 pan) and I lined it with foil for easy clean up.
I did 6 potatoes, but the best part of this recipe, make however many you want.
I brushed each potato with olive oil and sea salt and coarse black pepper.
Bake for 1 hour. The outside is kind of crunchy but the inside is soft.
Check out these variations from the web:
From Food TV – these are made with bacon
Check out the recipe above HERE
From Simple Comfort Food
The above recipe has herbs and bread crumbs – check out the recipe HERE
From Serious Eats
You can even grill these! Check out the above recipe HERE
From Cook Lisa Cook
The next time I would do what Lisa from Cook Lisa Cook’s site. She made hers in a cast iron skillet and added garlic and sour cream -check out her recipe HERE
I hope that inspires you to make these potatoes soon!! It’s a great way to change things up and they aren’t hard to make at all.
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In other news, it was a sad day in my kitchen last week:
EMPTY!
My twin sister Biz gave me – no joke – a TWENTY FIVE POUND bag of flour for Christmas last year. It’s the biggest bag of flour I’ve ever seen. At first I thought she was crazy – what would I do with all that flour? I’ll tell you what I did. Made tons of bread, muffins, pancakes, waffles, whenever I wanted!
It was a running joke when I went to the store each week, I would ask my kids – “do we need any flour?”
My sister got this at either Costo or Sams Club – for only EIGHT dollars!! So for 10 months straight I used it all the time. What a great buy!! I want that for Christmas again!!!
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And if you’ve made it this far, I want to say CONGRATS to all my friends who finished the Chicago Marathon today! I watched it from the comfort of my couch today, but I ran it in 2005 and 2006 and I was just as nervous for them as if I were running it. (I’m glad I wasn’t though – it’s hard!!)
Have a great day!!!