Or to leave a comment, click here! This post may contain affiliate links. Fresh herbs, oven roasted frozen broccoli and olive oil make these oven roasted potatoes the most delicious side dish!
Crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside, Roasted Potatoes are an easy side dish that goes with pretty much any meal! Add your favorite seasonings based on what’s in your spice cupboard or what herbs are growing in your garden! Oven Roasted Potatoes are a very simple but delicious side dish that goes with pretty much any meal! Why We Love This Recipe These oven-roasted potatoes are very easy to make, so you can have a delicious side dish with minimal work!
You can use dried herbs but if you have fresh on hand, by all means, use them! I find the high temperature can cause fresh garlic to burn so roasted potatoes is one of the only places I really like to use garlic powder in place of fresh. Feel free to be creative with the seasonings on these easy oven potatoes, they go great with pretty much anything! What Kind of Potatoes to Use To be completely honest, you can use ANY kind of potato for roasting including red skinned, russets, Yukon gold and even sweet potatoes. To Peel or Not to Peel?
While you can peel potatoes before roasting, you definitely do not need to peel them! I personally love the flavor the skin from russet or Idaho potatoes add and I love the look and color of red skin potatoes too! If you’re using small potatoes, you can cut them in half or if they’re tiny, you can just give them a little poke with a fork or knife before baking to allow the steam to escape. How to Roast Potatoes As much as I love Twice Baked Potatoes, making oven-roasted potatoes is so incredibly simple that it’s my go-to side dish! My mom taught me to soak cut potatoes if time allows, this removes some of the starch and helps them to crisp while being fluffy inside.