Best Potato Recipes. 20 amazingly delicious tater recipes that add plenty of great flavour to our most used side dish ingredient. Banish boring spuds forever!
Best Potato Recipes. 20 Delicious Ideas!
Originally published Jan 2011.
Potatoes are a ubiquitous ingredient in almost every single home I know. They can go from breakfast hash browns to Sunday supper roasties, to creamy mashed with ease in their purist state.
Potatoes are probably the most versatile vegetable we have. Here on Rock Recipes we have almost 50 recipes with potatoes as an ingredient!
These recipes feature the humble potato front and centre though. This is a collection that uses them in a number of ways as a delicious side dish.
You can’t really have too many great recipes for potatoes. Banish the plain boring boiled spud for any one of these tasty alternatives.
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Best Potato Recipes
Best Potato Recipes. No need to suffer boring boiled spuds, these amazingly delicious tater recipes add plenty of great flavour to the most used side dish ingredient.
Creamy Parmesan Bacon Potatoes - inspired by an incredible steak house side dish, these potatoes are absolutely indulgent and irresistible. Hash brown potatoes get tossed with crisp cooked bacon and a creamy Parmesan sauce.
How to Make Perfect Roasted Potatoes (English Style Roast Potatoes) - forget mashed!...roast those potatoes! Learn how to create a crispy outside with a steaming fluffy inside every time. Great with roast chicken, beef or pork and wonderful served with roasted garlic and sour cream. Soooo delicious.
These incredible potato cakes are maybe the best use of leftover mashed potatoes yet. Serve with poached eggs for a terrific brunch too.
Deviled Egg Potato Salad. Just one of over 20 potato and pasta salad suggestions included in our Newfoundland Cold Plate post!
Warm Grilled Potato Salad with Lemon and Oregano - A tasty, warm grilled potato salad with plenty of bright fresh flavours in the dressing and finished with some crumbled feta cheese.
Alfredo Scalloped Potatoes - this incredibly delicious side dish is ideal to serve with herb roasted chicken or pork or with a perfectly glazed Sunday ham.
Smash Roasted Potatoes - Crispy potatoes roasted in their skins; this versatile recipe can be made to suit whatever main dishes with which you are serving them.
Potatoes Dauphinoise with Gruyere & Thyme - in reality Dauphinoise is just a posh word for scalloped potatoes but in this recipe the method is easier and the flavour even better.
These Lemon Herb Roasted Potato Nuggets are a terrific side dish with many meals like any roast chicken or lamb dinner or to serve with Greek Souvlaki.
Garlic Thyme Fondant Potatoes - a homey yet elegant side dish that proves delicious taste never goes out of fashion. Perfect for dinner parties or Sunday dinner.
Twice Baked Potatoes with Smoked Cheddar & Thyme. Baked potato stuffed with creamy mashed potatoes that have been infused with the flavours of roasted garlic, smoked cheddar and thyme. The perfect side dish for a decadent steak dinner.
Creamy Dijon Garlic Potatoes Dauphinoise - are easy to prepare and provide a subtly flavoured, creamy, indulgent side dish for your Easter ham, lamb or practically any roast dinner.
Crispy Baked Wedge Fries. Learn the secret to getting all the flavour and crispiness of fried potatoes wedges from the oven using this simple straight forward method.
Smoked Cheddar Duchess Potatoes. One of the most luxurious, indulgent and most flavourful potato side dishes you will ever sample.
Garlic Parmesan Potato Latkes. As a terrific side dish or with a weekend brunch, nothing beats these flavourful crispy potato pancakes.
Lemon Tzatziki Potato Salad. A fantastic side dish potato salad that uses low fat yogurt in place of mayonnaise for a tasty Greek inspired flavour twist.
These crispy, buttery, garlicky potatoes make an ideal side dish to serve with so may of your favourite main dishes.
Roasted Garlic and Lemon Duchess Potatoes – golden crusted, creamy duchess potatoes with sweet roasted garlic and a hint of lemon.
Tomato Parmesan Roasted Potatoes – another very versatile side dish to go with grilled chicken, pork or even fish. It is a particular favourite side dish on steak night at our house too.
Smoked Paprika Roasted Potatoes - you'll want to serve these roast potatoes with everything from lamb to chicken souvlaki and more. Simple, flavourful and perfectly golden crispy. Delicious with your favourite tzatziki as a dip too.
Geri Sullivan
Thursday 1st of January 2026
Happy 2026 to Barry and family!!🥅🏒