Garlic Parmesan Mini Hasselback Potatoes
If you’re looking for a striking side dish or appetizer that will impress your guests, try these Garlic Parmesan Mini Hasselback Potatoes!
Though mini hasselback potatoes look fancy, the recipe is easy and straightforward.
Basically, you want to cut slits in the potatoes, but not all the way through, so the slices are attached. This can be a bit of a challenge and time consuming, but I have two tricks that help.
1 – Put a couple of chopsticks on each side of the potato, so the knife doesn’t go through all the way.
2- Use a wooden spoon as a cradle. This is my favorite method!
Place the cut potatoes on a baking sheet, brush them with a mixture of melted butter, olive oil and minced garlic, season with salt and black pepper, and bake them for 40 minutes, or until they’re crispy on the outside, and soft and creamy on the inside. Halfway through the roasting time, you will need to brush them again and sprinkle with parmesan.
Once the potatoes are cooked, finish them off with an extra sprinkle of parmesan and finely chopped parsley.
The combination of olive oil, butter, garlic and parmesan provide an amazing flavor.
This recipe can be easily made vegan. Substitute the butter with coconut oil or olive oil and omit the cheese or use vegan parmesan cheese.
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How To Make It: Garlic Parmesan Mini Hasselback Potatoes
Ingredients
- 20 baby potatoes washed and dried
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1½ tablespoon (20 g) butter melted
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ cup (20 g) grated parmesan cheese
- Garnish (optional): finely chopped parsley
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (205°C).
- Using a wooden spoon as a cradle, place each potato in the spoon and make several vertical slits, being careful not to cut all the way through. You can also place chopsticks on either side of the potato to keep your knife from slicing through.
- Arrange the potatoes on a baking sheet.
- Combine the melted butter, oil, and garlic, then brush each potato with this mixture.
- Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and bake for 20 minutes.
- Take the potatoes out of the oven, brush them again, and sprinkle with most of the parmesan.
- Return to the oven for about another 20 minutes or until the potatoes are golden and the flesh is soft.
- Remove the garlic parmesan mini hasselback potatoes from the oven, sprinkle with the remaining parmesan and chopped parsley, and serve immediately.
- Enjoy!
Thank you for this recipe! I made these as a side dish on Easter because I did not feel like peeling potatoes to make mashed, my husband will usually look at a baked potato and scoff but this time he really liked them…enough to ask me to make them again it is so nice not to have to mash the potatoes or have rice and even the kids like them!!!
Glad your family loved these potatoes, Verity! Thank you for the feedback! :)
Do you use parmesan from the shaker can, or cheese from the refrigerated section, freshly grated? Thank you.
Hi Karin! I always use freshly grated cheese.
Hello can I use Lemon zest and juice freshly squeezed instead of chocolate ?
Hi Sheila! There is no chocolate in this recipe. :)