Red potatoes are seasoned with rosemary and grilled to crispy perfection. Smashed Potatoes are an easy side dish recipe that cooks on the grill.
Tender on the inside and crispy on the outside, Grilled Smashed Potatoes are the perfect side dish for dinner tonight.
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Smashed Potatoes
Ok, here I go again. I'm hopping on another trendy bandwagon on Pinterest!
The latest "in" thing for potatoes is to cook and smash them!
How much fun is that?
I've taken this recipe one step further and I'm grilling the smashed potatoes for my summertime cookouts!
Dad will love this with his grilled steak this year for Father's Day!
Grilled steak and grilled potatoes, very manly indeed!
Just add a salad and vegetable and you're all set to celebrate Dad's special day with a fabulously delicious manly meal!
Grilled potatoes will be a welcome side dish recipe all summer long too!
And you can even make the potatoes ahead on the stovetop, smash them and refrigerate the potatoes until you are ready to fire up the grill. Scroll down for make ahead directions.
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How to make smashed potatoes
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below.
- Place potatoes in pot of cold water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Drain; run under cold water until potatoes are cool.
- Arrange the potatoes on a flat surface. Using a potato masher, smash potatoes, being careful that potatoes stay intact! Potatoes can be made one day ahead up to this point*.
- Preheat the grill for direct heat grilling.
- Brush both sides of the smashed potatoes with olive oil and sprinkle with kosher salt, rosemary, garlic powder and pepper. If potatoes begin to fall apart arrange potatoes on foil and place foil with potatoes directly on the grill to cook.
- Grill until heated through with crispy edges, turning once.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- You can cook and smash the potatoes ahead and refrigerate until you are ready to season and grill the potatoes.
Substitutions
- Substitute fingerling potatoes for the red potatoes and make smashed fingerling potatoes.
- Dried Italian seasoning, dried basil or dried oregano can replace the rosemary.
- For a Greek flavor, use Greek seasoning in place of rosemary.
Storage
- Store leftover smashed red skin potatoes in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
- Leftover potatoes will stay fresh for 2-3 days.
- You can reheat potatoes in the air fryer or microwave.
- As always, I find it helpful to visit the FDA website for food storage guidelines
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Equipment
Ingredients
Ingredients for grilled potatoes:
- red potatoes
- olive oil
- kosher salt
- fresh rosemary
- garlic powder
- pepper
Make Ahead Directions:
- You can boil the potatoes ahead.
- Drain and smash the potatoes.
- Cover the smashed potatoes with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
- Before preheating the grill remove the potatoes from the refrigerator and let them come to room temperature.
- Continue with Step 3 in the recipe card.
Grilled Smashed Potatoes with Rosemary Recipe
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Ingredients
- 12 medium red potatoes about 1 1/2 pounds
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
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Instructions
- Place potatoes in pot of cold water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Drain; run under cold water until potatoes are cool.
- Arrange the potatoes on flat surface. Using a potato masher, smash potatoes, being careful that potatoes stay intact! Potatoes can be made one day ahead up to this point*.
- Preheat grill for direct heat grilling.
- Brush both sides of potatoes with olive oil and sprinkle with kosher salt, rosemary, garlic powder and pepper. If potatoes begin to fall apart arrange potatoes on foil and place foil with potatoes directly on gri thell to cook.
- Grill until heated through with crispy edges, turning once.
Notes
- You can boil the potatoes ahead.
- Drain and smash the potatoes.
- Cover the smashed potatoes with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
- Before preheating grill remove potatoes from refrigerator and let come to room temperature.
- Continue with Step 3 in the recipe.
Nutrition
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