The oven-baked new potatoes are a delicious and versatile side dish, perfect to accompany both meat dishes and fish dishes. Their crispy and golden exterior encloses a soft and delicate heart, offering an irresistible combination of textures. These small potatoes, with their thin skin and sweet taste, lend themselves to numerous recipes, from the most traditional to the most creative: today I will show you one of the most classic ways to cook new potatoes, which is baking them with garlic and rosemary. I’ll reveal the trick to achieving perfect cooking: boil them for about ten minutes with the skin on before baking. This step allows you to speed up the cooking of new potatoes, making them uniform and tender inside. After boiling them, simply season with extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, and flavor them with fresh rosemary and a garlic clove. To make them even more inviting, sprinkle some butter flakes on the surface: they will melt in the oven, providing an irresistible golden finish. The recipe for oven-baked new potatoes is very simple and also quite quick, and it will be useful on many occasions.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 6 People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 179.99 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 26.35 (g) of which sugars 0.36 (g)
- Proteins 3.38 (g)
- Fat 7.34 (g) of which saturated 1.68 (g)of which unsaturated 0.49 (g)
- Fibers 2.38 (g)
- Sodium 146.17 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 155 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for oven-baked new potatoes
- 2.2 lbs new potatoes
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 3 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
- 3 pinches salt
- to taste pepper
- 0.35 oz butter (optional)
Tools
- 1 Pot
- 1 Baking pan 11 inches diameter
- Parchment paper
How to prepare oven-baked new potatoes
New potatoes are usually cooked whole and with the skin on: as it is very thin, you can eat it easily and it is also very tasty. For this reason, before cooking them, it is important to wash them carefully under running water, scrubbing them well with your hands (1). Naturally, if you prefer, you can peel them.
Bring plenty of lightly salted water to a boil and plunge in the potatoes (2). Cook them for 8-10 minutes if you left the skin on, 5-6 minutes if you’ve peeled them. Drain and let them cool just enough to handle them. To season the new potatoes, you can use a bowl or do it directly in the baking pan you will cook them in: line it with parchment paper and transfer the potatoes to it. Season with 2-3 pinches of salt, 3 tablespoons of oil, and a good grind of pepper (3).
Mix them carefully using a spoon or your hands, to evenly distribute the seasoning. Peel the garlic and cut it in half. Insert it into the baking pan and also add the rosemary needles (4). Finally, to achieve a perfect golden finish, top the surface with a few butter flakes (5). Bake the new potatoes in a preheated oven at 390°F (convection) for about 30 minutes until golden (6).
Serve the oven-baked new potatoes immediately as a side dish for roasts, scallops, steaks, stew, baked fish, and many other dishes.
Storage
Oven-baked new potatoes should be served as soon as they are made, but if there are leftovers, you can store them in the refrigerator for a day and briefly reheat them in the oven before consuming.
Tips and Variations
For this recipe I used fresh new potatoes, but there are also pre-cooked ones available – either frozen or in the fridge section, steamed – which naturally do not need to be pre-boiled.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
What can I use instead of butter?
Butter is not essential, it only serves to promote browning, so if you don’t want or can’t use it, you can omit it.
