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Oven-Crisped Smashed Potatoes with Cilantro-Yogurt Hot Sauce
These potatoes are browned and crisp on the outside, and dense and creamy on the inside. To get that perfect contrast in texture, we first boil whole fingerlings or small Yukon Golds until tender, then flatten them until they split open, brush them with oil and roast them in a hot oven. It’s a multistep process, but it requires only about 25 minutes of active time—and is well worth the effort. The spicy cilantro and yogurt accompaniment is a version of the Somali hot sauce called basbaas, and is made simply by pureeing the ingredients in a blender.
4 to 6
Servings
Tip
Don’t let the potatoes cool completely before smashing. They are easier to flatten and they hold their shape better when warm.
1¼ hours
25 minutes active
Ingredients
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2½
pounds fingerling potatoes or small (1- to 1½-inch) Yukon Gold potatoes, scrubbed
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Kosher salt and ground black pepper
Directions
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01Heat the oven to 500°F with a rack in the middle position. In a large pot over high, bring 2 quarts water to boil. Add the potatoes and ½ cup salt, then cook, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until a skewer inserted into the largest potato meets no resistance, 18 to 22 minutes.
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September 29, 2023
Crispy potatoes and delicious sauce!
I cut back a little on the lime juice and vinegar and added a pinch of sugar to the sauce and it was perfect.
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Beg pardon, but the only novel thing, which I see here is the yogurt sauce. I have been making potatoes like this for years, but without this particular sauce. I either use duck fat, or sour cream and chives. I am willing to give this a try, however. At the moment, I happen to be smack out of cilantro, but have everything else. Watch this space.