How to Make Delicious Hasselback Potatoes for Thanksgiving Dinner
Yahoo Food is proud to present “The Tipline,” a video series giving you tips, tricks, and hacks to get you through the holiday season and weeknight dinners alike. Today’s tip: how to make hasselback potatoes.
Baked potatoes are great, but hasselback potatoes are a way to present spuds with swagger. They’re essentially potatoes with accordion-style slits on the top that fan open when baked, and allow room for butter, spices and other toppings in between each slice.
They’re a quick side dish for dinner, but their elegant presentation makes an eye-catching addition to holiday meals, too.
Today’s “Tipline” video demonstrates a quick and easy recipe for hasselback potatoes flavored with garlic and thyme.
The key to a great hasselback potato is your knife skills. First, slice a small sliver off the bottom of the potato to give your spuds a level base. Then slice the potatoes across the top, but not all of the way through to the base. You want the potato to stay whole, but spread towards the top. Leave a ¼-inch gap between slices.
Brush with olive oil, tuck some garlic and thyme in between the folds for flavor, and bake until tender. You’ll end up with the most stylish baked potatoes on the block.
The detailed recipe for these savory hasselback potatoes is below:
Hasselback Potatoes
4 large Russet potatoes
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
4 sprigs thyme, leaves removed from stem
3 tablespoons parmesan, grated.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Scrub the potatoes clean and pat them dry. Slice 1/8 off of the bottom of the potato. Cut slits, ¼ inch apart in the potatoes, stopping two-thirds of the way down. This will leave the bottom intact.
Arrange the potatoes in a baking dish. Brush the potatoes all over with olive oil, including the bottoms. Sprinkle the potatoes generously with salt and pepper. Add garlic slices randomly in the slits of the potato. Sprinkle with thyme. Bake the potatoes for 30 minutes. If slits are sticking, gently pull them apart.
Bake until the potatoes are crispy on the edges and easily pieced in the middles with a paring knife. Remove from oven, drizzle with butter and sprinkle with parmesan. Serve.
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