Lately there’s been a lot of these hasselback potatoes around the food blog world. As a meat and potatoes person, I knew I had to try these. The recipe is so simple and yet quite different than your regular baked potato. These weren’t quite crispy like potato chips as I was hoping but they were tender and rich.
And, if you’re like me, you’ll be a little disappointed to learn that this isn’t named after a certain View hostess. Next you’ll try to tell me that Whoopi Goldberg didn’t invent the whoopie pie…
Hasselback Potatoes
Ingredients:
- 1 medium baking potato
- 2 pats of butter
- Salt and pepper for seasoning
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Carefully slice the potato ever 1/4-1/2 inch about 90% of the way through, making sure not to cut it completely.
Put a pat of butter over each side of the potato. Bake it for 60 minutes.
Plate and pour the excess melted butter overtop. Season with salt and pepper.
Paula Deen would do good by this recipe, ya’ll. It was definitely a fun and different way to eat a baked potato. Bacon bits on top would have been a great final touch.
Whoopie Goldberg pie…yes. I haven’t heard of these– but they look delicious! Great presentation presence!
I haven’t seen these yet but they definitely look like a fun and interesting way to eat a baked potato!
These look delicious Evan! Even something as simple as slicing the potato makes it seem so much fancier. Yum!
as if Elizabeth would eat a potato… 😉
I love hasselbacks… the crispy and … mashy together is perfect. I like roasted garlic on mine…
I would definitely try this sometime. And maybe some garlic and greek yogurt wouldn’t be out of place? Beautiful photo!
mmm this looks so great!
I love how gorgeous the presentation is without really any hard work at all!
For some reason that seems 10 times more fun to eat than a regular baked potato 🙂
Never heard of these before but they sound great (with coconut oil for me!)–bet the technique would work great with yams too…may have to try that!
thanks for sharing.
I had not seen hasselback taters in like…decades. And all of a sudden the past couple weeks, they’re everywhere on blogs. Note to self: make some 🙂
I mirrored your thought about the recipe name and The View host, but your follow up remark kept the laugh rolling. Potato and butter, what could be better? Except maybe to have it served by Paula Deen.
This is one of my favorite ways to make a potato! I love wrapping them up in foil and putting them on the grill in the summer with onions in all of the slits.
Oh, it’s been so long since I had hasselbacks! Thanks for the reminder 🙂
Perfecto! I am speechless. This looks that good. 😀
xoxo
Kathleen
They look amazing and simple!!! Def going to try this. I have a question, do you wrap them in foil before putting them in the oven??
Nope! I just let them bake laid open on the sheet.
I made hasselback sweet potatoes a little while ago and I loved the play between the tender interior and crispy exterior! I need to try it with russets.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this wonderful way of preparing potatoes!
I had totally forgotten about it, actually I found it so inspiring that it turned out to be my dinner yesterday and blog post today. (Well sorta) I need to not forget this again!
I have a recipe for these on my blog too.
I didnt know they had a name so I called them “Slice Baked Potatoes”
Im so original 😉
YUM! That’s all…just yum and oh, uh, drool! 😉