Smashed Potatoes
Ingredients
- 4-6 Potatoes, any variety (I use red skin)
- 2-4 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 tsp Butter
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp Dried parsley
- Salt, to taste
- Parmesan cheese, grated
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees
- Massage your potatoes in olive oil, and place them on a lined cookie sheet. Give your potatoes lots of room, you do not want to cram your potatoes.
- Bake for 45 minutes, or until tender.
- Pull them out of the oven, and let them rest for 5-10 minutes.
- This is the tricky part: smashing the potato. You want to gently cut a slit from top to bottom (do not pierce through to the bottom). Then turn the potato and make 3 small slits. That's 1 cut down and 3 cuts across.
- Now, take your fork and starting from the inside out, and smash the potato until you get a potato looking like a UFO.
- Add a tsp. of butter to the middle of each potato and sprinkle with desired seasonings.
- Place potatoes back in the oven on BROIL and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes, or until tops are golden brown.
- Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve!