38 Delicious Potato Recipes That Are Comfort Food at Its Finest (2024)

Potato Tot Breakfast Casserole

Fluffy, crisp tater tots put a surprise spin on a standard breakfast casserole. Add eggs, cheese, breakfast sausage, bell pepper, onion, and a hit of hot sauce for peak comfort food perfection. It's perfect for a holiday brunch or a breakfast-for-dinner situation.

Creamy One-Pot Mashed Potatoes

For these one-pot mashed potatoes, use Yukon Golds to lower the starch content in the dish, which makes for a deliciously tender texture. Also, using a potato ricer transforms the baked potatoes into creamy, airy fluff rather than the gluey mashed potatoes you might have ended up with.

Herb-Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

Cooking skills need not apply for this simple take on roasted potatoes. Fresh herbs—rosemary and oregano—and zingy garlic get tossed with fingerling halves and then roast for up to 30 minutes. A great potato dish for any night of the week, this recipe also makes a vibrant (and healthy!) holiday side.

Mini Twice Baked Loaded Potatoes

Kids and adults will love these pint-sized baked potatoes. After all, they're loaded with butter, sour cream, cheddar cheese, chives, and (yup) bacon. Though they're best fresh out of the oven, we still love munching on them long after they've cooled. Serve them as a party-starting app or as a side dish for dinner.

Scalloped Potatoes

Perfection in a dish (or darn close to it) is thin-sliced potatoes tucked between heaps of warm cream and fresh herbs with an ooey-gooey inside and golden-browned crust. To kick it up a notch, top with a rich, salty cheese—like Gruyere or cheddar—before baking (like we did here).

Potato Parsnip Latkes

Whether you're short on potatoes, need a bit more fruit and veg in your diet, or like a little zing in your latke, this recipe's for you. In addition to a grated russet, it calls on grated parsnip, leeks, and matchstick carrots that give these latkes extra sweetness and a little fruity crunch for a different take on this Hanukkah staple.

Herb Potato Salad

It's a summer staple for a reason. Potato salad is one of the best barbecue/picnic side dishes, and forgetting to serve it—or worse, screwing up the recipe—is punishable by law (we wish). This mayo-free rendition features fresh herbs, scallions, and grainy mustard for a perfect creamy-tangy side of spuds.

Slow Cooker BBQ Sweet Potato Bakers

This game-day favorite is fit for those who like to set and forget. Give these hearty baked potatoes the slow-cooker treatment, and then load them with shredded chicken, barbecue sauce, cheddar cheese, and plenty of chopped chives and sour cream.

Pommes Anna

This elegant French dish is as classic as it gets, combining just potatoes, salt, pepper, and lots of butter. The result is a side that highlights the flavor of spuds, and goes well with roast chicken or grilled steak. Peeling, slicing, and layering the potatoes can take a while, but we promise it's well worth it.

Melting Potatoes

This potato treatment popularized by social media turns simple spud slices into creamy, caramelized coins that melt in your mouth. They're so easy and delicious, what took us so long to figure this out?

Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes

Be warned: You'll reach for seconds of these mashed potatoes. Butter transforms when it's melted in a saucepan to a golden brown color with a nutty aroma. When mixed with creamy ingredients like half-and-half and sour cream, potatoes turn earthy-flavored and velvety.

Horseradish Potato Gratin

This recipe lightens up a typical potato au gratin by replacing cheese with a dose of zingy horseradish. It takes just four ingredients and 10 minutes to assemble, and the oven does the rest. Pair it with our salmon fillet recipe, which also cooks in a 375°F oven.

Spanish Omelet With Potatoes and Chorizo

This breakfast recipe, derived from a Spanish omelet, features the obligatory eggs and potatoes but adds a few extra treats from Spain, namely chorizo sausage and Manchego cheese. The papas are diced red potatoes that get a head start in the skillet—along with the sausage and onions—before the eggs and cheese join in for a 15-minute bake.

5-Ingredient Roasted Potato Wedges

This potato recipe needs to be kept in a handy place because you'll want to go to it again and again. It's easy and economical to prep, involves no butter or frying, and goes with just about everything from burgers to steak to eggs.

Spoiler Alert: The five ingredients are olive oil, Parmesan, chopped rosemary, garlic powder, and russet potatoes (plus salt and pepper).

Potato-Crusted Arctic Char

If you haven't thought about using frozen hash browns as a crispy coating for pan-fried fish, it's time to consider it, and this recipe shows you how. It calls for Arctic char, but just about any variety of fish can benefit from this decadent, potato-crusted treatment.

Crispy Potato Omelet With Smoky Aioli

This dish is inspired by papas bravas, the signature potato dish of Spain and one commonly found on the menu of almost every Spanish tapas bar. The recipe puts those flavors inside a fluffy omelet with Manchego cheese, prosciutto, and chives, all topped with a tomato-y aioli.

Scallion and Potato Soup

How about a nice warm bowl of soup for dinner tonight? This meat-free, one-pot, potato recipe has a creamy white wine broth and takes just 30 minutes. For a thicker, creamier broth, whirl one-third to one-half of the almost-cooked soup in the blender, add it back to the pot, and finish cooking.

Potato, Egg, and Avocado Hash

Potatoes are a foundational ingredient in just about any hash, and this recipe is no exception. Here, new-potato cubes are parboiled before hitting the skillet to join red peppers, scallions, and eventually, eggs. Avocados, lime juice, and cilantro finish the dish, ready to serve on breakfast-for-dinner night.

Baby Hasselback Potatoes

If you don't mind serving a side that steals attention from your main dish, this recipe's a go! It's essentially a miniaturized, fancy baked potato that cooks in about half the time of the usual russet or Yukon Gold variety. This one calls on fingerlings, baby Yukons, or red potatoes, and you can top them the same as you do the big guys.

Layered Potatoes With Garlic Herb Butter

This easy potato recipe uses white and sweet potatoes for a layered dish that brings out the best of both. It requires a lot of time—nearly 2 hours—and assembly is required, but the result is a crispy-on-the-outside, creamy-on-the-inside side dish that potato lovers will swoon over.

Creamy Potato-Cabbage Soup

Everyone will look forward to Meatless Monday when this hearty soup is on the menu. Tender chunks of Yukon Gold and carrots mingle with cabbage and onion slices in a creamy broth with a punch of vinegar. Add a loaf and a salad to complete the meal.

Steak and Potato Skewers With Orange Salsa

The trick to grilling steak and potatoes on the same stick is to parcook (that is, partially cook to finish cooking later) the potatoes. This recipe uses the microwave for that—but they could be boiled instead—until baby potatoes are tender. Then they're skewered with alternating chunks of hanger steak and grilled to yummy perfection.

Baked Potato Eggs

Sausage and eggs are for breakfast, and baked potatoes are for dinner, so when should you serve this dish? Whenever you want! Add an easy vegetable side to this easy prep dish to make it a full meal.

Sheet Pan Fish and Chips

Use this recipe to serve this British favorite to family and friends without pulling out the deep fryer. Seasoned russet wedges roast on the same pan as panko-coated cod fillets, making cleanup as easy as prep. Serve these "chips" with malt vinegar and peas for the full pub experience.

Roasted Potato and Egg Sheet Pan

You don't have to sit over a hot stove to put this brunch dish on the dinner table. The potato recipe has the oven do the work on a single baking sheet. Yukon Golds join Brussels sprouts, kale, shallots, and eggs, which cook right on the pan, too.

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes

"Nothing's better than a plain baked potato," said no one, ever. Here, kick up the flavor and protein content with black beans, avocado slices, raw pepitas (AKA pumpkin seeds), and grated pepper Jack cheese. Broiling your potato skins before packing them with the sweet potato mixture helps crisp them up to serve as a super sturdy base.

Sheet Pan Smashed Potatoes and Broccoli With Fried Eggs

Here's a meat-free dinner that centers on potatoes and doesn't skimp on protein. The recipe makes use of the microwave and broiler to cook baby Yukon Golds within its 35-minute total time, making it a perfect weeknight treat.

Salt and Vinegar Roasted Potatoes

This potato recipe puts the addictive salt and vinegar potato chip flavor into a potato chunk, resulting in a crave-able dinner side dish. It coats halved fingerlings in olive oil and apple vinegar and then roasts them until tender. Before serving, finish with another dose of vinegar along with herbs—parsley, oregano, and dill—and flaky salt.

Sausage With Smashed Potatoes and Cornichons

This innovative take on meat and potatoes is reminiscent of a warm German-style potato salad. It dresses boiled, gently mashed, small red potato halves with a mustardy cornichon (pickle) juice-and-olive oil mixture, and then tops it with warm chunks of Italian sausage.

Lasagna With Potatoes

Potatoes often stand in for pasta on a dinner plate, but this recipe swaps them for lasagna noodles! It layers thin slices of Idaho potatoes between more layers of canned tomatoes, a milky egg custard, and a bacon-spinach mixture. Topped with cheese, the assemblage bakes to a golden brown, ready for service as a main dish or a hearty side.

Perfect Latkes

What makes a latke perfect? Crispy on the outside yet tender and chewy on the inside, according to this popular potato recipe. Staying true to tradition, it uses grated russets to create a latke that walks the line between a hash brown and a potato pancake.

Roasted Garlic Potatoes

The simple addition of minced garlic and fresh parsley takes a side of roasted potatoes from common to uncommonly delicious. Add this easy dish to amp up any meal—and make kids forget all about French fries.

Greek-Style Shrimp and Potatoes

Go Greek with this one-pot dinner idea that's equal parts quick and easy. Baby Yukon Gold halves cook with fresh green beans in a tomato broth for 25 minutes before raw shrimp join the party. Finish with crumbled feta and fresh dill to achieve that Greek mystique, and serve with pita to soak up that broth.

Sheet Pan Salmon With Potatoes and Broccolini

How to manage a variety of cook times on a single sheet pan? Easy! Start with roasting halved Yukon golds for 15 minutes, add salmon to the sheet and roast 5 more minutes, add broccolini and broil for 2 to 3 minutes, and then drizzle everything with a lemon-mustard vinaigrette and serve. That's how!

Roasted Artichokes and Potatoes

Granted, artichokes aren't the first thing you'd think of to pair with potatoes, but hear us out! Roasting concentrates the lemony flavors of artichoke hearts—yes, the ones marinading in a jar—and that flavor carries over to baby new potatoes roasting with them on the pan. Add a dash of smoked paprika for perfect balance.

Potato Leek Tart With Feta and Zucchini

Anyone who thinks a vegetarian main doesn't fill you up has never tried this one. It starts with a store-bought pie crust that's loaded with vegetables and cheese for a satisfying, meat-free main with a stunning presentation.

Grilled Steaks With Potato Skewers

Fire up the grill for this steak-and-potato treatment, which serves up baby new potatoes between shallot wedges on a stick. They're parcooked in the microwave, skewered, and then lightly oiled and seasoned. If you're short on grill space, no problem: The skewers grill while the sirloin is resting.

Smoky Sheet Pan Salmon and Potatoes

This not-just-another-sheet-pan recipe has a few tricks up its sleeve: namely orange zest and orange segments. The zest brightens an oil mixture that coats baby Yukon Gold halves and salmon filets as they roast. Orange segments contribute to an avocado-cilantro-limesalsa that elevates this dinner to special-occasion status.