These comforting potato sides recipes include creamy mashed potatoes, crispy Hasselback potatoes, hand cut potato fries, spicy potato wedges, crunchy shoestring fries, and more. These addictively delicious potato sides are perfect accompaniments to meaty dishes, roasts, fried chicken, and home-cooked fast food dishes from burgers to fish and chips.
The 30th May is International Day of the Potato so we’re sharing some of our best potato sides recipes because there must be few things as comforting as potato dishes, whether it’s creamy mashed potatoes or a rustic potato gratin. We’ll be adding more potato side recipes here soon so do bookmark this page.
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Potato Sides Recipes from Creamy Mashed Potatoes to Hand Cut Fries
Our best potato sides recipes include recipes for everything from Hasselback potatoes to hand cut potato chips
Classic Hasselback Potatoes Recipe
Kicking off this collection of our best potato sides recipes is my recipe for classic Hasselback potatoes with spiced butter and fresh herbs. Our recipes calls for baby potatoes, also known as new potatoes, which cook faster.
Brushed with the spiced butter at fifteen minute intervals, these mini Hasselback potatoes are crunchy on the outside and soft within, making a potato side dish that’s both elegant and comforting.
Of course Hasselback potatoes are still roast potatoes, they’re just finely sliced with close parallel cuts, about three-quarters through the potato so that it still holds together, and are brushed with butter (in this case a spiced butter) to add flavour and create the crispy texture and fan-like shape. They’re addictively delicious!
Classic Hasselback Potatoes Recipe with Baby Potatoes, Spiced Butter and Herbs
Creamy Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Terence’s creamy mashed potatoes recipe makes our favourite comfort food side. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a great steak, cote de boeuf, a classic roast chicken, some rustic sausages, a crispy skinned fish fillet, or five-spice crispy pork belly.
A simple dish, our mashed potatoes recipe relies on a very simple formula: one kilo potatoes, 250 grams butter and 250 millilitres of full cream milk. A good few twists of a salt grinder and you have a classic creamy mash.
There are two big factors in achieving the perfect mashed potatoes. First, it’s essential to choose the right kind of potato. Secondly, achieving a creamy texture is dependent on how much moisture you can remove from the mash before adding the milk and butter.
While some chefs, particularly French-trained chefs, like to use a food mill, Terence prefers to use a potato ricer followed by a tamis, pushing the potatoes through with a bowl scraper. More tips to making perfect mashed potatoes in the post below.
Creamy Mashed Potatoes Recipe – How to Make Perfect Potato Mash Every Time
Batata Harra Recipe for Lebanese Spicy Potatoes with Garlic Sauce and Coriander
Our batata harra recipe makes Lebanese spicy potatoes with garlic sauce and fresh coriander. These super crunchy twice-cooked potatoes are boiled, left to cool, pan-fried, then tossed in Aleppo pepper, coriander and toum, a garlic sauce. This recipe by chef Joseph Abboud of Rumi restaurant in Melbourne is quick and easy and the potatoes are addictively delicious. Make double!
Rumi owner-chef Joseph Abboud’s batata harra recipe makes one of our favourite Middle Eastern dishes, super-crunchy spicy Lebanese potatoes that are spicy thanks to Aleppo pepper, garlicky courtesy of toum, and fresh and fragrant thanks to coriander (cilantro). I’ve made two tweaks, using paprika, as I can’t source Aleppo pepper, sadly, and doubling the spice!
I adore batata harra with garlicky shish tawook – because you can never have enough garlic – or any chicken dish for that matter. Batata harra is brilliant with roast chicken and an Arabic farmers salad for a simple and comforting home-style meal. It’s also fantastic with kofta kebabs, fattoush or tabbouleh. I’ve been putting batata harra on our chicken shawarma instead of regular potato fries!
Batata Harra Recipe for Lebanese Spicy Potatoes with Garlic Sauce and Coriander
Shoestring Fries Recipe
Terence’s shoestring fries recipe makes crunchy matchstick fries that are just as fantastic with home-cooked fast food as they are with more classical dishes such as beef Stroganoff (or any Stroganoff actually).
They are the perfect side dish for everything from fried chicken or beer-battered fried fish (they’re fantastic dipped into our easy homemade tartare sauce), meat pies and sausage rolls, and homemade burgers.
While you could serve these skinny fries simply with a quality salt or chilli salt, seeing you’ve gone to the trouble of making them, why not make some homemade Sriracha sauce or sweet chilli sauce to go with them?
They also make fantastic loaded fries – spread them out on an oven tray and sprinkle them with finely diced jalapeños or gherkins and grated cheddar cheese, slide them under your oven-grill or broiler, and when the cheese has melted, douse them in chilli sauce and dollops of sour cream.
Best Shoestring Fries Recipe for Perfect Side for Burgers and Beef Stroganoff
Hand Cut Potato Chips Recipe
This hand cut potato chips recipe makes perfect crispy fries for your beer battered fish and chips, moules frites, roast chicken, or whatever else you like to serve with homemade potato fries.
Our mouthwatering potato chips are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. There are a couple of ways to achieve this, but ultimately you need to fry the chips twice. Fortunately, our method doesn’t mean hours in the kitchen.
You’ll need what’s commonly known as a candy thermometer. This is a thermometer that attaches to the side of the pan and actually sits in the pan. Buy one that at least goes to 200°C. They usually have a ‘deep-frying’ indicator at around the 190°C mark.
Deep fryers are great as well and more convenient if you do a lot of deep frying. The more expensive professional deep fryers do not suffer the problems that domestic models do. Don’t forget to make the best condiment to go with your chips, our easy homemade tartare sauce recipe.
Hand Cut Potato Chips Recipe for Crispy Fries for Your Fish and Chips
Spicy Potato Wedges Recipe
Our spicy potato wedges recipe takes the classic Australian café, pub and bar snack of potato wedges with sweet chilli sauce and sour cream and gives it a spicy Asian twist. These skin-on potato wedges can be fried or baked, but we’ve gone for the healthier oven-baked route.
Don’t be concerned as this spicy potato wedges recipe will still make you potato wedges that are crispy on the outside and fluffy within. Served with the classic Aussie combo of sweet chilli sauce and sour cream, these spicy wedges make a filling snack or a fantastic side for burgers.
Terence has given his spicy potato wedges an Asian twist – he uses five spice powder. We love Himalayan Pink Salt with these and use an adjustable salt grinder so that the final little grind before serving is lighter than what we use before baking. It’s easily another of our best potato sides recipes.
Spicy Potato Wedges Recipe With Sweet Chilli Sauce and Sour Cream
Russian Fried Potatoes with Mushrooms and Bacon Just Like Baba Made
You might have the impression from my stories that my grandmother always cooked lavish family feasts for Orthodox Easter and Christmas and the languorous Sunday lunches that evolved into dinner. But during my first year at uni, before I began working full-time and switched to evening classes, I’d visit my grandparents and stay the night, and baba would make simple rustic dishes like this, with a garden salad.
If you’re in need of hugs and hearty comfort food, try this Russian fried potatoes with mushrooms and bacon recipe for zharenaya kartoshka s gribami. One of our best potato recipes and potato side recipes, it makes my version of one of our family recipes for a traditional comfort food dish baboushka made for a casual meal when I stayed with my Russian-Ukrainian grandparents and it was just the three of us eating together.
Serve this fried potato dish as part of a shared family meal or as a vegetable side — or tuck into a bowl on the couch on a cold evening. However you serve the dish, shower it with fresh parsley or dill, dollop on some sour cream and/or grainy mustard, and eat it with zingy pickles.
Russian Fried Potatoes with Mushrooms and Bacon Just Like Baba Made
Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of our best potato sides recipes as we’d love to know how they turned out for you.
