This simple recipe for salt and vinegar roasted potatoes adds the zingy taste of malt vinegar to tender roasted baby potatoes for a delectable side dish!
Is there anything better than potatoes? I like them mashed, I liked them made into fries, I like them sliced on top of a cottage pie. I like them here, I like them there, I like them like them everywhere.
I especially like those adorable little baby ones…you know the ones I mean. The little tiny red and white ones, the ones that make it possible for you to eat multiple potatoes at the same meal and still feed kind of virtuous. Kind of. Hey, they are vegetables!
So besides mashing them up with lots of butter and cream, which is definitely one of the absolute best ways on earth to prepare a potato, there is another even speedier way to get to potato heaven. It’s completely easy, completely delicious, and only involves four things. Potatoes (natch). Olive oil. Coarse salt. And this…
Now, I admit that finding malt vinegar can be a bit of a challenge. I actually found mine in the international foods section of my supermarket, in there with the Cadbury chocolate and the really good English breakfast tea…but you can also find it here. And if THAT doesn’t work, you can use regular old cider vinegar. It will be almost as good.
Here’s how you make salt and vinegar roasted potatoes!
Take those cute little potatoes and boil them up in salted water until they are tender, about 20 minutes or so. Drain them, and now comes the fun part.
Put them in groups of three or four on a clean dishtowel and fold it over. Now take a potato masher or a can of tomatoes or whatever you have that is heavy and flat, and press down gently on each potato until they flatten up just slightly.
Now transfer them all to a cookie sheet, brush them with a little olive oil and bake ’em until they are just a little crispy on the outside.
When they are out of the oven, toss them with that vinegar and sprinkle on some coarse salt and if you want to be extra fancy, sprinkle them with chopped parsley…and then have an internal argument with yourself about whether these are maybe even better than those mashed potatoes that have always been in first place in your heart.
It’s a conundrum for sure.
Salt and Vinegar Roasted Potatoes
This simple recipe for salt and vinegar roasted potatoes adds the zingy taste of malt vinegar to tender roasted baby potatoes for a delectable side dish!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 6
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Stovetop and Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds baby potatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup malt vinegar
- Sea salt and fresh ground pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley (optional)
Instructions
- Fill a pot with water, add the potatoes, and bring them to a boil. Turn dow the heat and simmer the potatoes until they are just tender, about 20 minutes (you can test them by poking one with a knife – it should slide in easily).
- Preheat your oven to 450 and line a rimmed baking dish with non-stick foil or a silicone mat. Place the potatoes in a single layer and gently smoosh each potato with a potato masher or a large fork so that it flattens out – be careful to keep them in one piece though. Brush them with olive oil and sprinkle them with salt and pepper.
- Bake them up until they are a little browned and starting to get crispy, about 35 minutes.
- When they are done, drizzle them with the vinegar, put them in a serving dish or on individual plates, garnish with parsley and serve!
Updated from a previously published Framed Cooks post!
FramedCooks says
Tasha, you are so right – thank you and I have changed it. Although in real life, I pretty much estimate 4-5 little potatoes per each person eating and wing it from there, I don't actually weigh 'em. But I know folks that do, so thanks! :)
Tasha says
I have the Martha recipe this was adapted from and it lists 1 and a 1/2 pounds of potatoes (your recipe here just lists a 1/2 pound)–not sure if you meant it to be this way or not but I thought I would let you know just in case–I am trying them tonight, hope they taste as good as your pictures! :)
FramedCooks says
Yep, there's nothing like salt and vinegar…I think these might be my "side dish of the summer of 2011"…meaning I might have to make them another 50 times this summer. :)
Kelly says
yummm looks so good! can't wait to make them.
Kate says
OH MY GOSH! This recipe is just up my alley. I love the salt and vinegar flavor. Perfect side dish for tonights dinner. Thanks!
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Shari says
Having these with fish this weekend-yum!
Dawn says
I made these last night and we loved them! I went a little light on the malt vinegar because I didn't know if I'd like it that much, but next time, I'll use more :) Awesome recipe!
Catherine says
Wow! I am in London. Salt and vinegar potato crisps (chips in the US) are everywhere here. And in a fish and chip shop malt vinegar and salt are usually added to the take-out chips (fries in US). Never thought to do them this way but it makes so much sense. Actually, I just wanted to brag about the wonderfully flavoured crips we have here – cheese and onion, worcester sauce, steak, bacon, the list goes on. So good with a beer in the pub. And for a nice summer drink try beer mixed with lime cordial, or clear lemonade, which is like 7 up. The last drink is called a Shandy. The former lager and lime. For non alcohol drinkers, try ginger beer/ale with a fresh lime wedge squeezed over and dropped in.
Vicki says
These sound absolutely scrumptious!
Mama.Mommy.Mom. says
Oh, my! These look so good! I love salt and vinegar. Mmmmm…!
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Kate says
Potatoes are my weakness. These sound wonderful!
Jes says
I've had this recipe bookmarked for weeks and finally found the malt vinegar today. I cannot wait to make these!
jillian :: cornflake dreams. says
wowzah those look fantastic! and full o flavor. xoxo jillian:: enter in TWO GIVEAWAYS over at cornflake dreams
Joanne says
Given that salt and vinegar potatoes are possibly one of my most favorite things EVER…I have to declare these addictive! Utterly addictive. Def can't just have one.
PoetessWug says
Is there anything better than potatoes?…Answer = NO!!! ^_^ And I love vinegar and salt potatoes too! But the malt vinegar is new to me! MUST TRY!!! :-] And a big old Spud 'thank you' too!