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Healthy Potato Side Dish Recipes. Spaghetti Squash with Maple Syrup and Shallots. In the next post, I’ll continue the turkey brining discussion, and move on into roasting the sucker.

Spaghetti Squash with Maple Syrup and Shallots

Meantime, here’s a yummy Thanksgiving side dish! Spaghetti squash is so weird. So wonderfully, deliciously weird. If you’ve never tried it before, you have to! The texture is out of this world. Grab one or two medium-sized spaghetti squash. This is an hour later. With a very sharp knife, carefully, gracefully, and gingerly whack them in half. With a spoon, scoop out the seeds and the slimy pulp surrounding the seeds. I don’t care if this is edible. Blech. Back to the squash, just grab a fork and begin picking. Scrape the entire squash into a bowl, then discard the shells. Now, grab a couple of shallots. Peel them… Lemon Green Beans. Roasted Parsley and Garlic Fingerling Potatoes Recipe. Jul 11 Welcome to Unsophisticook!

Roasted Parsley and Garlic Fingerling Potatoes Recipe

I'm always cooking up something new, so be sure to subscribe to the blog to receive FREE updates sent right to your inbox. I knew I wanted to roast the pretty little fingerling potatoes that we picked up at Trader Joe's last week, but it wasn't until I was digging through the produce drawer and spied the leftover Giant of Italy parsley from our CSA share that I started to formulate what flavors I wanted to combine with them. Toss in a little garlic, olive oil and fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste and pop them in the oven. End result? Roasted Parsley and Garlic Fingerling Potatoes Ingredients: 2 pounds fingerling potatoes 3 tablespoons olive oil 5 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons flat leaf parsley, chopped salt pepper Instructions: Mashed Potato Skins Recipe : Rachael Ray.

Cracked Pepper Potato Chips with Onion Dip Recipe : Ellie Krieger. Directions Make chips: Toss potatoes in a large bowl with 2 tablespoons of oil, and pepper until well coated.

Cracked Pepper Potato Chips with Onion Dip Recipe : Ellie Krieger

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Arrange potato slices in 1 layer on 2 cookie sheets. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until chips are crisped and lightly browned. Remove from oven, season with salt and cool. Make dip: Heat oil over medium heat and add onions and scallion whites. If using regular yogurt, place it in a strainer lined with a paper towel and set the strainer over a bowl. Combine onions with thickened or Greek-style yogurt, mayonnaise, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper and scallion greens and stir well to incorporate. Excellent source of: Vitamin C Good source of: Potassium. Microwave Potato Chips — Really! I like to think of myself as a glass-half-full kind of gal.

Microwave Potato Chips — Really!

I tend to have a sunny demeanor. I try to accentuate the positive even in the most grave of situations. And I’m optimistic that one can do anything one sets one’s mind to — or at the very least get darn close to it. But when I stumbled upon a recipe early last year in Eating Well magazine for making potato chips in the microwave, I balked. I was a disbeliever. I was wrong. As part of the Reheat Anything Generation, I knew full well from experience that foods heated or cooked in the microwave most often turned out soft and limp, not crunchy. So how could thinly sliced potatoes end up crackling crisp? They not only do, but they also possess a purity of flavor — of real, fresh potatoes.

Plus, there’s no heating up a vat of oil or turning on a hot oven to make these. The recipe calls for cutting up the potatoes into 1/8-inch slices. Rosemary Roasted New Potatoes Recipe at WomansDay.com - Holiday Vegetable Recipes. 50 Mashed Potatoes : Recipes and Cooking. Hasselback Potatoes. These Hasselback potatoes looks beautiful, don't' they?

Hasselback Potatoes

Here, I also added several cloves of garlic to these Swedish version of baked potatoes to enhance the flavor. It turned out great, they were very delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.. Updated: November 26th 2013 This is an updated post with a new video guide on How To Slice Hasselback Potatoes Hasselback Potatoes (Printable Recipe) Ingredients 6 Medium Size Potatoes 2 - 3 Cloves Garlic, thinly sliced 2 Tbsp Olive Oil 30 g Butter Maldon Sea Salt Freshly Ground Black Pepper Method Preheat the oven to 220˚C (425˚F).

Arrange the potatoes in a baking tray and insert the garlic in between the slits. Bake the potatoes for about 40 minutes or until the potatoes turn crispy and the flesh is soft. Garlicky Baked Fries. I’m never going to make garlic potato fries any other way.

Garlicky Baked Fries

These garlic fries, win hands down as the best garlic french fries I’ve ever made. Plus they are baked – so I won’t feel too guilty if I make it every time I’m craving for some potato comfort. When I read that there is garlic infused oil involved, my heart skipped a beat (in a good way, not the way oil would otherwise treat your heart).