Y’all know I love me some Pioneer Woman. Every single one of her cookbooks is one of my favorites! When I first read this recipe, I started to drool and I knew I just HAD to make it. And there is no maybe about it. These potatoes are delicious. This is the way potatoes were meant to be cooked! For the perfect crash hot potatoes, you just need four simple ingredients: baby (new) potatoes, good oil, salt, and whatever herbs/spices you’d like. Get creative pepper, garlic, cumin, parsley – you can’t go wrong!
Before I pass along the super easy recipe for her crash hot potatoes, I just want to share a few tips I found for making these crash hot potatoes perfect every time.
- First you want to boil your potatoes until they’re fork tender. We don’t want them so soft that they fall off the fork, but we do want them done.
- Kosher salt is best in these crash hot potatoes because it has larger grains, so it takes less for a big taste.
- Baking on parchment paper saves you LOTS of work scraping bits of crusty potato off it later!
- You only want to smash the hot potatoes a little, making sure they stay intact. You don’t want them to fall apart!
- Brush plenty of olive oil on top of each potato so you’re sure you get a nice crispy crust in the oven.
Don’t you want to go make these right now?! Do it, y’all! These crash hot potatoes are life-changing. That’s the Pioneer Woman for you… changing your life one potato at a time.
Crash Hot Potatoes
Ingredients
- 12 whole new potatoes or other small potatoes
- Olive oil
- Kosher salt
- Fresh pepper
- Other seasonings of choice
Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook them until they are fork-tender – that means you can pierce them with a fork.
- Grease a sheet pan or use a piece of parchment paper. Place potatoes on the cookie sheet.
- With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly mashes.
- Brush the tops of each mashed potato with olive oil.
- Sprinkle potatoes with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper and your seasonings of choice – seasoned salt is AWESOME!
- Bake in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until brown and crispy.
Notes
I now know what I’m going to do with all those tiny potatoes left over from our potato patch! Yum.
Tia has been singing the praises of this recipe so I’m off to give it a try! I can’t wait!
I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!!!
I don’t have a favorite Paula Dean recipe. I am like her in that I like anything with butter and/or sour cream.
Sweet Chicken Bacon Wraps, yummy!!
I love the gooey cakes–also know as chess cake.
Paula Deen’s Pimento Cheese recipe. I didn’t think I liked pimento cheese until I tried this recipe. It’s delicious and easy. I haven’t tried Paula’s Georgia cracker salad, but have been thinking about making it. Paula Deen has some awesome recipes! I love my Paula Deen cookbook.
Georgia cracker salad is my all time fav Paula dean dish!!!! If u all have never tried it look it up!!!! YUM!!!
I don’t have just one fav recipe of Paula Deen’s – they’re all my favs! Haven’t found one that I don’t like yet!
I love her Georgia Cracker Salad!
Stacy,
You know how madly in love with Paula Deen I am (couldn’t pass this one up)! My favorite recipe are her Cinnamon Rolls. But, I also use her blueberry muffin recipe a lot in the summer with the blueberries growing on our property. Butter and sugar baby!
I don’t have a favorite. I love chocolate, any chocolate. greg and I watch her show. I love to watch her eat food after she has cooked it. she oohs and ahhs over it. You can sometimes see her mouth watering!! I know I catch some drool on my chin when she makes chocolate deserts. My mouth is watering just writing bout it!
I just love Paula Deen, and I am so happy she has been so successful since she started the Bag Lady. I have been to the Lady & Sons, and just loved everything on her buffet. My favorite there was the greens, I did not have to use any vinegar to season them. My favorite recipe from her cook book is the Strawberry Cobbler, it is so easy to fix and a wonderful way to fix strawberries in the summer.
I love anything Paula Deen!! But her Gooey Butter Cake recipe is one that i use most often – so many different variations 😀
I dont know any paula dean recepies,but i would love to try some out! Im not too good of a cook but i would love a chance to win the cookbook and maybe learn some good recepies.
Love Paula Deen!! Soo funny.. just my style of cook too! I can’t believe you stole my favorite recipe… we made her corn cass for lots of offices! but I like nearly everything she does…just try not to do so much fried foods tho! Draw my name so I can win the book! Great job Stacy!
I can’t remember the name of the recipe but it’s a casserole that has shrimp and crab and lots of cheese and butter in it. Yum ya’ll. I guess maybe it was called Seafood Casserole or something. Okay never mind just looked it up it’s Shrimp and Crap Au Gratin.
Anything by Paula Deen rocks! How can I choose just one?
I don’t have a favorite recipe of Paula Deen… YET! I think my family will really like the crash hot potatoes though! Thanks for your contests. They are fun!
Love her baked spaghetti. Takes a while but so worth it! Oh and her gooey pumpkin butter cake is delicious for dessert (complete with 2 sticks of butter).
This time of year i would have to say her watermelon salad.Yummmy.
I love fried butter which means I love Paula Deen! She cooks the way I grew up with (until my dad had a heart attack anyway…) Her recipe that I love and make the most is Parmesan Stewed Tomatoes. I don’t remember if that’s actually what they’re called or not, but they are such a great side dish. Sometimes I make them just for me for lunch!
Thank you Stacey!
We have adopted the Deen Mission statement… loving family, kindness, laughter, great food prepared by all and more laughter equal a happy environment
Via Casa d. Stoddard – Our dad gfted Darin and I a gadget from Sur la Table. The handy dandy Potato Grill Rack. Spendy but stainless steel @ $10.00
http://www.surlatable.com/product/potato+grill+rack.do?keyword=bbq&sortby=ourPicks
Crash Potatos al Fresco 🙂 With roasted chilis and cheese 🙂
Keep up the great work Stacey !
I love just about anything Paul Deen makes-they are all delicious!
I love me some Paula Deen and her recipes are always a hit! It’s hard for me to pick just one recipe but I’ll have to go with her Banana’s Foster French Toast. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!
I love Paula Dean, and it shows! I keep butter by the 4 lb blocks at Sams. My favorite recipe is her fried chicken…..KFC has nothing on Mrs. Paula http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/southern-fried-chicken-recipe/index.html.
One of my new & favorite Paula Dean Recipes is ” Pink Lemonaid Cake”! Its an awesome summer dessert,cool & a beautiful 3 layer cake…your guests will go WILD!
My favorite would be the Lemon Meringue Pie. I haven’t made it yet, but I watched her make it on the today show and it was to die for, by looks alone! 🙂 I love Paula Deen!
Oooooohhh! I’d love a Paula Book (and those potatoes)!
I pretty much love everything Paula Deen makes! If I had to pick one, I’d probably pick Gooey Butter Cake. Yummm!
Me TOO!
Kim: A friend of Stacy
I had to look up the Gooey Butter Cake recipe since everyone loves it. It’s just like Chess Bars! And you’re right, they’re delicious!