Traditionally, potato recipes are the ultimate side dish, with mashed potatoes or roast potatoes being the go-to for cooking up the humble veg. However, potatoes shine just as bright on their own, especially in hearty meals like potato casseroles, or creamy potato bakes.
Below you’ll find some of our favourite potato recipes that you can make ahead of time, serve at a dinner party or snack on while relaxing on the weekend.
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Potato recipe tips
Potato varieties
There are many different varieties of potato. Here are some of the more popular ones we use in these potato recipes:
- Kipfler (fingerling): small, finger-shaped, with a nutty flavour. Use kipfler potatoes for baking or in potato salads.
- Pontiac: large, red skin, deep eyes, white flesh. Pontiac potatoes are good grated, boiled and baked.
- Sebago: white skin, oval. Sebago potatoes are good fried, mashed and baked.
Top tips for making potato salad
- Toss the potatoes in the dressing while they are still warm.
- Add a little of the pickling liquid from a jar of gherkins or other pickle to the potato salad dressing.
Speedy roast spuds
Roasting your vegetables will pack in more flavour. However, microwaving them first can be used to fast track the cooking time for many potato recipes. Use the microwave to start the cooking process then finish in a hot oven for golden crispiness.
Crispy spiral potatoes with rosemary garlic butter
An elegant twist on tornado potatoes.
Chicken & potato salad with zesty yogurt dressing
A fresh and flavourful dish that’s perfect for any occasion.
Crispy potato salad with aioli
This is the ultimate potato salad – it’s a riff on crunchy roast potatoes, with salty pancetta and garlicky mayonnaise added.
Air fryer potato wedges
A spud-tacular snack or side served with sticky soy mayonnaise.
Baked potatoes
Baked potato, jacket potato, or baked spud. Call them what you like, they’re an easy weeknight meal.
Decadent potato puree
The perfect side dish for all your favourite meats and stews.
Chicken, potato and leek pot pies
That’s comfort in food form.
Potato and salmon salad with mustardy dressing
A hearty and satisfying salad.
Potatoes with lemon and tomato
Looking for a flavourful side dish? Look no further.
Turmeric dosa with green chilli potatoes
You’ll love this hearty vegetarian dish, and so will your gut.
Potato wedges and chicken poutine
If you’ve never tried poutine before then now is your time.
Air fryer potato gratin
Air fryers; making life easier since 2010.
Garlic butter fish and crispy potatoes
It’s fast, fabulous and great for whipping up on a busy weeknight.
Twice-cooked crispy kipfler potatoes with gribiche sauce
A moreish potato side that will get the party started.
Potato and pea soup with pesto, ricotta cream and crispy croutons
Turn frozen peas into a tasty weeknight dinner.
Gluten-free potato and rosemary focaccia
A simple gluten-free focaccia recipe with a twist!
Crispy roasted potatoes with parmesan
Crunchy on the outside, super soft and fluffy on the inside, take your next roast or barbecue to a new level.
Fish pie with potato and celeriac mash
A delicious winter warmer.
Tuscan roast potatoes
These crispy roast potatoes make for a delicious side.
Jerk salmon with yoghurt potatoes
Master the art of quick and tasty weeknight dinners with this easy salmon recipe.
Zesty yoghurt potato salad with salmon
Serve this potato salad as part of a lunch spread. Or bulk it up with salad greens and make it a meal.
Spicy potato salad
A spicy summer salad inspired by the flavours of a classic Caesar.
Duck fat potatoes
Add these crispy potatoes to your Christmas Day lunch menu.
Chorizo & potato frittata
Eating in the great outdoors doesn’t get easier or more delicious than this frittata – all done in one pan over the glowing coals of a campfire.
Campfire whole snapper and potato wedges
Not your average fish and chips, this whole snapper recipe with potato wedges, is cooked on a campfire for that fresh-caught flavour.
Tuna potato bake
Bake it till you make it.
Crispy roast potatoes
It’s crunch time.
Potato rendang with fried egg
Dinner for one, sorted.
Slow-cooked lamb pie with potato rosti
Shepherd’s pie, but make it fancy!
Easy, cheesy potato bake
This versatile, creamy potato bake is always a winner – serve it as a side dish or by itself!
Air fryer baked potatoes
Serve with lashings of butter or a tasty topper.
Air fryer potatoes with salt & vinegar
A smashing side or snack.
French onion potato bake
Cook this potato bake in an Instant Pot. We’ve included the oven instructions too.
Double cheese potato bake
Better make extra because this one will be popular!
Julie Goodwin’s easy potato salad
A 5-ingredient warm potato salad.
Cheese & Vegemite roast potatoes
Roast potatoes as you’ve never had them before!
Chicken nibbles with chilli crunch potatoes
Serve a spicy or mild version.
Chicken & potato tray bake
It’s big on flavour and light on washing up.
Potato and bacon soup
Warm, hearty and creamy, this potato and bacon soup is packed full of delicious ingredients to create the ultimate comfort food.
Spinach, haloumi and potato salad
A delicious twist on a potato salad.
Greek roast lamb with skordalia and lemony potatoes
This Greek roast lamb recipe is cooked low and slow until the meat is tender. It’s not just the meat that’s spectacular, the sides are too!
Grated potato fritters
Similar to a potato rosti or latke, this recipe can also be made bite sized and used as a base for canapes.
Perfect roasted potatoes
Crunchy on the outside, fluffy on the inside.
Classic mashed potato
Plus our Test Kitchen tip for really smooth mashed potatoes – no special equipment required!
The best roast potatoes
With a secret ingredient for the crispiest and fluffiest spuds. We’ve included instructions for cooking in the oven and the air fryer too.
Steak pie with caramelised onion & potato
Serve up a fancy twist on the classic.
French potato salad
A fresh take on this side dish favourite.
Quick & easy potato soup with cheddar toasts
A cosy meal for two, ready in just 30 minutes.
Julie Goodwin’s chicken & leek pie with potato bake topping
A chicken and leek pie – potato bake mash up!
Roast baby potatoes with chilli
These spuds have a cheesy, chilli kick to delight your tastebuds.
Hasselback potatoes with chive & thyme butter
This recipe takes hasselback potatoes to new heights!
Christmas potato salad
Crispy Christmas ham and fluffy potatoes? We’re in!
Crisp potato and peanut cakes
A grain often used for puddings and desserts, and as a thickening agent in cooking, tapioca is sourced from the root of the cassava plant (unlike sago, with which it is often confused, which comes from a variety of palm). Note
Chicken with garlic potatoes and rosemary
No need to spend hours cleaning up with this delicious one-pot meal. Juicy chicken is roasted to perfection with salty olives, garlic potatoes and a seasoning of rosemary.
Oregano potatoes
There’s no need to ever serve a boring side, these oregano potatoes will spice up any spread.
Garlic potato soufflés
Soft, light and garlicky with a crisp, golden crust, these little garlic potato soufflés make an excellent starter.
Potato skins with tomato salsa
If you want to make a share-plate, party platter or after-school snack with a bit of substance, these potato skins with tomato salsa are the bomb. They’ll be snapped up, and if you plan ahead you can use the potato flesh for myriad other recipes.
Crispy beef and potato patties
Instead of pure vegetable oil to deep-fry, you can blend it (50/50) with sesame oil. Note
Potato and herb pizzas
Look away, paleo devotees! Our ancestors would never have indulged in this decadent carb-on-carb fest, but we’re sure glad we can. This potato and rosemary pizza served with a herb dressing is so wonderful you won’t want to share.
Potato cakes
The combination of mashed potato, bacon, onion, cheese and sour cream in these cakes is so good you’ll find it hard to stop at one. You can also use lasoda or pink-eye potatoes for this recipe. Note
Puttanesca potato bake
Pimp your potato bake with traditional Puttanesca flavours of olives and pancetta.
Potato chocolate cake
Sometimes the strangest ingredients make the best cakes! The addition of mashed potato makes a cake that is deliciously moist.
Mediterranean potato pancakes
Our version of traditional Italian cannelloni takes homemade potato pancakes and fills them with a hearty, delicious vegetarian filling. Topped with bubbly, golden cheese, this is one dish you’ll love.
Potato scones
You need to cook 2 medium potatoes (380g) for this recipe. The scones are best made and eaten on the same day. They can be frozen for up to 3 months.Thaw in oven, wrapped in foil. Note
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