Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes Recipe – Best Ever!
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These oven roasted potatoes are amazing! Perfectly golden brown and crispy on the outside, tender on the inside – this is the best roasted potatoes recipe ever!
There are so many way to make potatoes – baked, mashed, smashed, boiled, grilled, fried, slow cooked and even microwaved – but my most common cooking method of cooking potatoes is roasting them in the oven.
I love making oven roasted potatoes for three main reasons:
1. Simplicity
Oven roasted potatoes are very easy to make. All you need to do is peel and cut the potatoes into quarters, toss them with olive oil and put them in the oven. The oven does all the cooking – no need to boil water, deal with the frying pan or flip the potatoes – you put the potatoes in the oven and forget about them until the timer beeps. I love hands free cooking methods – I have better things to do than standing there and watching the potatoes :)
2. Amazing taste
Oven roasted potatoes are so delicious! Everybody loves yummy golden-brown potato pieces, hot out of the oven, sprinkled with some salt, pepper and herbs! This potato recipe is a true crowd pleaser, I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t love good ol’ roasted potatoes – yum!
3. Health factor
Oven roasted potatoes are healthy and low in calories. They get golden brown in the oven without the excess fat! Oven roasted potatoes use the minimal amount of oil (less than a teaspoon per serving). Compare this to the deep fryer :) I also have a recipe for healthy oven fries – very similar to this one, except the potatoes get cut into fry-like wedges instead!
How To Make Oven Roasted Potatoes
The secrets to amazing oven roasted potatoes are (1) high oven temperature, (2) drying potatoes with paper towels and (3) using salt after baking (not before). If you tried roasting potatoes before and they turned out mushy and soggy, chances are one of those rules wan’t followed.
Here’s a recap of the roasted potatoes making process:
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 425F.
There are many recipes that use lower oven temperature like 350F or 375F. The potatoes won’t brown well at lower temp. The correct oven temperature for perfect roasted potatoes is 425F.
Step 2: Peel, cut and dry the potatoes.
Peel the potatoes and cut into quarters. Quickly blot each potato piece with a paper towel and transfer to a bowl. I admit sometimes I skip the paper towel part when in a rush, but the resulting potatoes aren’t as well-browned.
Step 3: Toss potatoes in olive oil.
Pour oil on the potatoes and toss with your hands so all sides of the potatoes are coated with olive oil.
Step 4: Bake the potatoes.
Put the potatoes on a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet in a single layer and bake until golden-brown (about 45 minutes).
Step 5: Season the potatoes.
Season the potatoes after baking, not before! Adding salt before baking makes potatoes release their juices, resulting in soggy potatoes. That’s true for any roasted vegetables – salt after, not before.
Enjoy your amazing oven roasted potatoes! For the crispiest potatoes, serve them immediately, hot out of the oven! However, these roasted potatoes are still good the next day, they just won’t be crispy anymore, but still yummy! I often make a huge quantity of these roasted potatoes ahead for parties – everyone love them!
Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 medium potatoes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Peel the potatoes and cut into quarters. Blot each potato piece with a paper towel to absorb excess moisure and put in a bowl.
- Pour oil over the potatoes. With your hands, spread the oil all over the potatoes, so all the potato pieces are coated with oil.
- Put potatoes on the baking sheets (make sure the potatoes are not touching each other). Put in the oven and bake for 45 minutes, or until the potatoes are deep golden brown and tender when pierced with the fork.
- Remove the oven roasted potatoes from the oven. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and Italian seasoning.
- Number of servings (yield): 4
Notes
Hi Melanie,
Good recipe – I’ve been using my own version for years. One thing I also do is to turn over the potatoes after about 30 minutes. When you’re making more than a single layer of potatoes, that helps them all to brown. Our crew also likes a bit of parmesan cheese sprinkled over them for the last few minutes.
Enjoy!
Loved these potatoes! They were super easy to make a delicious!
Melanie,
I love your simplified 3 tips! I’ve seen some used on other recipes before but never all three. My question is on serving size. Using 2 medium russet potatoes per serving is what I’d “like” to eat. However, it seems that my doctor would disagree. Do you have a reaction?
Lol I also like to eat 2 medium potatoes as my serving, especially since the pieces shrink when roasted. But you are right, recommended serving size for potatoes is 1 potato, not 2 :)
Perfect recipe! I am making this two days in a row because it’s so delicious. I can’t believe I’ve been making potatoes so wrong all my life LOL
Thank you so much. I didn’t realize what I was doing before. Your directions were spot on. They were crispy and delicious.
I like the skins on potatoes. Does that change anything?
Nope! Same recipe, just leave the skin on.
What kind of potatoes did you use?
Russet. You can use any kind of potatoes for this recipe though.
Is it bad if I used foil instead of parchment paper?
Foil is fine too :)
Roast potatoes were just perfect, no messing about pre-boiling and shaking to roughen up…!!
Thank you.
I made this tonight for dinner and they were a huge hit in my house!!! I’ll definitely be repeating this recipe a lot! Goes well with chicken legs that I fried on the stove and asparagus.
What are the re-heating instructions if making a day ahead? Do I just warm them at the same temperature as roasting? For how long and should I cover it? Thanks
I just warm mine in a microwave :) You can also warm them in the oven at 350F uncovered for 10 minutes or until hot.
I made these roasted potatoes earlier today along with your roasted Cornish hen recipe. Both were so good. What is amazing about both recipes is the simplicity yet both tasted like I’d spend hours in the kitchen. No more parboiling roasted potatoes yippee!! I did peel the potatoes but may not even do that next time. Off to find more recipes at your site . . . For now thanks for two great time saving recipes!
425 how long?
The recipe card on the bottom of the article has precise instructions including the time. It’s 45 minutes.
I always add a little garlic powder to my roasted potatoes for extra flavor…
These roasted potatoes are a great addition to any holiday meal.