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40 Perfect Potato Recipes

By The editors of MidwestLiving.com Updated September 03, 2021
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Roasted Potatoes, Fennel and Lemon on sheet pan
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Hash brown casserole, potato pancakes, double-stuffed potatoes, potato soup, potato salad, mashed potatoes—however you fix it, the potato is a tradition at Midwest tables.
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Roasted Potatoes, Fennel and Lemon

Roasted Potatoes, Fennel and Lemon on sheet pan
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Roasting lemon mellows it out without losing its brightness. All the while, it adds a lemony taste to the potatoes, fennel and sweet shallots.

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Hash Brown Casserole

Hash Brown Casserole
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An all-time reader favorite, this creamy hotdish is a guaranteed hit at potlucks. (In fact, you may want to make two pans!)

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Creamy Potato Casserole

Creamy Potato Casserole
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A little chopped ham, wedges of potatoes and a cream cheese-Gruyere sauce fill this comfort food casserole. Crushed bagel chips make a crunchy topping.

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Chicken and Corn Hash Brown Bake

Chicken and Corn Hash Brown Bake
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This comfort food hotdish offers a new twist on the usual hash brown casserole. Try it for everyday meals as well as potlucks!

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Perfect Mashed Potatoes

Perfect Mashed Potatoes
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The classic mashed potato recipe! Cooking tips: If you leave the skin on the potatoes, mash them with a potato masher rather than an electric mixer (because the skin will get caught in the beaters). If you want to use a potato ricer, wait to add the butter until after you've passed the potatoes through the ricer.

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New Potato and Chicken Casserole

New Potato and Chicken Casserole
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Green beans, mushrooms, leeks, potato and handy rotisserie chicken make this creamy casserole a true one-dish meal.

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Potato Latkes

Potato Latkes
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Cast iron's heat retention means oil holds a high temperature, so fried foods crisp quickly and evenly. These traditional Jewish potato-onion fritters have tender centers and lacy rims. Top them with sour cream or applesauce.

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Bavarian-Style Potato Salad

Bavarian-Style Potato Salad
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Serve this tangy vinegar-based potato salad with bratwurst and sauerkraut for a meal worthy of a German beer garden.

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Cheesy Potato Soup

Cheesy Potato Soup
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Potato, bacon and cheese--all the flavors you love in a bowl of soup! The American cheese keeps the soup from curdling while it slow cooks. Mashing cooked potatoes a bit gives the soup some body, while the bacon adds a smoky-salty taste.

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Shingled Potatoes with Thyme

Shingled Potatoes with Thyme
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Layering thinly sliced potatoes in a casserole dish means the tops get crisp while the bottoms are meltingly tender. 

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Bacon-Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes

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Tangy blue cheese and salty bacon make traditional mashed potatoes even more indulgent.

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German Potato Salad

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Serve this old-fashioned potluck dish warm.

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Chipotle Smashed Potatoes

Chipotle Smashed Potatoes
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This is the ultimate feel-good dish: two kinds of mashed potatoes with bacon. Cream cheese adds richness; chipotle chile brings a subtle smoky flavor.

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Glad Tidings Potatoes

Glad Tidings Potatoes
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Drizzle red-skinned new potatoes with a rich, cheesy sauce to make Glad Tidings Potatoes, from western South Dakota's Spearfish Canyon Lodge.

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Best Potato Pancakes

Best Potato Pancakes
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Our taste panel loved this comfort food from The Echo in Cincinnati. For a crispy crust, cook the potatoes at a higher temperature.

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On-the-Light Side Potato Salad

On-the-Light Side Potato Salad
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This lighter version of traditional potato salad calls for cubed white, red or Yukon gold potatoes mixed with light sour cream and a combination of olive oil, vinegar, garlic and black pepper.

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Grilled Sweet Potato Wedges with Dipping Sauces

Grilled Sweet Potato Wedges with Dipping Sauces
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Use either unpeeled sweet potatoes or russet potatoes for these easy grilled potato wedges. Cook wedges in boiling water first to shorten grill time. Serve with Creamy Chive Sauce or Honey Sesame Sauce.

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Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Garlic Mashed Potatoes
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Quivey's Grove in Madison, Wisconsin, whips up this version of mashed potatoes that matches plenty of dairy richness with garlic, Parmesan, black pepper and green onion.

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Twice-Baked Potatoes

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Mix butter, sour cream and Swiss or Gruyere cheese into mashed Yukon Gold potatoes to create this rich side dish. Our recipe also gives variations for Bacon-Cheddar Twice-Baked Potatoes and Southwestern Twice-Baked Potatoes.

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Swiss-Potato Breakfast Casserole

Swiss-Potato Breakfast Casserole
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With just 180 calories per serving, this meal is lighter than many casserole options. But it combines favorite flavors, including ham, eggs, cheese and potatoes. It's perfect for brunch.

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Roesti

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The New Glarus Hotel in New Glarus, Wisconsin, serves up a taste of Switzerland with this potato cake -- pure comfort food made from just five ingredients.

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Smoked Turkey and Sweet Potato Hash

Smoked Turkey and Sweet Potato Hash
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This colorful one-skillet meal lends itself to improvisation; you could trade the red sweet peppers for green, the spinach for kale, the turkey for ham or the fried eggs for scrambled. Of course, we think the original recipe is pretty darn perfect, with a blend of potatoes and tasty browned onions whose caramelly flavor ties the dish together.

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Cranberry-Apple Sweet Potatoes

Cranberry-Apple Sweet Potatoes
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Mix pantry ingredients -- canned apple pie filling, canned sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, apricot preserves, orange marmalade and chopped pecans -- for a quick-and-easy side dish with a crunchy nut topping.

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Herbed Egg-Potato Bake

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You can assemble the cheesy Herbed Egg-Potato Bake up to two days ahead and refrigerate it.

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Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Pecans

Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Pecans
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Toasted pecans and melty marshmallows top whipped sweet potatoes in this classic special-occasion side dish.

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Creamy Scalloped Potatoes

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This easy-to-make layered cheesy potato dish pairs well with pork chops or ham.

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Bacon and Baked Potato Soup

Bacon and Baked Potato Soup
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Salty-smoky crumbled bacon tops our cheesy potato soup. "I made this soup and we loved it! Best potato soup ever!" writes one of our website reviewers. "I put carrots in mine; made it even better."

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Fire-Roasted Dilled Potato Medley

Fire-Roasted Dilled Potato Medley
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Season this colorful potato, carrot and onion combination with just dill, salt and pepper.

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Grilled Potato Packets

Grilled Potato Packets
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Slice russet potatoes and combine with sweet peppers, onion and fresh parsley for Grilled Potato Packets. Foil packets trap steam that gives potatoes a boiled flavor and texture.

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Nacho Potato Skins

Nacho Potato Skins
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Whip up this easy appetizer ahead of time, and store it in your fridge. A few minutes before you want to serve them, broil until hot and crispy.

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Grandma's Potato Salad

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This sweet, radish-studded potato salad recipe was handed down from a Cosmos, Minnesota, grandmother to her twin granddaughters.

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Calico Potatoes

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Bacon drippings combine with sizzling onions to give this two-potato side dish an irresistible aroma and flavor.

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Spicy Double-Smoked Mashed Potatoes

Spicy Double-Smoked Mashed Potatoes
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The secret to these potatoes is boiling whole peeled garlic cloves along with the potatoes. Shredded smoked Gouda cheese and finely chopped chopotle pepper in adobe sauce add to the spicy flavor.

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Roasted Baby Potatoes with Herbs

Roasted Baby Potatoes with Herbs
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We play up an assortment of potatoes--such as baby Dutch yellow, fingerlings, baby purple and round red--in this easy-to-fix recipe.

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Fingerling Potato Salad with Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette

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You'll have more Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette than you need for this fresh-tasting potato salad; keep the extra dressing on hand for another potato or pasta salad. The recipe is from Chicago chef Myk Banas.

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Easy Potato Soup

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This quick and easy recipe, from a Halstad, Minnesota, farming family, features just five ingredients and can be on the table in 15 minutes.

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Pick the right potato

Pick the right potato

Starchy potatoes mash, bake, fry and roast well, while waxy ones work best in casseroles and salads because they hold their shape. Look for smooth, firm spuds without cracks or soft spots. Whether you peel is your choice.

New potatoes: Young potatoes, any variety, have very thin skins, less starch and a waxy texture. Best for boiling, grilling and roasting.

Russets: Also called Idaho or baking potatoes, these thick-skinned tan spuds are mealy with lots of eyes and a high starch content. Best for baking, grilling, mashing, frying.

Round white potatoes: With light beige skin and white flesh, these medium-starch, waxy-textured potatoes work for boiling and frying.

Long white potatoes: The thin-skinned oval spuds' firm, waxy texture and tiny eyes make them an all-purpose choice.

Round red potatoes: Thin-skinned, these rosy-colored potatoes have a firm, waxy texture. Use in dishes where shape is important.

Yellow potatoes: These thin-skinned beauties come in varieties such as Yukon gold and Finnish yellow. They're smooth-textured and buttery--good for any dish.

Sweet potatoes: These spuds fall into two categories: orange, moist and sweet, or yellow, dry and unsweet. Either kind is good for baking, grilling, roasting and boiling.

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    1 of 37 Roasted Potatoes, Fennel and Lemon
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    4 of 37 Chicken and Corn Hash Brown Bake
    5 of 37 Perfect Mashed Potatoes
    6 of 37 New Potato and Chicken Casserole
    7 of 37 Potato Latkes
    8 of 37 Bavarian-Style Potato Salad
    9 of 37 Cheesy Potato Soup
    10 of 37 Shingled Potatoes with Thyme
    11 of 37 Bacon-Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
    12 of 37 German Potato Salad
    13 of 37 Chipotle Smashed Potatoes
    14 of 37 Glad Tidings Potatoes
    15 of 37 Best Potato Pancakes
    16 of 37 On-the-Light Side Potato Salad
    17 of 37 Grilled Sweet Potato Wedges with Dipping Sauces
    18 of 37 Garlic Mashed Potatoes
    19 of 37 Twice-Baked Potatoes
    20 of 37 Swiss-Potato Breakfast Casserole
    21 of 37 Roesti
    22 of 37 Smoked Turkey and Sweet Potato Hash
    23 of 37 Cranberry-Apple Sweet Potatoes
    24 of 37 Herbed Egg-Potato Bake
    25 of 37 Sweet Potatoes with Toasted Pecans
    26 of 37 Creamy Scalloped Potatoes
    27 of 37 Bacon and Baked Potato Soup
    28 of 37 Fire-Roasted Dilled Potato Medley
    29 of 37 Grilled Potato Packets
    30 of 37 Nacho Potato Skins
    31 of 37 Grandma's Potato Salad
    32 of 37 Calico Potatoes
    33 of 37 Spicy Double-Smoked Mashed Potatoes
    34 of 37 Roasted Baby Potatoes with Herbs
    35 of 37 Fingerling Potato Salad with Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette
    36 of 37 Easy Potato Soup
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