Best 7 Salt Baked New Potatoes With Pink Peppercorn Butter Recipes
Salt baked potatoes have been a beloved culinary tradition across many cultures for centuries. These small, round potatoes, encased in a crisp salt crust, offer a unique sensory experience, combining the earthy flavors of the potato with the salty, savory crunch of the baked outer layer. When paired with the aromatic and flavorful pink peppercorn butter, these salt-baked new potatoes create a harmonious balance of textures and tastes.
Here are our top 7 tried and tested recipes!
SALT-BAKED NEW POTATOES WITH PINK-PEPPERCORN BUTTER
This way of cooking recently harvested new potatoes, by burying them in a plaster of damp salt and baking them, is a triple pleasure: effortless, tasty and very fun. The salt crust seasons the potatoes perfectly, just as it would if you'd boiled or steamed them in salted water, but the airtight seal concentrates their special flavor and texture. They come out dense, waxy and almost creamy. Bring the pan of cooked potatoes to the table right from the oven as is, so everyone can puzzle over the curious-looking white crust, and then delight over the discovery of the piping hot little beauties revealed inside once the surface is cracked. Dig them out and swoop through the butter before popping into your mouth, their skins so paper-thin they snap when you bite into them. Their appeal is irresistible.
Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton
Categories dinner, vegetables, side dish
Time 45m
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Wash the potatoes.
- In a large bowl, mix the salt, rosemary needles, peppercorns and 1 cup water together with your hands, crushing the peppercorns a little between your fingers and bruising the rosemary needles to release their sticky oil, making a moist, fragrant and pink-and-green speckled sand. (You might have to add a few splashes of water if the mixture needs more moisture to feel like wet sand.)
- Transfer a little less than half this salt mixture into the bottom of a wide, shallow, heavy ovenproof skillet or casserole to make a salt bed about 1/2-inch thick.
- Nestle the potatoes into the sand, close to one another but not quite touching, if possible.
- Pack the rest of the salt mixture over the nestled potatoes, and rub and brush and smooth it with your hands until you have tightly encased the potatoes in a little salt sarcophagus. The rounded tops of the potatoes will just show as bumps under the salt cast.
- Bake the potatoes for 30 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester easily pierces the potatoes and tests warm on your chin or the back of your hand. The salt casing will dry and harden like clay - and smell delicious while baking.
- While the potatoes roast, prepare the compound butter: Grind the peppercorns in a mortar and pestle with the whole branches of rosemary to create an oily, coarse powder. Remove the bruised rosemary sprigs, shaking off any clinging pink peppercorns, and discard. (You just want to extract the oily flavor from the rosemary, not the needles themselves.) In a small bowl, mash the oily peppercorn powder with the salted butter using a fork until well blended.
- To serve, rap the salt-packed potatoes forcefully on a sturdy surface that can handle it, to crack the salt crust from the force. A few solid raps will loosen the potatoes inside. If the cast needs a little more help, use a regular dinner knife like a spade to just pop open the salt crust along its fault lines. The potatoes are easily plucked from the dry salt. Set out with the compound butter in a small bowl on the side.
ROASTED NEW RED POTATOES
These are roasted potatoes at their best - plain and simple. Red potatoes are tossed with olive oil, and salt and pepper, and then roasted to perfection.
Provided by Ben S.
Categories Side Dish Potato Side Dish Recipes Roasted Potato Recipes
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 450 degrees. Toss potatoes with oil, salt and pepper. Arrange, cut side down, on a large lipped cookie sheet or jellyroll pan.
- Roast until tender and golden brown, about 30 minutes (check after 20 minutes). Transfer to a serving dish.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 178.9 calories, Carbohydrate 27.1 g, Fat 7 g, Fiber 2.9 g, Protein 3.2 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Sodium 301 mg, Sugar 1.7 g
NEW POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPERCORN BUTTER
Provided by Michael Smith
Categories Dairy Herb Potato Side Spice Fall Summer Bon Appétit Sugar Conscious Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free
Yield Makes 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Combine broth and peppercorns in small saucepan. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Uncover and simmer until mixture is reduced to 1/4 cup, about 15 minutes. Add brandy; simmer until mixture is reduced to 3 tablespoons, about 10 minutes. Cool. Blend peppercorn mixture, butter, lemon juice, shallot and thyme in processor until peppercorns are finely chopped. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Chill. Use at room temperature.)
- Cook potatoes in pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain. Quarter potatoes. Place in large bowl. Add onions and 1/4 cup peppercorn butter (reserve remaining peppercorn butter for another use); toss gently. Season to taste with salt.
OVEN-BAKED NEW POTATOES
These are very easy, and very versatile. I have two cans listed, if you want to make a smaller recipe then use 1 29 oz. can for an 8x8 pan.
Provided by Bradshaw Brood
Categories Potato
Time 35m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- After your oven has preheated put your stick of butter in a 13x9 pan, and place it in the oven to melt.
- If you have the whole potatoes then slice your potatoes while you are melting your butter.
- After your butter has melted pull your pan out and carefully add your potatoes
- Gently stir potatoes around to coat potatoes with butter.
- Add salt and pepper to taste. You can add any kind of spices you want.
- Bake for 30-35 minute till golden brown.
SALT-BAKED POTATOES
Give jacket potatoes a new lease of life with this simple side dish, great with a summer roast
Provided by James Martin
Categories Lunch, Side dish
Time 2h35m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Put the egg whites and salt in 2 shallow bowls. Dip each potato into the egg white to completely cover, then dab into the salt to cover in patches. Carefully put the potatoes onto a baking sheet, pressing on any remaining salt, then bake for 1½ hrs.
- Bake them for a further 1 hr at 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Scrape off as little or as much of the salt as you like before eating.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 153 calories, Carbohydrate 34 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 1 grams sugar, Fiber 3 grams fiber, Protein 5 grams protein, Sodium 3.82 milligram of sodium
NEW POTATOES IN BUTTER SAUCE
This is a simple new potato side dish that is easy to make. The butter sauce is opaque and silky with a mild onion taste.
Provided by Janice Nagle
Time 35m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Place potatoes into a large pot and cover with salted water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes. Drain potatoes and save about 1/2 cup cooking water in the pot.
- Add 2 or 3 potatoes pieces back into the pot with the cooking water and mash them to thicken the sauce a bit. Add butter and stir until melted. Stir in green onions. Return hot potatoes to the pot and stir gently until coated in the sauce.
- Let sit until potatoes soak up the butter sauce, 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper if desired. Serve hot.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 308.8 calories, Carbohydrate 24 g, Cholesterol 61 mg, Fat 23.2 g, Fiber 4 g, Protein 3.6 g, SaturatedFat 14.6 g, Sodium 179.3 mg, Sugar 2.2 g
LEMON-BUTTER NEW POTATOES
With an abundance of potatoes in our garden each summer, I often make this easy recipe. We love the combination of parsley and spices, and the lemony butter sauce. They make a great accompaniment to grilled fish. -Sandra McKenzie, Braham, Minnesota
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Side Dishes
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Peel a strip from around each potato. Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15-20 minutes or just until tender., Meanwhile, in small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the lemon juice, salt, lemon zest, pepper and nutmeg. Drain potatoes and place in a serving bowl. Pour butter mixture over potatoes; toss gently to coat. Sprinkle with parsley.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 238 calories, Fat 15g fat (10g saturated fat), Cholesterol 40mg cholesterol, Sodium 707mg sodium, Carbohydrate 23g carbohydrate (2g sugars, Fiber 3g fiber), Protein 3g protein.
Tips:
- To save time, use pre-washed new potatoes.
- If you don't have pink peppercorns, you can use black peppercorns instead.
- To make the salt crust, use coarse salt. Fine salt will dissolve too quickly and won't create a good crust.
- When baking the potatoes, place them in a single layer on the baking sheet. This will help them cook evenly.
- The potatoes are done baking when they are tender when pierced with a fork.
- Let the potatoes cool for a few minutes before breaking the salt crust. This will help prevent the potatoes from breaking apart.
- Serve the potatoes immediately with the pink peppercorn butter.
Conclusion:
Salt-baked new potatoes with pink peppercorn butter is a delicious and easy-to-make side dish. The potatoes are tender and flavorful, and the pink peppercorn butter adds a touch of spice and sophistication. This dish is perfect for a weeknight meal or a special occasion.
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