Oven Roasted Red Potatoes

Oven Roasted Red Potatoes with garlic and chili powder is an easy home-cooked country potatoes recipe.

Crispy skin-on red potatoes remind me of mostly breakfast but also go great with many dinners like chicken breast recipes and steak. There is nothing better than a garlic-soaked potato bite and it just takes super simple ingredients to indulge in a crispy but tender potato.

Potatoes are a super versatile side and these roasted red potatoes, a substitute for skillet-fried, are certainly an easy side dish. No matter what you serve red potatoes with, there is no doubt they will be gone before you know it!

Roasted Red Potato Ingredients

Done in the oven in under 30 minutes, these mini red potatoes are quick to prepare but pack a lot of delicious punch that adds a savory side to other breakfast recipes like biscuits and gravy casserole and family-friendly and easy to make sheet pan eggs.

What I love about red skin potatoes, is that they are the perfect ingredient to serve big crowds. Savory and filling, potatoes are everyone’s very favorite side dish for a reason.

Much like large melting potatoes in texture, these potatoes take way less time and do not require any pre-boiling or additional ingredient prep.

• SMALL RED POTATOES– Any type of potato works for this dish, but red potatoes are best. They are easy to dice down and keep a nice crispy skin. Plus they are quick to cook.
• CLASSIC SPICES AND FLAVORS – Simple seasonings like Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Minced Garlic Salt and Pepper, Cayenne Pepper
• EVOO – Olive Oil is used to roast the potatoes in the oven (no skillet needed)
• GET INDULGENT WITH DELICIOUS TOPPINGS: Cheese, Sour Cream, Salsa, Onions

Spicing up Roasted Potatoes

My kids really hate spices. I can get them to eat garlic, onion, and cumin.

Typically when I add chili powder, cayenne, or anything in the red seasoning family, they give me the side eye. So while these red potatoes have some spice in the recipe listed, they have just the right amount of heat and are great for breakfast while still fully being kid approved too.

Of course there are plenty of substitutions when it comes to a homemade blend of herbs and spices and baby red potatoes go well with rosemary, dill, thyme, or all seasoning batches like Italian seasoning or Mrs. Dash also work quite well.

How To Oven Roast Red Potatoes

1. Preheat oven on high heat to 450.
2. Cut potatoes down to bite sized chunks.
3. Do not dice them like you would in a skillet but rather a size that would fit a fork, about an inch.
4. Leave the skin on – that’s the best part and it gets nice and crispy.
5. Put prepared chunked potatoes in bowl, cover with olive oil and chosen spices, and mix until all potatoes are smothered on all sides with spices and oil. I like to just use my hands for this process.
6. Then dump the red potatoes on a prepared baking sheet and oven roast.

Don’t Burn the Potatoes!

NOTE ABOUT OVEN HEAT: These potatoes are roasting up on high heat, so if you cut them too small it speeds up the cooking time and you will need to check and possibly remove them sooner.

Take care as the roasting gets near the end, that you check on the red potatoes and pull when done. Gas ovens tend to work a lot quicker and get hotter quicker.

What do you serve Roasted Potatoes with?

• Red roasted potatoes in the morning are quite filling, so they go great with fluffy scrambled eggs or omelets, sirloin breakfast steak, or a sausage bowl. If you feel really brave, try them along side pancakes, eggless pancakes, or waffles as the sweetness of those both compliment the spicy of the potato.
• I like to include a bit of sour cream, shredded cheese, salsa or hot sauce with mine. Potatoes, in particular red potatoes, are a super forgiving recipe that just provide the best base to so many flavors.
• Roasted red potatoes are also a great side dish for chicken breast recipes like this Ritz Cracker Chicken Recipe.

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