Parmesan Baked Potato Halves
These Parmesan Baked Potato Halves are a favorite side dish for all kinds of meals. The outer crust is buttery and cheesy and the inside is tender and flaky and so full of flavor. Try these as an alternative to quick baked potatoes. They cook up fast on a baking sheet and are always tender inside, crisp and buttery on the outside. This is a terrific side to make when you need to use up leftover potatoes. Dress them up with green onions or chives. Delicious!
Ingredients for Parmesan Baked Potato Halves
The beauty of this potato recipe is how simple they are to make! No complicated ingredients or time consuming steps. Here’s all you need:
Potatoes – I like to use small russet potatoes for this recipe. Scrub potatoes and then cut them in half.Butter – use whatever butter you have on hand. Grated Parmesan cheese – You can find fresh parmesan at any grocery store.Garlic powder – if you have garlic salt, you can use that too.Salt and pepper – to taste
Tips for Parmesan Baked Potatoes
Use parchment paper to cover the sheet pan so the potatoes don’t stick.Place the potatoes cut side down on the sheet.Use a fork or a sharp knife to test if the potatoes are done before removing from the oven.Let the potato halves cool for at least five minutes before removing them from the pan. If you take them off the pan right out of the oven, the parmesan crust on the potato comes right off. But if you give it time and then take them off, the crust sticks to the potatoes beautifully.
How to Serve Parmesan Potatoes
These Parmesan Baked Potato Halves are great on their own, but we especially love dipping them in a side of sour cream sprinkled with a little dried basil. Ranch dressing is also REALLY good! You can make these with potatoes other than russets. We have made them with red potatoes and gold potatoes, and both were really good too. Try them for yourself and decide how you like them best!
What Goes Well With Parmesan Potato Halves
My husband always request these Parmesan Baked Potato Halves as a side dish to go along with when we are cooking meat on the grill. It’s nice because I can throw these in the oven while he is grilling and all the food is ready at the same time. Some of our favorite grill recipes that we serve up with the Parmesan Baked Potato Halves are our New York Steaks and our Kansas City Baby Back Ribs. Both are so yummy. And if you like grilled chicken you should definitely try our Grilled Malibu Chicken, Grilled Balsamic Chicken, and Grilled Coconut Curry Chicken.
More Potato Side Dishes
If you love potatoes as much as we do you should definitely try some of these other potato sides. Similar to how we make the Parmesan Baked Potato Halves, we have our Coconut Pecan Sweet Baked Potato Halves. These are loaded with a coconut and pecan pieces and have a yummy cinnamon marshmallow dip. In the savory potato category we have our Broccoli Cheese Stuffed Potato Skins and Cheesy Bacon Potato Skins, both are awesome for appetizers and parties! If you like potato wedges and fries we have traditional Potato Wedges and Loaded Potato Wedges and Sweet Potato Fries with a Tangy Chipotle Lime Dip. If you are a potato salad lover, we have you covered! Both our Homestyle Potato Salad and Bacon Gorgonzola Potato Salad are so incredibly good.
The Best Potato Recipes
These Parmesan baked potato halves have been such a huge hit with our readers, we have included them in our “Best Potato Recipes Straight From Idaho” post! You will find ALL of our top reader favorites in this post as well. Try them all!
How to make Parmesan Baked Potato Halves
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