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70 Smashed, Mashed and Roasted Red Potato Recipes To Transform the Baby Spud

70 Smashed, Mashed and Roasted Red Potato Recipes To Transform the Baby Spud

Red potatoes can do it all.

If you love potatoes, and can’t live without them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, then you’re probably well acquainted with the more popular Yukon Gold and russet potato varieties.

Now it’s time to try a less common variety: the red potato. Relatively smaller in size compared to their larger white and yellow counterparts, red potatoes are called that precisely because they have thin, red skin with some light brown spots or speckles.

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How To Cook Red Potatoes

Red potatoes are often cooked with their skin on, and they are waxy and dense in texture, with an earthy flavor.

Whether you like cooking red potatoes in a skillet or prefer oven-roasted red potatoes, red potato salad, boiled and mashed red potatoes, or cooked and smashed red potatoes, there are countless ways to cook these baby red baby spuds. And undoubtedly they make unique size dishes (or mains—we won’t judge!).

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Best Red Potato Recipes

Here are 70 of the best red potato recipes for any time of day. Browse through them, make sure you pin your favorites (and we assure you there’ll be plenty!) and let’s get cooking.

<p>Melissa Sperka</p>
<p>Parade</p>
<p>Damn Delicious</p>
<p>The Food Cafe</p>
<p>Domestic Superhero</p>
<p>A Couple Cooks</p>
<p>Pinch and Swirl</p>
<p>Recipe Tin Eats</p>
<p>The Gracious Wife</p>
<p>The Glass Pantry</p>
<p>Cooking Classy</p>
<p>Plain Chicken</p>
<p>The Chunky Chef</p>
<p>Lil' Luna</p>
<p>Foodie Crush</p>
<p>Saving Dessert</p>
<p>Simple Italian Cooking</p>
<p>The Cookie Rookie</p>
<p>Kinda Healthy Recipes</p>
<p>Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen</p>

Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

<p>Eating on a Dime</p>
<p>Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes</p>

Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes

<p>Spicy Southern Kitchen</p>
<p>Rachael's Good Eats</p>
<p>Gimme Some Oven</p>
<p>Aberdeen's Kitchen</p>
<p>Closet Cooking</p>
<p>Cooktoria</p>
<p>Dinner then Dessert</p>
<p>The Cozy Cook</p>
<p>The Diary of a Real Housewife</p>

The Diary of a Real Housewife

<p>Whole and Heavenly Oven</p>
<p>Dinner at the Zoo</p>
<p>Clean Food Crush</p>
<p>For the Love of Gourmet</p>
<p>Eat Something Vegan</p>
<p>Meaningful Mama</p>
<p>Six Sisters' Stuff</p>
<p>Modern Crumb</p>
<p>Emily Enchanted</p>
<p>Happily Unprocessed</p>
<p>Cafe Delites</p>
<p>The Seasoned Mom</p>
<p>Macheesmo</p>
<p>Baking Mischief</p>
<p>Hello Veggie</p>
<p>Whole and Heavenly Oven</p>
<p>With Salt and Wit</p>
<p>A Family Feast</p>
<p>Noshtastic</p>
<p>Just Destiny</p>
<p>The First Mess</p>
<p>Simple Seasonal</p>
<p>The Two Bite Club</p>
<p>Spoonful of Flavor</p>
<p>No Spoon Necessary</p>
<p>A Southern Soul</p>
<p>The Salty Marshmallow</p>
<p>Vegan in the Freezer</p>
<p>The Food Charlatan</p>
<p>Diethood</p>
<p>Foodie Crush</p>
<p>Small Town Woman</p>
<p>Tastes Better from Scratch</p>

Tastes Better from Scratch

<p>Chef Not Required</p>
<p>Easy Potato Recipes</p>
<p>Natasha's Kitchen</p>
<p>Tastes of Lizzy T</p>
<p>Foodie Crush</p>

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