Potato Recipes That Are Perfect For Any Backyard Cookout (18 Recipes, 2 Articles)
I can live on potatoes and wine and nothing else. Fortunately they go super with barbecue and can be cooked outdoors easily. Here are some recipes inspired by potato dishes from around the world. Below are my favorite potato recipes.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
What's up with spuds? Here's everything a cook needs to know about buying potatoes, storing potatoes, and cleaning potatoes.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Here's a recipe for making delicious garlic mashed potatoes sweet and mellow with none of that raw garlic harshness. Most mashed potato recipes call for cream, half-and-half, or milk. This recipe is so good and creamy you don't need any cream in the mix or gravy on the table.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Potatoes are a food whose center and skin need separate treatment. For baked potatoes, we want a soft, moist, fluffy inside, and a dry, crisp skin.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Can you make a potato cook faster by driving a nail through the center? In theory, the metal nail conducts heat through the potato, speeding up the cooking. To test the theory, our AmazingRibs.com science advisor, Professor Greg Blonder, ran a simple experiment. The results may surprise you.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Baked potatoes are so good that they become even better by baking them twice! For this method, I bake the potatoes whole on the grill, then mash and mix the cooked potato with spiced sour cream, stuff it back into the potato jacket, top it with cheddar cheese and bake it again. Potato nirvana!
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Piquant from lemon juice and aromatic from garlic and oregano, you will be cooking this simple recipe for Greek Potatoes every night. These flavorful potatoes are much less greasy than the ones served in most Greek restaurants and can be prepared either on the grill or on the stovetop.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Make mom proud with this recipe for the perfect potato salad. No backyard BBQ is complete without potato salad but often times it can be lacking in flavor. The secret to old fashioned potato salad is the dressing, a simple blend of mayonnaise and sour cream that perfectly complements the other ingredients.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Take boring potato salad and make it extraordinary for your next cookout with this recipe for mayo mojo potato salad. This really easy potato salad recipe is just as delicious when served warm as when it is chilled. It uses mayo mojo, a spice mix you can make in quantity and leave it on the shelf until you need it.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Hot German potato salad is sweet and sour, spicy, savory, rich, meaty, and warm all the way down. This Oktoberfest recipe is perfect for those chilly fall tailgates.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
The warm French potato salad just might be the world's easiest potato salad. Olive oil, salt, and fresh herbs are all you really need. It's a snap to make and soooo good. Served warm, it is a sure-fire hit.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
If you're a blue cheese fan then you're going to love this recipe for a potato salad that highlights the complex flavors of these aged cheeses. In fact, this recipe for blue cheese potato salad is so simple, so quick, and so tasty that it's sure to become your go-to side dish for parties and backyard cookouts.
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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Editorial Director
This tasty recipe for a potato salad is a bit sharper tasting than traditional American style potato salad, thanks to a healthy dose of vinegar in the dressing. It is more akin to German style potato salad without the mustard and served cold instead of warm.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
It's time to rethink serving ordinary potato salad as a side dish at your next BBQ and grilling cookout thanks to this delicious recipe for pesto potatoes. Pesto is a savory pasty green sauce that traditionally includes basil leaves, olive oil, plenty of garlic, pine nuts or walnuts, and parmesan cheese.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
This delicious salt potatoes recipe is based on a traditional upstate New York side dish. Salt potatoes came about in the 1800s when, legend has it, Irish salt miners made lunch by putting potatoes in baskets and lowered them into the kettles of boiling brine. The spuds were then crowned with gobs of butter.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Try this updated recipe for Syracuse salt potatoes with less salt and more flavor. I add garlic and herbs and grill the spuds to crunchify them. Just don't call them Syracuse Salt Potatoes.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
This simple, yet flavor packed recipe for hash browns, aka potato pancakes and latkes is the most perfect use of potatoes with their mahogany crunchy edges, crispy golden midsection, and tender, rich, meaty interiors. Traditionally fried in December for Hanukkah, potato latkes are hash browns on steroids.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Elevate ordinary fries by grilling them. In this easy recipe, sweet potatoes are cut into sticks and seasoned with a sweet and spicy blend of brown sugar, chipotle powder, herbs, and spices. Then they are grilled until smoky, golden brown, and crisp. Yum.
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Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality
If you’re a fan of sweet potato fries then you’ll do backflips over this grill fried recipe featuring perfectly deep fried sweet potato sticks coated with smoked honey and garnished with deep fried sage. Even better, deep frying is done on the grill, doing away with the mess and lingering odor of deep frying indoors.
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Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality
If your side dishes seem a bit tired, try a new twist with grilled hasselback sweet potatoes. Sliced partially through, the sweet potatoes begin to open up like an accordion, making for a stunning presentation. A flavorful blend of butter, pecans, and maple syrup makes the dish even more impressive for guests.
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Clint Cantwell, AmazingRibs.com President And BBQ Personality
Sweet maple syrup and spicy sriracha make a fantastic combination in this recipe for smoked mashed sweet potatoes. Grilled until tender, the smoked mashed sweet potatoes are combined with butter for richness, maple syrup for sweetness, and just enough Sriracha to bring a touch of heat. It's sweet potato bliss!
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