Bacon Roasted Smashed Potatoes Recipe

How to make crispy bacon roasted potatoes. Jump to the Bacon Roasted Potatoes Recipe or read on to see our tips for making them.

Bacon Roasted Smashed Potatoes Recipe

In the recipe below, you will notice we say this will serve four. That may be true, but we managed to down every single one of these crispy smashed discs of creamy potato in one sitting. There, we warned you.

How to Make Bacon Roasted Potatoes

We cook the potatoes twice. First, we boil them. Second we smash them and bake in the oven until crispy.

How to Make Bacon Roasted Potatoes

While the potatoes are boiling, bake some bacon. When it’s crispy set the bacon aside and leave the bacon fat on the baking sheet — that’s w  hat we roast the potatoes in. Throw the cooked and drained potatoes right into the bacon fat then use a potato masher and lightly press down onto each potato.

Smash them

Season with a little olive oil, salt, pepper and herbs then roast until crisp and golden brown.

Season with salt, pepper and herbs

Recipe updated, originally posted October 2011. Since posting this in 2011, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear. – Adam and Joanne

Bacon Roasted Smashed Potatoes Recipe

  • PREP
  • COOK
  • TOTAL

You can make these smashed potatoes without bacon. Simply swap the bacon fat for olive oil, coconut oil or other favorite fat (butter works, too).

Makes 4 servings

You Will Need

1 pound baby red or yellow potatoes, scrubbed

Salt and fresh ground black pepper

4 slices thick-cut bacon

Extra-virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon fresh rosemary or 1 teaspoon dried

Sour cream and sliced scallions for serving

Directions

    1Heat oven to 400 degrees F.

    2Add potatoes to a large pot and cover with about 2 inches of water. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to a simmer and cook until fork tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain.

    3In the meantime, lay a cooling rack inside a sheet pan with edges. Then place bacon slices on to the cooling rack. Bake in the oven until crispy, 15 to 20 minutes; reserve cooked bacon slices and remove cooling rack from sheet pan. Drain all but 2 tablespoons of baking fat from the sheet pan.

    4Increase the oven temperature to 450 degrees F. Add cooked and drained potatoes to sheet pan with bacon fat then toss so the potatoes are well coated.

    5Using a potato masher, lightly press down each potato, rotate the masher 90 degrees and press down again. You should be left with discs of potato.

    6Drizzle the tops with a small amount of olive oil (or spray with non-stick cooking spray). This makes sure the potatoes are extra crispy. Season with salt, pepper and rosemary.

    7Bake until crispy and golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes.Serve with sour cream, green onion and crumbled bacon from earlier.

Adam and Joanne's Tips

If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #inspiredtaste — We love to see your creations on Instagram and Facebook! Find us: @inspiredtaste

AUTHOR: Joanne Gallagher
Inspired Taste Newsletter Signup
11 comments… Leave a Review
  • Tera Leiding April 1, 2018, 2:07 am

    Very very good with bacon

    Reply
  • Debbie August 25, 2014, 11:05 am

    I have made these potatoes just by themselves before, but flavored with garlic powder along with the S&P. They were sooo good. Also used the bottom of a glass to flatten the potatoes out as well, if you spray it with cooking spray it works very well.

    Reply
  • nat March 15, 2013, 2:08 pm

    silly question, but do you cook the bacon before placing on the cooling rack? or do you start off with raw bacon? i cant wait to make this!

    Reply
    • Adam April 8, 2013, 10:51 am

      We cook the raw bacon on the cooling rack.

      Reply
  • Ginger May 25, 2012, 3:53 pm

    Gotta make this…this weekend

    Reply
    • Sue February 21, 2013, 8:35 am

      why put oil on to bake after you have tossed the potatoes in bacon grease?

      Reply
      • Joanne February 22, 2013, 6:02 pm

        Hi Sue, The extra oil makes sure the tops of the potatoes are nice and crispy once baked. If your sheet pan has a lot of bacon fat, you could omit the olive oil and just use that. It’s really up to you.

        Reply
  • Don Odiorne January 27, 2012, 11:58 am

    Beautiful photos of crushed or smashed potatoes, bet they taste great. Perfect side dish for Valentine’s Day dinner or to serve in February during Potato Lover’s Month…

    Reply
  • Mrs. L October 21, 2011, 3:11 pm

    Sigh…everything’s better with bacon…and I’m such a potato lover…this totally works for me!

    Reply
    • inspiredtaste October 21, 2011, 4:16 pm

      couldn’t agree more!

      Reply
  • Wendi @ Bon Appetit Hon October 14, 2011, 12:14 pm

    This leaves me absolutely speechless. And hungry.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Leave a Review

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Rate this recipe!

 

All comments are moderated before appearing on the site. Thank you so much for waiting. First time commenting? Please review our comment guidelines. You must be at least 16 years old to post a comment. All comments are governed by our Privacy Policy & Terms.

Previous Post: Next Post: