Roast potatoes are one of the simplest, tastiest side dishes. Sprinkle with something and then throw in the oven. There are a million ways to make them and they are all delicious. For such a versitile ingredient, I don’t generally do a lot with taters because they bore me. I like my potatoes in french fry form, so I usually don’t even buy them.
While making cornish game hens for the first time, I needed a simple side dish so I grabbed some pesto I had in the fridge and voila, yummy potatoes. I am now thinking of other ways to do this, I think my next try will be with cilantro pesto and maybe a squeeze of lime juice.
Pesto Roast Potatoes
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Author: Dara
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1lb fingerling or new potatoes, washed and quartered
- 1 tbsp prepared pesto
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan
- 1 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat overn to 425
- Toss potato wedges with pesto, parmesan and pepper
- Roast for 30-40 minutes, tossing once halfway
- Serve hot.
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I also find potatoes boring… Except for roasted. Just love them. This sounds like a very tasty variation for me to try!
I love your way of roasting potatoes my friend, this is incredible
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
This is definitely one of my favourite side.
Those would be a big hit around here. Great to pair to chicken.
LL
These are the perfect roasted potatoes. I’ve always been afraid to roast potatoes with basil or pesto because I figures that it would burn before the potatoes are done. How wrong was I? These potatoes look delicious!
Yum! Very comforting looking!
Love these potatoes. Roast veggies are my fave way to do them. They just pump up the flavour.
Great idea! I love pesto on everything but am yet to try this.