Looking for an Italian-style potato side dish to delight you? Well, this two-cheese roasted cheese garlic potatoes will do that and more. Let me just say that I just tasted one, and they earned a spot on my Holiday Menu. They are that good.
Unlike many potato dishes, they do not involve many steps, so they will be a God-send for those dinner-parties you plan to host.
What to expect: bite into an ultra crispy cheesy potato. You’ll be delighted by the flavour profile: cheesy, garlicky, and a tiny spicy. The texture is thick and crispy but the potatoes are warm and fluffy. Isn’t that the dream potato?
If you want to make them, just keep reading.
Ingredients for Simple Cheese Garlic Potatoes
You literally need just 5 ingredients to make this scrumptious cheese garlic potatoes, plus your usual seasoning and EVOO.
Fill your pot with water and add a generous amount of salt. Let it come to a boil.
In the meantime, wash and peel your potatoes. If your potatoes are not small, you'll need to cut them into the size of a baby potato.
Add the potatoes to boil, and set the timer for 12 minutes.
Weigh and grate your provolone cheese. If you don't want to use the scale, simply use the packaging grams to eye ball the quantity.
Weigh and grate your parmesan cheese.
Prepare 25 gr of breadcrumbs in a bowl.
When your potatoes are ready from cooking, drain and transfer them to a bowl to cool.
Once cool, you can work with them. First thing, you need to season them with salt and black pepper.
Then add the Belmorso Garlic Paté and mix gently.
Next, add the two cheeses you grated.
Then, add the breadcrumbs and mix well but delicately so the potatoes don't break.
Drizzle a generous amount of Belmorso Extra Virgin Olive Oil at the bottom of your dish, and move the dish around so the oil coats the entire bottom.
Next, transfer the potatoes to your dish and even the top using your spoon.
Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for a total of 1 hr.
First bake for 10 minutes at the top of the oven. Then transfer to the lower level, and bake for the remaining 50 minutes.
Take out of the oven and serve with your protein of choice. See my suggestions below.
Notes
Please note that the indicated price will drop if you opt for non-organic potatoes. And so will the calories if you divide the portions into three, rather than 2 large ones.
What goes with cheesy potatoes?
Potatoes and sausages is a match made in heaven independently of what’s your nationality. This is why we suggest serving your roasted cheese garlic potatoes with sausages.
As we are making an Italian Roasted Cheese Garlic Potatoes, we’ll be serving them with Italian sausages.
The variety we are using are Pork and Parmesan Sausages, but any other Italian sausages you can find will do.
To cook them simply, add them to a baking dish with some foil and bake/roast in the oven for about 30 minutes.
Other Potatoes Recipes You Should Try
If you love your potatoes, and want to try eating them the Italian way, here are three dishes you should make next.
If you want to use Italian cheeses, use one of these combinations:
Provolone Dolce and Parmesan Cheese
Mozzarella and Parmesan
Emmental and Parmesan
Asiago and Pecorino
Fontina and Pecorino
Ricotta and Parmesan
Scamorza Dolce & Pecorino
Blue Cheese and Parmesan
Caciocavallo and Pecorino
Taleggio and Blue Cheese
Feel free to play around with different combinations. The key is to combine one softer cheese with a harder one if you want melting power and flavour.
If you just want to add some cheesy flavour in your pasta, minestrone or bruschetta you can use two dry cheeses like Parmesan and Pecorino (Romano) together.
What kind of cheese goes well with potatoes?
If you want a lot of flavour, you'll never go wrong with Italian cheeses. We suggest using a combination of one hard and one soft cheese, so you can add gooeyness and taste at the same time. Try Provolone and Parmesan, Fontina and Pecorino, or Blue cheese and Parmesan.
What are the names of italian potatoes?
Italy grows 36 different varieties of potatoes. They can be divided into 6 main varieties: pasta bianca (white potatoes), pasta gialla (yellow potatoes), buccia rossa e pasta gialla (red skinned potatoes with a yellow flesh), patate viola (purple potatoes), and patate Tuche. The most used in Italy are the yellow potatoes in these varieties: Agata, Spunta, Marabel, Liseta, Lutetia, Bologna DOP and Arsy.
How are potatoes eaten in Italy?
Italians eat a lot of potatoes, but not in the same way an American or British person would.
They eat less chips, and more roasted potatoes.
They like to cook with potatoes a lot. In fact, there are many Italian breads made with potatoes.
There's an Italian pasta, called gnocchi, that's made with potatoes and flour.
Italians also like to add potatoes to pies and closed pizzas.
Crocchette di patata, or potato croquettes, are another popular potato dish.
Italians also use potato to bind vegetable and meat patties.
Is it necessary to boil potatoes before roasting?
Whether you are peeling or keeping the skin of your potatoes on, boiling potatoes before roasting is a must. Here is why:
Boiling potatoes will soften the skin or the entire potato, which will make it easier to crisp up in the oven.
It will make your roasted potatoes fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside.
It will help the extra ingredients stick to the potatoes, and make them more flavourful.
It will make sure your potatoes are cooked on the inside.
It will make the skin pleasant to eat, not too hard, if you choose to keep it on.