Roasted Smashed Potatoes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

Side Dishes
Potatoes
    

How do you produce spuds with mashed-potato creaminess and crackly-crisp crusts without deep frying? It’s a pressing issue.

SERVES4 to 6

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our roasted smashed potatoes recipe, we chose Red Bliss potatoes for their moist texture and thin skin. Parcooking the potatoes on a baking sheet covered in foil on the oven’s bottom rack, with a splash of water in the pan, gave us crea...

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