A beautiful side dish for your meals. Serve these baby potatoes with butter and dill next to your favorite grilled meats and salads.
This recipe is good all year round but better when you use new potatoes in the spring or early summer. Versatile, economical, and easy to make, this dish will feed and make your family happy.
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🥔 Are Baby Potatoes And New Potatoes The Same?
Baby potatoes and new potatoes are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences. New potatoes are young and harvested early when the plant is still flowering, usually in spring or early summer. They feature delicate, thin skin and a sweet, buttery flavor, making them ideal for boiling or steaming.
Baby potatoes refer to any small potato variety and can be harvested at any stage of the plant's growth cycle. These potatoes, which can be red, white, or yellow, are versatile in preparation and suitable for roasting, boiling, or mashing.
While new potatoes are a specific type of baby potato harvested early for their unique texture and flavor, baby potatoes can include a variety of small potatoes like baby reds, fingerlings, Yukon golds, or baby russets, harvested at different times. The key difference lies in the harvest time and specific characteristics.
I love simple dishes like this one! Think about spring, when you can pair them with roasted lamb for Easter or, in the cold season, with ham for the holidays. Yum!
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📝 Ingredients
- Potatoes: For this recipe, use new or baby potatoes. Choose small, uniform-sized potatoes so they all cook at the same time, and the skin doesn't burst.
- Butter: Go for good quality butter. I love Irish butter, but there are so many good brands out there that are great.
- Fresh dill: Fresh herbs are always better than dried ones, so I recommend you look for them first. Fresh dill must be washed very well, as it collects a lot of sand that must be removed. Rinse it under cold water and pat it dry using a clean kitchen towel or paper towel. If you don't like dill, you can replace it with chopped parsley.
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👩🍳 How To Make
Step 1. Wash the potatoes, but do not remove the skin. Organic potatoes are better. Melt butter in a pan or a Dutch oven and add the small potatoes, salt, and pepper. Toss well. Cover the pan and continue to cook on low heat until the potatoes are tender and a fork goes through them.
Note: Once in a while, shake the pan to prevent the bottom potatoes from burning.
💡 Expert Tip
If you do not like them with the skin on, the new potatoes can be rubbed with a tablespoon of coarse salt inside a kitchen towel. The skin will peel off really easily.
Step 2. Chop the dill and add it to the potatoes. Toss well to cover them.
Step 3. Serve them hot in a serving bowl and enjoy them as a side dish with your favorite meats. For a vegetarian meal, you can also skip the meat and serve it with cooked mushrooms or green beans, next to an awesome salad.
Grilled or roasted meats such as chicken, beef, pork (like this pork wrapped in bacon), ham, or even lamb work well, as do seafood dishes such as grilled salmon or cooked fish, shrimp in garlic sauce, and even lobster.
🙋♀️ Recipe Faqs:
Leftover potatoes can be transferred to an airtight container and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.
Reheat them in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. You can add a teaspoon of butter to refresh them. They will look beautiful on the dinner table.
You can freeze cooked baby potatoes, but I recommend not adding fresh dill until after thawing. To freeze: cool the potatoes completely, spread them on a baking sheet to freeze, then store them in an airtight container or freezer bag for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight and reheat in the microwave or on the stovetop, adding dill then.
No, there is no need for that. Just follow the recipe, and they will come out delicious.
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📖 Recipe
Baby Potatoes With Butter And Dill
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ pounds new or baby potatoes washed but unpeeled
- 2-3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
Instructions
- Wash the baby or new potatoes but leave them unpeeled. Use organic if possible.
- Melt the butter in a Dutch oven or large heavy-bottomed pot.
- Add the whole potatoes, salt, and pepper, and toss well.
- Cover the pot tightly and cook over low heat for 20 to 30 minutes until the potatoes are just tender when tested with a small knife.
- From time to time, shake the pot without removing the lid to prevent the bottom potatoes from burning.
- Turn off the heat and allow the potatoes to steam for another 5 minutes. Don't overcook. Toss with the dill, and serve hot.
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