When it comes to potato recipes, we love them all. Here is a collection of over 40 of the Best Potato Side Dish recipes from our collection. Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browned potatoes, baked potatoes - we’ll gladly eat them all for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Easy Potato Side Dish Recipes For Every Occasion
With the holidays coming, I thought we could celebrate everyone's favorite side dish with a list of our favorite potato recipes.
I've included everything from basic roasted potatoes to soups, salads, hash browns and casseroles. We’ve also made sure to provide plenty of different potato varieties and cooking techniques as well as potato recipes for kids.
I also have a handful of Potato Recipe Videos you can watch and follow along, step-by-step. You can find them here.
There’s so much you can do with just a few potatoes, so let’s get cooking!
Most Popular Potato Sides
Best Baked Potato Recipe
The Best Baked Potato has perfectly crispy skin and fluffy insides using just three ingredients. Top with butter, sour cream and your favorite potato fixings for a simple, satisfying and delicious side dish.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Cheesy Potato Casserole
This easy potato casserole is a hit for the holidays and dinners with your family and friends. It's so easy to make and everyone loves it!
Total time: 40 minutes
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Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
This Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes recipe is a family favorite! It's the perfect homemade scalloped potatoes recipe for Easter, Christmas or any family dinner.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Ranch Roasted Potatoes Recipe
These Ranch Roasted Potatoes are coated in a cheesy, delicious ranch dressing mix and roasted to crispy perfection. They are a seriously simple side dish that the whole family will love.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Mashed Red Potatoes Recipe
These Mashed Red Potatoes are pure comfort food and a simple side dish. Mashed with simple ingredients like butter, sour cream, garlic, and milk, they are bursting with flavor and pair well with just about anything.
Total time: 40 minutes
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3 Cheese Twice Baked Potatoes
These 3 cheese twice baked potatoes with bacon are the ultimate twice baked potatoes. They're made with Havarti, Gruyere, and shredded cheddar cheese. These easy twice baked potatoes are creamy, delicious and loaded with flavor. These are the best twice baked potatoes.
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Sweet Potato Side Dish Recipes
The Best Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
These are the best sweet potato fries. They are crispy, chewy, sweet and spicy, basically a party in your mouth. These oven-baked sweet potato fries only take a few minutes to throw together. Also included is a recipe for a smoky and spicy sweet potato fries dipping sauce that's gonna knock your socks off. Oh baby!
Total time: 40 minutes
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Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
This Sweet Potato Casserole is rich and buttery with a sweet crunchy pecan topping. It’s a southern classic that can pass as either a side dish or dessert at your next holiday dinner.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Recipe for Sweet Potato Casserole With Marshmallows
These Sweet Potatoes with marshmallows is my favorite version of the slightly sweet classic holiday side dish. It’s filled with warmed mashed potatoes, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and topped with ooey gooey mini marshmallows.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes Recipe
These Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes are crispy on the outside, fluffy and tender on the inside and seasoned to your liking. This recipe makes for a quick and easy side dish that can be transformed into a main course with a variety of simple homemade toppings.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Chipotle and Lime
These Roasted Sweet Potatoes are crispy, chewy and a perfect balance of sweet, spicy and tangy. They are super easy, healthy and only take a few minutes to throw together before you pop them into the oven.
Total time: 55 minutes
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Roasted Potatoes Recipes
Oven Roasted Red Potatoes Recipe
This Oven Roasted Red Skin Potatoes recipe is one of the most simple and versatile side dishes that you can make. They’re crispy on the outside, soft in the middle and perfectly seasoned to go with just about anything.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Parmesan Roasted Red Potatoes Recipe
These Parmesan Roasted Red Potatoes are a simple, classic side dish that the whole family will love. They’ve got a crispy Parmesan crust, flavored with garlic, onion and Italian seasoning, and perfectly tender insides.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Rosemary and Parmesan Fingerling Potato Recipe
These oven-roasted Rosemary and Parmesan Fingerling Potatoes are the perfect side dish for anything from a casual weeknight dinner to a fancy holiday menu. They have a delicious crispy rosemary and Parmesan crust with a smooth and buttery center and are oh-so-easy to prepare.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Smashed Potatoes
This smashed potato recipe is an easy and fun smashed red potatoes recipe. This delicious side dish flavored with garlic salt, cheddar cheese, and bacon bits. It's a fun alternative to roasted
Total time: 55 minutes
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Herb Roasted Potatoes Recipe
These Herb Roasted Potatoes are the perfect side dish for just about any meal. They are crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside and perfectly seasoned with fresh garlic, thyme and lemons. These easy roasted potatoes are soon to be a family dinner staple.
Total time: 1 hour
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Mashed Potato Recipes
Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These simple Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes with cream cheese are fluffy, buttery and can be made up to 3 days in advance. They make the perfect holiday side dish that can be easily reheated in a variety of different ways.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Gruyere Mashed Potatoes
These Gruyere Mashed Potatoes are a creamy mashed potatoes recipe loaded with flavor. I'll give you step-by-step instructions on how to get the best-mashed potatoes ever. The entire family will love this easy potato recipe.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Crockpot Mashed Potatoes
These Crockpot Mashed Potatoes are 100% made in the crockpot This is a step-by-step guide to cook your slow cooker mashed potatoes.
Total time: 4 hours 20 minutes
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe
These Mashed Sweet Potatoes make a wonderfully delicious alternative to regular mashed potatoes. We blend perfectly cooked sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and half and half in order to create the most flavorful sweet potato side dish to go along with just about anything.
Total time: 40 minutes
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Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
This Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes recipe makes the perfect side dish to go along with just about anything. They are buttery, garlicky, cheesy and absolutely delicious, with or without gravy.
Total time: 40 minutes
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Baked Potato Side Dish Recipes
Loaded Baked Potato Skins Recipe
These Loaded Baked Potato Skins are a classic appetizer that is perfect for game day, parties or your next movie night. They’re crispy and fully loaded with just a hint of garlic, plenty of cheese, tasty bacon bits and finished with chopped green onions.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Air Fryer Baked Potatoes Recipe
These Air Fryer Baked Potatoes have the most fluffy, tender insides with perfectly crispy skin. Taking only a fraction of the time that an oven would, and giving the most delicious results, these little beauties have our vote for the best baked potato!
Total time: 50 minutes
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Loaded Hasselback Potato Recipe
These Hasselback Potatoes are are deliciously crispy on the outside, perfectly tender on the inside, and beautiful to look at. You would never guess just how incredibly simple they are to prepare! Load these babies up with everything from melty cheese to crispy bacon or cheesy broccoli.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Twice Baked Potato Casserole Recipe
This Twice Baked Potato Casserole is what cheesy potato dreams are made of. It’s super simple to make and loaded with family favorites like mashed potatoes, sour cream, cheddar cheese and bacon.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Scalloped Potatoes Recipes
Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
This Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes recipe is a family favorite! It's the perfect homemade scalloped potatoes recipe for Easter, Christmas or any family dinner.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Gruyere Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These Gruyere Scalloped Potatoes are the perfect side dish for any occasion. They're made with thinly sliced Yukon Gold potatoes covered in a rich and nutty Gruyere cheese sauce. It's a deliciously creamy and cheesy potato recipe the whole family will love.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Scalloped Potatoes with Bacon
These Bacon and Cheese Scalloped Potatoes are rich and decadent and perfect for your holiday meal or Sunday dinner. They're made with thinly sliced potatoes, crispy bacon and have a creamy cheese sauce. These scalloped potatoes with cheese are soon to be your family's favorite potato recipe.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Crockpot Scalloped Potatoes
This Crockpot Scalloped Potatoes recipe couldn't be easier. It's an au gratin potatoes crockpot recipe made with russet potatoes, a homemade cream sauce, ans fresh herbs. It's perfect for a family dinner, holidy meal or a great leftover ham recipe.
Total time: 4 hours 10 minutes
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Slow Cooker Ham and Cheese Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These Slow Cooker Ham and Cheese Scalloped Potatoes are creamy, cheesy and packed full of flavor. They are made with thinly sliced potatoes cooked low and slow until perfectly tender alongside ham, cheese, fresh thyme and simple seasoning.
Total time: 5 hours 10 minutes
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Homemade Au Gratin Potatoes Recipe
These creamy Au Gratin Potatoes are an easy, cheesy side dish that is impossible to resist. Thinly sliced potatoes are cooked to melt-in-your-mouth perfection in a rich cheddar cheese cream sauce.
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Potato Soup Recipes
Loaded Baked Potato Soup Recipe
This Loaded Baked Potato Soup Recipe is creamy and delicious. It’s made with potatoes, chicken broth for lots of flavors and a dose of heavy cream. You can add bacon, sliced green onions, and shredded cheddar to turn this into the most amazing Loaded potato soup recipe.
Total time: 35 minutes
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Creamy Broccoli Potato Cheese Soup Recipe
This Creamy Creamy Broccoli Potato Cheese Soup Recipe is made with chunks of potato, lots of fresh broccoli, and has so much flavor! This soup recipe is quick and easy and has everything you love in a delicious soup.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Broccoli Potato Soup
This homemade Broccoli Potato Soup Recipe is an easy meal that can be ready in just 30-40 minutes. It is so packed with delicious creamy, cheesy flavor that your kids won’t even realize how many vegetables they are eating. Serve this soup with your favorite dinner rolls and butter, or in bread bowls.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Tuscan Soup Recipe
This hearty Tuscan Soup is full of Italian sausage, potatoes, carrots and spinach all swimming in a rich and creamy chicken broth.
Total time: 30 minutes
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Favorite Potato Breakfast Recipes
Smothered Hash Brown Recipe
These Loaded Hash Browns are covered in cheese and loaded with veggies, ham and bacon. They take just a few minutes to whip up and are sure to become your new breakfast favorite.
Total time: 35 minutes
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Recipe: Ham and Cheese Potato Crust Quiche
This Potato Crust Quiche, made with a base of thinly sliced potatoes, is simple, delicious, packed with protein and naturally gluten-free. It’s loaded with ham, bacon bits, shredded cheese and a velvety smooth custard that goes perfectly with its yummy, beautiful potato crust.
Total time: 1 hour 20 minutes
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Chili Spiced Sweet Potato Chunks
Chili-spiced sweet potato chunks are one of those sweet potato recipes you need to have on hand. It's a healthy oven roasted sweet potato recipe, a perfect side dish to serve with just about any protein.
Total time: 55 minutes
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Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole
This sweet potato casserole is a delicious egg and cheese casserole. If you love a little sweet potato, spicy pepper jack, and a hint of dijon, this is the breakfast casserole for you!
Total time: 45 minutes
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Garlic Herb Cheesy Potato Recipe
These Garlic Herb Cheesy Potatoes are a simple side dish that tastes great with just about anything. They are tossed in Italian herbs and garlic, oven-roasted, smothered in delicious cheesy goodness and then topped off with bacon bits and green onions.
Total time: 1 hour
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More Potato Recipes
Old Fashioned German Potato Salad Recipe
Your family is going to love this warm German Potato Salad, made with bacon, three kinds of grilled potatoes and a killer dijon mustard vinaigrette dressing. It's the best no-mayo potato salad recipe for BBQs, potlucks and family dinners at home.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes Recipe
This slow cooker cheesy hash brown potatoes recipe is an easy crockpot potatoes recipe. These slow cooker potatoes are a dump and go recipe and can be made ahead of time and then ready when you are.
Total time: 3 hours 10 minutes
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Crispy Potato Bites Recipe
These Crispy Potato Bites are a simple appetizer to make for parties, game day or even an after school snack. They are fully loaded, made with thin slices of oven baked potatoes topped with melted cheese, ranch dressing dip, homemade bacon bits and green onions.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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