One factor I didn’t actually need was one other potato recipe. Or one other smashed potato recipe. Or one other crispy potato recipe. And but there I discovered myself, eagerly placing Chrissy Teigen’s crispy smashed Buffalo potatoes collectively, fortunately digging into the completed potatoes, and savoring each final chew. I like potatoes and located the glory of smashed/flattened/squashed potato recipes years in the past.
One factor that was totally different from any of the opposite potato recipes I’ve tried was cooking these potatoes on the underside of the recent oven. The one different time I’ve ever cooked something on the underside of the oven was putting a pie there, as advised by David Leite himself. I wanted to get the underside crust browned and it wasn’t working within the oven itself. Nicely, it labored with the pie and it labored with these potatoes. The potatoes got here out with a deep, golden, crispy deliciousness. It’s mentioned that we eat first with our eyes, and these tasted fantastic even earlier than placing them in our mouths.
As a substitute of pouring the sauces over the potatoes, I put the potatoes on our plates and spooned dollops of the sauces subsequent to them. That method the potatoes retained their crispness, and we may management how a lot sauce we needed for every chew. It additionally made a distinction with the leftover potatoes. They had been by no means soggy. They crisped up fantastically in our air fryer, and there was loads of leftover sauce for dipping.
Talking of the sauces, the blue cheese sauce was not blue cheese-y sufficient to our style. I added a further 1/3 cup of blue cheese, on this case Stilton, (hey it’s what we had) which was excellent.
The primary time I made these we had them with selfmade Shake Shack burgers. The second time I made them, not even every week later, we had them with St. Louis-style ribs. After which there have been the leftover, crispy items we loved simply utilizing our fingers as a car to get them into our mouths. I made a word for this recipe that claims, “Make many greater than you assume you’ll even be capable to eat.” I didn’t observe my very own recommendation the final time I made these potatoes, and kicked myself the following day once I was craving them, and we didn’t have sufficient. I hope that I’ve higher luck subsequent time.
