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Smashed potatoes with rosemary and garlic

Name: Smashed potatoes with rosemary and garlic
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 8 Potatoes; 30 g Butter; 2 tsp Dried rosemary; 4 Garlic cloves; 40 ml Olive oil; to taste Salt

Boiled potatoes gently smashed and oven-roasted with olive oil, butter, garlic, and rosemary. Serve as a side dish or dinner for 4.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 hr 5 min
Temperature: 180–200 °C (350–400 °F)
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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These oven-roasted smashed potatoes with rosemary and garlic are boiled whole, cooled, gently flattened with a spoon, and finished in the oven. Each potato should split but not fall apart. They are drizzled with olive oil, butter, garlic, and dried rosemary and roasted at 180–200 °C (350–400 °F). The original recipe calls for new potatoes, but other thin-skinned potatoes work too. This recipe serves four as a side dish or a dinner on its own.

Ingredients

4 servings

Potatoes 8
Butter 30 g
Dried rosemary 2 tsp
Garlic cloves 4
Olive oil 40 ml
Salt to taste

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Instructions

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Tip: Use new potatoes, as recommended in the original recipe, or any thin-skinned potatoes.
Wash the potatoes thoroughly and boil until tender. Set aside and let cool.
For the most important step, gently press each potato with a spoon so it splits but does not fall apart.
Drizzle olive oil over the bottom of a baking pan. Scatter the chopped garlic evenly over the pan.
Arrange the potatoes in the pan, season with salt, preferably sea salt, and sprinkle with rosemary. If fresh rosemary is unavailable, use dried.
Cut the butter into cubes and place 1–2 cubes on each potato. Drizzle with more olive oil as needed.
Preheat the oven to 180–200 °C (350–400 °F) and roast the potatoes until golden brown. Drizzle with the aromatic oil at the end, if desired.
Skip other seasonings, such as paprika or black pepper; the rosemary and garlic give the potatoes plenty of flavor. Tip: Sprinkle the finished dish with green onions before serving, if desired.

Tip: The bottom of a glass flattens the potatoes more evenly than a spoon and helps keep them from falling apart. The more cracks in the surface, the more crispy edges will form in the oven.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 376 kcal
Protein: 6.6 g
Carbohydrates: 55 g
of which sugars: 2.5 g
Fat: 16 g
of which saturates: 5.2 g
Fiber: 6.7 g
Salt: 0.5 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Roztlačené zemiaky z rúry s rozmarínom a cesnakom