Oven Baked Parmesan Roasted Potatoes
Crisp cheesy crusted potatoes with creamy soft centers topped with bacon.
Ingredients
- 4 strips bacon, crumbled
- 3 lbs small Yukon gold and/or red potatoes
- ¼ cup olive oil
- salt & pepper
- 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
- ¼ cup fresh Parsley, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Place bacon strips on a cooking rack or directly on a large cooking sheet lined with foil.
- Bake bacon strips for 20-25 minutes, until crisp. Remove from oven.
- While bacon is cooking, prep potatoes. Wash potatoes and cut them in half.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Boil potatoes for 5-8 minutes until they begin to soften.
- Drain potatoes.
- In a large bowl combine olive oil, Parmesan cheese, minced garlic, salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning.
- Add the parboiled potatoes to the bowl and toss to coat them.
- Spread potatoes out in a single layer on a large cooking sheet, cut sides down.
- Bake potatoes for 15 minutes.
- Turn potatoes over, cut side up.
- Return to oven and bake potatoes for another 15 minutes or until potatotes are starting to crisp up.
- Turn oven temperature to broil and continue to cook potatoes for another 2-4 minutes, until golden brown.
- When potatoes are done remove them from the oven and allow them to rest on the cooking sheet for 5 minutes.
- To serve, toss potatoes with chopped parsley and bacon bits.