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Have you tried Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes yet? They’ve saved many a dinner for me, when I didn’t know what else I was going to put on the plate to fill up hungry teenagers.
They’re small, so they cook fast (good for weeknight dinners), they do well baked, roasted, boiled, steamed, sautéed or mashed. They have a naturally creamy, buttery quality, which is always good, AND they’re grown in the fertile Snake River Plain region of Southern Idaho. As we know by now, Idaho spuds are the best!
Their versatility makes them a perfect partner for fish, fowl or meat, as well as the centerpiece of vegetarian and vegan options.
They’re the worthy subject of a brand new cookbook, “DYPs: The Perfect Everyday Potato Cookbook,” by Sharon Hernandez and Chef Ida Rodriguez (World Variety Produce, Inc. $19.99).
A cookbook launch party at Melissa’s Produce showed us just how versatile these babies are. Behold, what we tasted from the book:
Summertime Stuffed DYPs
Raquel’s Chile Lime DYPs
Latkes, of course!
DYP, Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms
And did you know potatoes can also star in desserts?
Dancing Cheesecake
Chocolate DYP Cake
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches
And DYP Ponuts (potato donuts)
Plus, I won a gift basket while I was there! My kids pounced on that delicious fruit when I got back.
Inspired by that, when I got home, I took advantage of the fact that the skin on DYPs is soft so you don’t peel them before cooking, and decided to pair them with another favorite new ingredient of mine – Kerrygold Garlic & Herb Butter. This already has chives, parsley, garlic, salt, dill, pepper and paprika in the Irish butter, and together, these spuds and butter are two things that just sounded like the best rustic mashed potatoes I could imagine.
They were!
A garlic herb butter bath cooks the tiny potatoes in the slow cooker, and then mashes into them for a rustic, comforting side dish to accompany fish, fowl or meat.
Ingredients
- 1 (1.5-pound) bag Melissa’s Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes
- 1 (3.5-ounce) stick Kerrygold Garlic & Herb Butter
Directions
- Wash potatoes and put them in the crock of the slow cooker. Unwrap butter and put that in as well, along with 1/3 cup water. Turn on high, put the lid on, and walk away.
- Cook for 4 hours on high, or 8 hours on low (depending on your timing needs).
- Test potatoes for doneness by sticking a toothpick or fork tine in. If done, use a potato masher to mash roughly, incorporating the melted butter as you go.
- Serves 4-6.
Notes
Recipe source: Dorothy Reinhold | Shockingly Delicious
Disclosure: Melissa’s Produce sent the book for review and the potatoes for recipe development. Kerrygold sent the butter for recipe development.
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Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes are completely new to me! Thanks for all the great ways to use them, but I’m starting with your mashed potatoes!
Susan/Wimpy,
Once you get some and try them, you will see they are so easy to toss into nearly anything! Spuds all the time!
These potatoes look fabulous and I have never thought to cook them in the slow cooker. Thank you for this recipe.
Michelle,
Spuds are great in the slow cooker!
I haven’t tried these potatoes yet…but I plan to soon
Food Hunter,
I predict you will love them!
Looks amazing, and so easy! Perfect for the upcoming holidays!
Laura,
Exactly right!
The word for these potatoes is… awesomeness!!! Love the garlic butter in there… just pure comfort!
Kim,
That garlic-herb butter is so totally amazing…it’s something you hoard for only your very best bread. Or is that just me?
Oh wow, these look delicious and so easy! Thanks for sharing!
Emily,
It doesn’t get much easier, eh?
Crazy! GREG
Crazy like a fox, Greg.
Those look fantastic – love everything crock pot, so these look extra perfect to me. 🙂
Rebekah,
If you are a Crock-Pot queen, you MUST make these!
Awesome! Only 2 ingredients and brings out so much flavors into one dish. That’s too cool and the gift basket…no doubt that your kids went straight to that. 🙂
Linda,
They assumed it was THEIR gift basket, of course. As it should be. 🙂
The problem is that I cannot seem to find that butter. Ugh.
Julie,
I don’t know where you live, but I have seen it at Ralphs (Kroger), Gelson’s and Bristol Farms in Southern California. Another idea: use that amount of butter and throw in, say, 2 minced garlic cloves and some dried herbs. Sorta make your own, right?
Found it at Bristol Farms Dorothy – thanks. Very good!
Julie,
GREAT!
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