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Crispy Leaf Potatoes - the BEST roasted potatoes you'll ever make! Crazy delicious sliced potatoes that taste like layers of potato chips. Make this for holidays or every day!!
Table of Contents
- What Are Leaf Potatoes
- The Best Roasted Potatoes For Holidays Or Every Day
- How Do You Make Crispy Roasted Potatoes
- Butter Or Duck Fat For Roasted Potatoes
- Layers Upon Layers Of Crispy Goodness!
- Mandoline Slicer
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What To Serve With Crispy Leaf Potatoes
- Other Roasted Potato Recipes You Might Like
- Crispy Leaf Potatoes Recipe
What Are Leaf Potatoes
Leaf potatoes are roasted potatoes by Australian celebrity chef Donna Hay.
The potatoes are sliced thinly and they are arranged piece by piece in a baking sheet. As the potatoes are paper thin, and they do look like leaves, hence the name leaf potatoes.
The Best Roasted Potatoes For Holidays Or Every Day
You haven’t tried roasted potatoes until you have tried these crispy leaf potatoes. Believe me!
Imagine layers upon layers of super crispy potatoes that taste like potato chips, seasoned with rosemary, butter and salt. My mouth is watering at the very thought.
The texture is unlike any roasted potatoes I have ever tasted. I personally think that it’s way better than hasselback potatoes, smashed potatoes or scalloped potatoes.
How Do You Make Crispy Roasted Potatoes
I am going to show you the tips and techniques:
- Use a Mandoline Slicer to slice the potatoes to thin pieces. Click here to buy.
- Dab off the moisture on the potato slices with paper towels.
- Arrange the sliced potatoes upright in a baking pan and bake at 400F.
Butter Or Duck Fat For Roasted Potatoes
The original recipe by Donna Hay calls for duck fat. Any foodies who have tried duck fat with roasted potatoes will never go back to butter again.
For this recipe, I used butter, but go ahead and use duck fat if you like. Duck fat is supposed to be “healthier” as it has higher percentage of monounsaturated fat, at 55% while butter has only 26%.
Layers Upon Layers Of Crispy Goodness!
Crispy leaf potatoes is an amazing side dish any time of the year. They are perfect for special occasions such as Thanksgiving or Christmas.
The reason is simple: they are very easy to make, with simple ingredients, but the presentation has a wow factor and the taste and texture are absolutely delightful.
Try this recipe, and use duck fat, if you will. Enjoy!
You can also turn this recipe into sweet potatoes, check out this Crispy Baked Sweet Potatoes recipe.
Mandoline Slicer
I recommend the following OXO Good Grips Adjustable Handheld Mandoline Slicer. It’s available on Amazon for $14.99.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 559 calories per serving.
What To Serve With Crispy Leaf Potatoes
For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Other Roasted Potato Recipes You Might Like
- Italian Roasted Potatoes
- Crispy Roasted Potatoes
- Lemon Herb Roasted Potatoes
- Parmesan Roasted Potatoes
Crispy Leaf Potatoes
Ingredients
- 9 lbs. (4kg) potatoes, peeled, yukon gold or russet
- 12 oz. (350g) melted unsalted butter , or 11 oz. (311g) duck fat
- 3 teaspoons Maldon sea salt flakes, preferred or salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 4 teaspoons chopped rosemary or oregano
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F (207°C).
- Using a Mandoline Slicer, thinly slice the peeled potatoes length ways. Pat dry the potatoes with paper towels.
- Place the sliced potatoes in a large bowl. Using your hands, toss with butter (or duck fat), 2 teaspoons salt, black pepper and about 2 teaspoons of chopped rosemary until fully coated.
- Carefully place the potatoes upright, from left to right, in a baking tray (I used a 8×11" (20x28cm) baking tray) until the tray is full. Do not pack in the potatoes too tightly, as this impacts the crispiness.
- Bake for an hour, or until the potatoes are golden and crispy. Garnish with the remaining salt and the rosemary or oregano. Serve immediately.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I made this tonight for company. I used about 3 lbs of potatoes so had to guess a little on measurements. I sliced them very then and had a soppy mess that wouldn’t stand up well in the pan, but I just took them and smooshed them up as best I could, baked over an hour. They didn’t look exactly like your but close enough.
Any way, they were OUT of this WORLD!!! So delicious and crispy edges and there were none left.
They are clearly very forgiving and this recipe is a keeper.
THANK YOU!! You recipes are always among my favorites.
Hi Patti, thanks so much for your sweet comment. Yes, crispy leaf potatoes are bomb. Make it for the holidays! :)
Your potatoes look like Yukon Gold potatoes. Is this what you used, or just the regular russets?
Looks delicious!
You can use Yukon Gold or Russets.
I made the potatoes today and they were fantastic!! Everyone loved them. Thanks for a great new recipe “keeper”.
Hi Cindy, that’s awesome, so happy that you tried this crispy leaf potatoes recipe, you will need it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year and every day!!! Use duck fat next. ;)
Yea Lance! Geezzzz!
Thanks for this recipe, I appreciate the 9#. We have large Family Gatherings plus Church Dinners. Potatoes are always a Main side dish and this can be varied as well! Yay!
Awesome glad you like this crispy leaf potatoes recipe.
Lance – this is a recipe from Donna Hay cookbook. The recipe calls for 9 lbs of potatoes, I was just following the recipe. If you have 3 or 4 people in the house, just cut the recipe into half. I made this recipe specially for the upcoming Thanksgiving and holidays, when there is a bigger crowd during holidays. There is no need to be rude and crude in your comment as I do not appreciate it.
Lance, It does not take a brain surgeon to adjust recipe amounts to # people ! and show a little more class & respect in your comments.
Thanks Peter for your support.
Thank you I did end up finding it – I hadn’t scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page.
Thanks Diane, I am glad you found the recipe of this crispy leaf potatoes.
Do you mean 9 lbs. or 9 potatoes?
9 lbs!
Do you melt the butter? How do you keep potatoes from turning before you get to stacking in the tray? How does it stick to the potatoes? Is the tray shallow/buttered? Do you put something under it so it doesn’t drip butter?
Yes, the butter needs to be melted. What do you mean by the potatoes from turning? What sticks to the potatoes? Yes my tray is pretty shallow as you can see, about 1 1/2 ” high. You can grease the baking tray.
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You can put sliced potatoes in cold water to keep them from turning brown (if that’s what you mean) then you can dry them off when you are ready to start stalking them.
9 lbs of potatoes for 8 people? Over a pound of Potatoes per person? Is this right?
You can serve the dish to 10-12 people, up to you.
This looks like the PERFECT potato recipe!!!! YUM!
Yes, this leaf potatoes are absolutely amazing!!! Perfect 100.
I see that it says to put in the oven at 400 degrees. The problem is, I have gone over everything and cannot find what the approximately time is to leave it in the oven. Could you please respond to me. There are so many things in between telling us about the recipe, that I can’t seem to find the whole recipe. I would really appreciate it if you could send me the recipe together without all the extras…just the recipe please.
Hi Tammy, the recipe is at the bottom of the page, keep scrolling down.
I’ve looked at the main page 4 times now and cannot find the link to the actual recipe. I’m so disappointed because I really wanted to try this. Diane in New Brunswick, Canada
Diane, the recipe is at the bottom of post. Do you scroll down???
Bake for 1 hour at 400 :)