I made 6 of Ina Garten’s favorite potato recipes. These are all great party foods, but there’s one I can’t live without.

• Ina Garten has many delicious potato recipes and I’ve made six so far.

• In honor of the holiday season, I decided to rank them.

• Garten’s Raised Mashed Potatoes are super easy and my family loves her Potato Gratin.

Whether you like your potatoes mashed, roasted or spicy, Ina Garten has a recipe for every taste and preference.

I made Garten’s most popular potato recipes and decided to rank my favorites.

These recipes are fantastic all year round, but if you’re looking for a great side dish for the holidays, I’ve got you covered.

Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes are in sixth place.

Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes couldn’t be easier to make. All you need are small red and white skinned potatoes, fresh rosemary leaves, garlic and olive oil.

And after mixing all the ingredients, you just throw the potatoes in the oven for an hour.

Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes are a great side dish when you’re craving something classic.

Just because they’re in sixth place doesn’t mean Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes aren’t delicious—the competition is just as fierce when it comes to “Barefoot Contessa” potato dishes .

The potatoes develop a beautiful golden color in the oven and the touch of rosemary makes for a pretty Instagram photo. Plus, this dish makes your kitchen smell amazing.

Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes are also deliciously crispy, with a soft, creamy center. Both my parents were big fans of this dish and loved that it was a lighter alternative to mashed potatoes or a gratin.

Get the full recipe for Ina Garten’s Rosemary Roasted Potatoes here.

In fifth place are Garten’s Parmesan Smashed Potatoes.

Garten loves putting a new spin on a classic dish, and her Parmesan Smashed Potatoes are no different. His recipe involves mashing the potatoes with an electric mixer, a time-saving technique. It contains unpeeled red potatoes, half and half, sour cream, butter and freshly grated Parmesan.

“The key to mashed potatoes is what you add to them to give them a delicious flavor,” Garten told Al Roker during a demonstration of the dish on his podcast, “Cooking Up a Storm with Al Roker “, in November 2021. “Two things that people What is really missing, in almost all recipes, is salt It needs a lot of salt to give it flavor.

Garten’s Parmesan Smashed Potatoes are bursting with flavor.

I love the texture of these thick, creamy potatoes, and the salty tang of the Parmesan pairs really well with the subtly sweet red potatoes. I made these for the first time at a Friendsgiving, and they were a huge hit with my boyfriend and friends.

“The mashed potatoes were deliciously salty and not overcooked,” my boyfriend said. “They still had a bit of texture – it wasn’t just like a bowl of soup.”

“The best mashed potatoes I’ve had!” » added our friend Kayla. “So creamy and thick.”

Get the full recipe for Ina Garten’s Parmesan Smashed Potatoes.

Fourth place belongs to Garten’s store-bought high-grade mashed potatoes.

I know what you’re thinking: how can store-bought mashed potatoes be so high on this list?

But if anyone can elevate anything from the supermarket, it’s the Barefoot Contessa.

Garten developed this recipe, a version of her Parmesan Smashed Potatoes, to The New York Times in 2022 after saying she was exhausted from cooking.

“Mashed potatoes are an essential Thanksgiving side dish, but they can be time consuming,” she wrote. “Instead of starting with raw potatoes, then peeling, cutting and boiling them, start with these prepared potatoes, and no one will know that you didn’t make the dish from zero.”

Garten’s recipe includes a package of refrigerated mashed potatoes, along with butter, sour cream and freshly grated Parmesan. All you have to do is heat the refrigerated potatoes over a pot of simmering water, then add the additional ingredients.

Garten’s Store-Bought Raised Mashed Potatoes taste delicious and require virtually no work or dishing.

Garten’s elevated mashed potatoes were super creamy, with the parmesan infusing each bite with a lovely richness. I made these for my parents when I was home for Thanksgiving and they couldn’t tell the mashed potatoes were store bought.

What’s really great about this recipe is how quick it is. You can easily make this mashed potatoes in less than 20 minutes and have a side dish that everyone will love.

Get the full recipe for Ina Garten’s Store-Bought Raised Mashed Potatoes here.

Garten’s hash browns round out the top three.

Garten uses diced potatoes instead of shredded potatoes for her hash browns, and Jeffrey — her husband of 56 years – is a big fan.

“When my husband tried them, he wanted to know if he could eat them for dinner!” Garten writes. “Hey, why not? Whatever makes him happy suits me just fine.”

Garten’s hash browns feature boiling potatoes, chopped yellow onions, butter, green onions and fresh flat-leaf parsley.

I would happily eat Garten’s hash browns for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Garten’s hash browns were a huge hit when I made them for brunch with my boyfriend and our friends.

The potatoes have a deliciously crisp exterior that gives way to a soft, creamy middle, and the parsley and green onions add even more flavor. A friend loved them so much he said he could have eaten the whole jar.

I served the hash browns with Garten’s sweet banana pancakes (also very delicious), but I think they would also pair well with chicken, turkey, or any other holiday centerpiece.

Get the full recipe for Garten’s hash browns here.

Coming in second place are the English roast potatoes that Garten learned from Emily Blunt.

Emily Blunt’s English Roast Potatoes were so successful that the “Barefoot Contessa” website temporarily crashed when Garten shared the recipe in May 2020.

Blunt taught Garten how to make her family’s special recipe for roasted potatoes in a 2018 episode of “Barefoot Contessa.” The simple dish requires just two main ingredients – Yukon Gold potatoes and parsley – and contains some helpful cooking tips.

After parboiling the potatoes, Blunt shakes them in the pan to help roughen the edges.

“If you scrape the edges, once you roast them, it just gives a really nice crisp, sort of crispiness,” Blunt explained to Garten during the episode.

Blunt also lets the potatoes dry for 15 minutes before baking them, which she says creates “such a fantastic crust on the outside.”

Blunt’s English Roast Potatoes are beautiful and delicious.

I will always love my Dad’s recipe for Greek roasted potatoes especially, but these English roast potatoes are a close second.

Blunt’s two quick tips really pay off in terms of texture. There is such a satisfying crunch to the potato crust, which is deliciously soft and creamy in the middle.

These potatoes go great with just about anything, but you’ll definitely have lots of happy guests if you make them for the holidays.

Get the full recipe for Emily Blunt’s English Roast Potatoes here.

Garten’s potato and fennel gratin takes first place.

Garten’s Potato and Fennel Gratin was the first dish I cooked for my family’s holiday menu. The recipe, which appears in “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook,” includes russet potatoes, fennel, yellow onion, heavy cream and Gruyere cheese.

“I love making potato gratin and fennel gratin, so I decided to combine the two,” Garten writes in the recipe description. “If you make it in an old French gratin dish, it looks beautiful and can go from oven to table in style.”

Garten’s Potato and Fennel Gratin is one of my favorite holiday dishes.

Garten’s Potato and Fennel Gratin is simply creamy, comforting and delicious. The potatoes always come out perfectly cooked, the combination of thick cream and cheese is dreamy, and the sautéed fennel cuts through with lovely softness.

The dish couldn’t be easier to assemble, especially if you want to assign holiday cooking duty to a young chef in the family (or that cousin whose most-used app is DoorDash).

I make Garten’s Potato and Fennel Gratin every holiday season, and it’s always one of my favorite dishes at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Get the full recipe for Ina Garten’s Potato and Fennel Gratin here.

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