Easy Grilled Baby Potatoes

The perfect grilling side dish. These delicious grilled baby potatoes are crispy and slightly charred. So simple and easy with no precooking, they will become a standard at your house.

Summer is here and along with it comes grilling season. I have lots of meat recipes. After all, we are a “meatasaurus” household. But the questions is always, what do we have with that? It is a never ending attempt to avoid the “bag-o-chips.” We do lots of veggies, some salads, but a convenient side dishes has escaped us. Until now.

I have done various methods of potatoes on the grill, but most require lots of special attention or prep. They haven’t worked well for me mostly due to cooking flow issues. They were good and simple but just didn’t fit well. This method flows with the cooking of most meat dishes on the grill.

It occurred to me, I cook cut up red potatoes in the oven for about 30 minutes and get a nice crispy outside. I should be able to do that on a grill. I did my usual research. No help this time. They all want to cook the potatoes ( usually boil them) before grilling. No, no, no. Just grill them. As Thoreau said, “Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

My Rating

I do love a good side dish. This one we will do over and over.

Notes on Grill Baby Potatoes

First, let’s talk type of potatoes. While this would work with almost any potato, I prefer something small with a thinner skin. These come with various names, new potatoes, baby potatoes, or in my picture they are labeled as little potatoes.

Next size. You may think they are small already, but not small enough. You are trying to get the center of the piece to cook while not burning the outside all in a reasonable time. I want the size to be no more than 3/8 inch of any part of the potato to the outside of the piece. It might be round; it might be a disk, and more commonly a half of a circle. If this distance is more, the center may not get done.

Next the grill temperature. I suggest 450-500 degrees. Add in a nice stir occasionally, and you will be done in about 30 minutes. This is the same temperature and approximate cooking time for a pork tenderloin or many chicken recipes. So there is a method to my madness.

Final note. A done baked potato is about 210 degrees internal temperature.  You want that creamy inside with no crunch. To me, 210 is the target temperature but 205 is the minimum and less than 200 is just not acceptable.

Preheat grill to 450 degrees surface temperature. 500 degrees max. On my grill that is about medium. On lesser grills, it would be about 75%.

Wash your potatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds) and cut into bite size pieces with no more than 3/8 inch of any part of the piece to an outside surface.

Mix with 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder. Place in a grill pan and close lid.

Stir every 5-7 minutes until internal temperature of 210 degrees. Right at 30 minutes for me.

Grilled Baby Potatoes

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The perfect grilling side dish. These delicious grilled baby potatoes are crispy and slightly charred. So simple and easy with no precooking.

• CourseVegetable
• CuisineAmerican

Servings	Prep Time
4	5 minutes

Cook Time

30 minutes

Servings Prep Time 4 5 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Grilled Baby Potatoes Votes: 2 Rating: 5 You: Rate this recipe! Print Recipe The perfect grilling side dish. These delicious grilled baby potatoes are crispy and slightly charred. So simple and easy with no precooking. CourseVegetable CuisineAmerican Servings Prep Time 4 5 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Servings Prep Time 4 5 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds baby potatoes
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder granular preferred

Servings:

Units:MetricUS Imperial

Instructions

1. Preheat grill to 450 degrees surface temperature. 500 degrees max. On my grill that is about medium. On lesser grills, it would be about 75%.
2. Wash your potatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds) and cut into bite size pieces with no more than 3/8 inch of any part of the piece to an outside surface.
3. Mix with 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder. Place in a grill pan and close lid.
4. Stir every 5-7 minutes until internal temperature of 210 degrees. Right at 30 minutes for me.

Recipe Notes

An easy recipe to scale up or down.

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All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.

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Last Updated

May 30, 2017