Smashed Potatoes With Thai-Style Chile and Herb Sauce

This is my death row meal. Only change was to up the garlic and chilli. Spent a long time thinking about what to serve it with. Ended up eating it unaccompanied and regret nothing.

When I need to precook potatoes, I microwave them. No loss of nutrients from boiling.

Soy sauce will work in a pinch. To get closer to the flavor profile of fish sauce, use one part soy, and one part rice vinegar. That's what I use because I'm vegetarian.

I normally hate potatoes because I find the insides bland and the texture unpleasant. These are without a doubt the BEST potatoes I’ve ever had.

I’ve made this a few times now and I love everything about it. I’ve come to the realization that rather than flipping the potatoes, it would be easier to brush olive oil on the top to get both sides. You don’t have to worry about breaking them.

The amount of nutrients lost by boiling potatoes is negligible. Other vegetables do lose a significant amount of nutrients when boiled, but not potatoes.

I've made this several times as written and it's delicious. Today I was looking for a potato side to go with a roast chicken with rosemary, parmesan, and lemon, so I decided to use this technique but shift the flavor profile. I used the same proportions of worcestershire for fish sauce, red wine vinegar for rice wine vinegar, lemon for lime, a dash of aminos for soy, garlic and red pepper flakes as written, and honey for sugar. For herbs I did scallion, parsley, and some spicy arugula. It worked

This was so good and easy to make, but it ended up being a tad more acidic than I would have liked, so I might bump up the soy sauce and lime and down the vinegar next time I make it

You can save a bit of effort by simply coating the potatoes in olive oil while they're still in the pot (after they've cooled a bit). Then smash them when you get them in the pan.

I have never made this dish, but I would say a simple white fish like halibut would be excellent, grilled, pan fried or baked. Given the intense flavors, these potatoes would really jazz up plain farm-raised tilapia sauteed in olive oil and butter. Also, simple chicken thighs basted on the grill with herbs in a little oil.

Delicious new way to prepare potatoes! Next time will add plantains at the roasting step, smash half way through, yum! NOTE: Boiling in salt water adds pleasant saltiness to the potatoes during the cooking process. If you do boil, skip or go easy with the salt in steps 4 and 5! I added 1/4 of the salt in step 4 and skipped salt in step 5 and they were still TOO SALTY for my taste from the soy and fish sauce. This could be avoided by microwaving instead of boiling as one reviewer suggested.