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These Baked Potato Wedges are golden crisp on the outside, tender, and flaky on the inside. A healthier alternative to French fries and so easy to make at home!
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Baked potato wedges are our family’s favorite version of French fries. We serve them with everything from burgers to steaks to fried chicken. They’re a bit healthier than regular fries because they’re baked to crispy perfection rather than fried in oil.
They taste so much better than bags of frozen French fries that you get at the store. They’re simple to make and add such an elegant steakhouse feel to any meal! This potato wedges recipe is so easy to make and tastes amazingly delicious!
Baked Potato Wedges Ingredients
With only four ingredients these potato wedges can be baked quickly and easily. The flavors from the seasoning and cheese give these wedges the perfect zesty bite. They are so good!
- Potatoes – Russet potatoes or Yukon gold are both great potatoes to cut into wedges. Slice and cut the potatoes into thick wedges. We don’t recommend red potatoes.
- Olive oil – Tossing the potato wedges in a bowl will help crisp the potatoes from the outside and keep the inside soft and tender. Vegetable oil also works great.
- Seasoning salt – This is a mixture of all special spices blended together in one bottle. It makes it simple and easier to sprinkle over top rather than mix several seasonings together.
- Parmesan cheese – Sprinkle over top the wedges to have it melt over top of the potatoes while they are warm.
How to Make Baked Potato Wedges
Once these cook and are fork-tender that is when you know these wedges are ready to be enjoyed. These are perfect for game day, appetizers, or a snack for after work and school. They are simple to make and come together quickly and easily in just a few steps.
- Prepare potatoes – Scrub potatoes well, and slice them into wedges. Place in a large plastic bag. Add olive oil and toss to coat.
- Baking sheet – Transfer to a foil-lined baking sheet or parchment paper sprayed with non-stick cooking spray with the skin side down.
- Add toppings – Sprinkle potatoes generously with seasoning salt and parmesan cheese.
- Bake in oven – Bake for 30-35 minutes (or until cooked through and golden brown). Do not stir while cooking.
- Serve – Enjoy ketchup, fry sauce, or ranch dressing to dip your potato wedges in.
Suggestions for Easy Potato Wedges
Follow these suggestions to make your potato wedges the very best! Use up your left over potatoes, easy to prepare without even peeling the potatoes, and finding what is best to dip the wedges in are all great ideas that need to be shared.
- Use up potatoes – this is a great recipe for using extra potatoes before they go bad. I love baked potatoes, and always have potatoes left over in that five our ten pound bag that needs to be used. It just takes a few minutes to slice them up and then I have a side dish that everyone will love!
- Don’t peel – no need to peel these potatoes. Keep the skins on and they’ll bake up nice and crispy. Very flavorful too!
- Soak in Cold Water – while cutting add the wedges to cold water in a large mixing bowl. This helps to remove excess starch. Then thoroughly pat dry with paper towels before placing them on the sheet pan. This makes the wedges more crispy.
- Dipping – Serve these crispy potato wedges with ketchup, Ranch dressing, or our delicious and easy fry sauce.
- Seasoning – I like using Johnny’s Seasoning Salt on my potatoes, but you can get as creative and use whatever you like best. Seasoning salts, Cajun seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, parsley, and pepper seasoning are all delicious.
- Air fry – Make these potato wedges in the air fryer. Place in the air fryer basket and cook at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until they are cooked through.
“These potato wedges were amazing, they were the best addition to lunch, they were the first thing gone!”
-Lily
Frequently Asked Questions
To make sure that your potato wedges are crispy, parboiling them helps ensure they are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. If you would like to skip that step, make sure that your oil is coating all of the potatoes.
Another way to crisp potato wedges, you can cook at 400 degrees in the oven and cover them with aluminum foil Remove the cover during the final minutes of baking to allow the skin to be crispy.
This is entirely up to you! We did not do that for this recipe and the wedges turned out great! Cleaning the potatoes and soaking them for that period of time benefit too.
More Tasty Ways to Use Potatoes
I wouldn’t be a true Idaho resident if I didn’t take this opportunity to share some of my favorite potato recipes. Try them with burgers, chicken, steaks, and just about anything!
How to Make Baked Potato Wedges
Baked Potato Wedges
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Ingredients
- 5 small potatoes
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- Johnny’s Seasoning Salt or any kind of seasoning salt
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Scrub potatoes well, slice into wedges
- Place in a large plastic bag. Add olive oil and toss to coat.
- Transfer to a foil-lined baking sheet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray with the skin side down.
- Sprinkle potatoes generously with seasoning salt and parmesan cheese.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes (or until cooked through and golden brown). Do not stir while cooking.
- Serve with ketchup, fry sauce, or ranch dressing.
It was very good, I doubled the batch and didn’t measure the olive oil so they weren’t as crispy, but still delicious!
These look so delicious! I can’t wait to give this try! My family is going to love this!
Perfect potatoes! Great for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!!
These potato wedges were amazing, they were the best addition to lunch, they were the first thing gone!
I tried them and love them thank you very much was looking for a recipe for wedges it was very good
Make sure you spray the pan first…. i assumed the olive oil would keep them from sticking and i assumed wrong!
If you arrange them so the potato skin side is touching the pan, they won’t stick.
I think I'm going to make these with the winger's chicken fingers recipe you have.. Man. I should just have you plan my dinners every night! SO much easier!
Wow, this looks very good.This will definately attract children.