This post is sponsored by Side Delights® through Kitchen PLAY. As always, all opinions and photos are my own.
Fiesta Potato Smashers are quick, easy, and satisfying, with flavors the whole family will love. This is sure to be your new favorite recipe!
One of the foods that my husband, two teenagers, and I can ALL agree that we love is potatoes.
Thank goodness for the amazing potato! We can whip up easy and tasty breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks with these beautiful, incredible spuds. When I’m in a pinch and need to make a quick family meal, it’s often potatoes to the rescue!
Fiesta Potato Smashers
Recently, I was searching the Side Delights website for a family-friendly recipe, and came across one that can be used either as a main dish or a side dish. With a combo of potatoes, bell peppers, and a dairy-free option, it was the mouthwatering Fiesta Potato Smashers recipe for the win!
This recipe checks off so many boxes for me when looking for a recipe to feed my family on a busy night:
- it doesn’t have many ingredients (less than five!)
- the ingredients are items I usually already have on hand
- the recipe requires little prep time and short cooking time
- it is a recipe that my whole family will love.
Enter to Win
If you love potatoes like I do (or if anyone in your household does), you’re gonna love this giveaway! Enter to win a sample box of Side Delights fresh potatoes AND an Instant Pot. That’s right: an Instant Pot! If you already have one, you know that you could use two (I know several people who use two regularly!). You can nter to win using the form below, now through August 20, 2018. Please be sure to read the full details in the form.
Best of luck to all who enter this contest!
Fiesta Potato Smashers Recipe
Fiesta Potato Smashers
Ingredients
- 5 small Yellow potatoes
- 5 small Red potatoes
- 1 pint sweet mini peppers (red, orange and yellow)
- 8 sprigs cilantro, picked from stems and chopped
- cooking spray or olive oil
- salt, pepper, chili powder
Instructions
- Place whole potatoes (do not poke) into microwave-safe covered dish. Microwave on HIGH for 3 to 4 minutes.
- While potatoes are cooking, cut mini peppers into small 1/4-inch slices. Spray a nonstick pan with cooking spray and heat to medium. Add peppers and sauté until they become slightly soft and start to brown. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Remove potatoes from microwave and, using a layer of paper towels covering each potato, smash them on a cutting board until 1 3/4-inch thick. Helpful tip: Use the side of a coffee cup or flat cooking utensil to smash the potatoes.
- Spray sauté pan with cooking spray or add 2 tbsp olive oil to a pan, heat on high, and add smashed potatoes in a single layer. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes until potatoes start to brown on both sides.
- On a plate, place potatoes and layer with sour cream or yogurt (optional), peppers and cilantro. Dust with salt, chili powder and pepper to taste. Serve warm.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Such a colorful and delicious dish! Nettie
Thanks, Nettie! :)
Beautiful shots! So bright and festive!
Thanks so much, Lori!
These look delicious! Simple and flavorful…winning! I could eat potatoes every day!
Same! They’re my favorite! :)
What a quick and easy side dish recipe! Love that it has minimal ingredients and that it is so colorful!
Minimal ingredients are the way to go for busy nights! Thanks, Erin! :)
What a fun way to add a little color and spice to your potatoes!
Thanks, Jenni! :)
Sweet potatoes will give you that comfort food, starchy quality that you crave without the carbohydrate overload that regular potatoes will. Substitute them for fries or mashed potatoes. Serve with butter and small amounts of sugar. They are also an anti-inflammatory food rather than an inflammation producing food like regular potatoes are.
I love sweet potatoes as well! :)
Those mini sweet peppers are so cute and I always want to buy them but don’t really have a use for them — this is perfect.
Now you do! Thanks, Maritha! :)
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I love that it has so few ingredients and requires a short prep time. Perfect for busy individuals and families alike. I’m totally down to give this a try!
I’m glad you enjoyed the post! Thanks, Jay! :)
Duh! Potatoes are my staple food. Love this idea and will try it for sure! Beautiful potato pics too!
Same! Thanks, Breona!
This looks like a great recipe to satisfy the potato lovers in my life while getting them to eat vibrant summer veggies as well!
Agreed! Who doesn’t love potatoes? :)
You can’t go wrong with a good potato recipe – and this sounds delish!
Right?! Thanks, Lisa! :)
I love how easy-looking and colorful this dish is!
Thanks Caroline! It is super simple!
These look so tasty and healthy! I love the color variety in the finished dish.
Thank you, Danielle! :)
This looks so good and easy. My family also loves potatoes and this looks like a fun one that the kids can help with too (I can see mine loving smashing the potatoes ;).
For sure! Cooking with the kiddos is always so much fun!
This is such a quick and easy dish! Love the pop of color from the peppers and potatoes!
Thank you, Demeter! I love making colorful dishes! :)
Love how you made potatoes so colorful and tasty!
Thanks so much, Alina! :)