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Mini Salt Crusted Baked Potatoes

Baking these mini potatoes in a salt crust and then serving them with a luscious flavoured sour cream and bacon bits makes these not only a fabulous appetizer nibble, but also your new favourite side dish!
Course Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine North American
Keyword baby potatoes, bacon, mini potatoes, salt, sour cream
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 12-16 mini or baby Yukon Gold or yellow fleshed potatoes, See Notes
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1- 1 1/2 cups coarse salt, see Notes
  • rosemary sprigs, separated from two stems
  • For Serving
  • 1 tbsp chopped chives
  • soft butter
  • 4 rashers bacon, sautéed, pat the excess oil away and broken into small pieces. See Notes

Sour Cream

  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 scallions, minced
  • 2 tbsp minced chives
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard
  • kosher salt
  • freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
  2. Scrub and dry the potatoes. Pierce each potato with a fork in several spots. Place them in a baking dish or skillet which will hold the amount you are baking snugly in one layer. Drizzle them with the oil and then rub each potato well with the oil.
  3. Pour the salt evenly over all the potatoes, letting it setting in between and on top of the potatoes. Nestle the sprigs in and around the potatoes.
  4. Bake in the centre of the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until a fork slides into a potato easily.
  5. Remove the potatoes from the salt crust, brushing away most of the salt. Arrange them on a plate. Scatter with chives and freshly ground pepper.

  6. Cut a small slit in the top of each potato, squeeze gently to open up and add a bit of butter.

  7. Serve with bacon bits and Sour Cream

Sour Cream, this can be made in advance and stored in the fridge till needed

  1. Combine the sour cream, minced scallions and chives, and mustard in a medium bowl. Taste, and then season with salt and pepper as desired.

Recipe Notes

The number of potatoes you bake will depend on how many you are serving, and when you are serving them. If they are an appetizer, count on two per person if there are other appetizer options.
As as side on a dinner plate, count on three per person or even more. Adjust the amount of sour cream accordingly. If serving as a dinner side, have butter on the table as an optional topping as well.

For extra flavour, feel free to prepare the bacon using my Pepper Bacon recipe!

Don't use expensive sea salt for this recipe.  Any coarse salt will work for a salt crust.  If the salt doesn't take on any unpleasant flavours, raw meat juices, fish scales etc, feel free to use it again.