Spanish Style Potato Wedges with Rosemary and Garlic
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The holidays are finally over, time to get back to real life. We had a nice break at home, got used to sleeping at 2-3 am everyday and waking up around noon. It is going to take a little while before getting back to the rhythm of the office schedule from tomorrow. I want to kick start the regular blogging schedule on the new year by posting a recipe after the long break.
The good news about the holidays is that the major portion of the waking hours were spent around food. So I do have some recipes and restaurant reviews waiting to be posted. We had a great New Year’s eve, and I am still not completely out of it, so here is a simple recipe to start the second year of the blog.
This recipe is from the book A Passion for Tapas which my dear friend Sheela sent me last year. I have to say, these are the best roasted potatoes I’ve ever had! These went nicely with the Spanish Style Sauteed Chicken with Garlic , but this dish is flavorful enough to stand on its own. I modified the original recipe a bit by adding a generous serving of Spanish paprika to the potatoes, and substituting fresh rosemary sprigs with dried rosemary. I also increased the amount of garlic in the dish, to give a strong garlicky flavor to the potatoes.
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb small potatoes
- 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 tsp dried rosemary (1/2 tsp fresh rosemary sprigs)
- 1 tsp hot Spanish paprika
- 1/4 cup quartered shallots
- 1 tsp olive oil (use Spanish olive oil if available)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Preheat the oven to 400F. Peel the potatoes and cut into four or eight wedges depending on the size.
Place the potato wedges in a deep pan and add enough water to cover the potatoes. Add some salt to the water, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3 minutes. Remove from the stove and drain. Add the paprika to the potatoes and mix carefully to coat the potatoes.
Heat the olive oil in a roasting pan, or an oven-safe saute pan on the stove. Add the potatoes to the pan, and sprinkle the finely chopped rosemary over.
Place the pan in the pre-heated oven and roast for about 25 minutes, turning twice during this time. Add the shallots and garlic and cook for an additional 10 minutes, or until the potatoes turn golden brown. Season with salt and pepper, and serve warm.
Change the quantity of ingredients according to your taste. Since the garlic flavor was very dominant in my version, I am sending this to Sunita for her monthly spice event – Think Spice – Think Garlic.
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Category: Garlic, Potato, Rosemary, Side Dish - Dry, Spanish, Vegetarian
Sig, the wedges looks great for the snowstorm here! Happy New Year to you and your family
I always wish I could make roast potatoes that look like those, Sig! Happy New Year to you
Linda
Happy New Year, Sig!
Spain is still on your mind I see.
Great looking potatoes; I made garlicky fries on New Year’s eve myself.
Love the new look!
Happy New Year, dear
This is really a yummy! I love that you chose to add paprika! Totally delish stuffe, this one 
looks delecious sig i like potatoes in any form
this one sounds gr8!!! Lovely picture….
Aha! A veggie dish kicks off the new-look blog in the New Year
Yum! I ate a lot of these when I was in Spain, now you’ve gotten me mired in nostalgia
The warm fragrance of the wedges can be felt here thru the screen…:P
Nice mix of spices
Happy new year. Please change the link for Sunita’s event… you copied the chicken garlic link, but didn’t change the code
Caught you caught you!!
Sig, they look lovely!!!Wish I could have some!!After 2 weeks of restaurant food, takeaways and parties I guess I have to start cooking. Its so hard to come back into the loop after so long!!!
Sig, Happy New Year!
Potato wedges look terrific, great start to the second Blog Year
ooh! does that look good or what..sig! u started the year with a veggie dish..welcome to the veggie side honey…are you planning to convert
I love Potato Wedges, I bake them sprinkles with spices too. Looks yum!:)
hey, garlicky potato wedges sound good to me
Spain still on ur mind 
Hi Sig,
I have heard from people about this combination, Garlic and Rosemary, never tried that before. I will definitely try this next time…
Crisp Potato wedges. Recently I had something similar, they served with a lemon wedge and drizzling lemon juice gave the potatoes a real kick.
I like how crisp the potatoes look and like the new look as well!
Thats an easy and comfroting one Sig.. Love the new look of your space. Should work on mine too soon. It has been hectic in Nov and Dec 07. Hope to have effective 2008.
A blessed new year to you.
Those look very comforting Sig.
I love these! Potatoes and garlic are just meant to be. I make these often
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BTW, love your new look.
love the new facelift!
Potatoes sound so good and look so yummy too!
Happy New Years Sig darling!
That looks delicious Sig! Wish you guys a very Happy New Year!
Wow this looks out of the world. Bookmarked to try *soon* Thanks.
I love anything potatoes, and this looks awesome Sig. Nice entry!! I should have stopped by sooner, sorry missed your blog in the milieu of the other hundreds of them out there
Hey sig was checking out the post i missed when i was on break.
Love this potato with Rosmary.
I am going to try them once .
Hi, first time on your blog. Wonderful recipes and great pics, thanks for putting these up.
I wanted to ask – what kind of potatoes have you used here? Any particular variety that you would recommend?
Thanks!
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