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Roasted Potatoes with Poppy Seed Sauce

Roasted Potato Wedges coated with olive oil and fresh herbs. To make them extra special, dip them in a tangy and fresh lemon poppy-seed sauce.

roasted potatoes with poppy-seed sauce

I watched The Martian and it made me want to eat potatoes.


It reminds me of the time I watched The Hunger Games and it made me want to eat potatoes.

Whaaat?! It has the word “hunger” in its title. Hunger = potatoes. Am I right?

It also reminds me of the time I watched the news, and it made me want to eat potatoes.

Whaaat?! Watching the news can be depressing. When you’re depressed, you get hungry. When you’re hungry, you want to eat potatoes. Right?

Anyway, whatever, do you even need a reason to want to eat potatoes? Of course not.

So, I bought these bags of potatoes. Red potatoes, white potatoes, yellow potatoes, purple potatoes, regular potatoes, sweet potatoes. You name it, I got it.

multi colored potatoes | fiestafriday.net

But just in case I have to give a good reason behind the hoarding of the potatoes, nobody mentions The Martian, okay? ‘Coz that would make me sound juvenile. You know, to want to eat something just because I see it in a movie.

So, here goes, folks. If anyone asks why I bought all these potatoes, the answer is…

St. Patrick’s Day.

Now that would make more sense, right?

The day will be here next week and when you think of St. Patrick’s Day or Irish cuisine, you can’t NOT think of potatoes. Am I right or am I right?

So be prepared for a whole lot of potatoes to start showing up on this space, starting with these roasted potato wedges.

roasted potato wedges

Now I’m pretty sure I’ve said it a million times that my MOST favoritest food of all times is French fries. I know it makes me sound juvenile, but it’s the truth and I’m not afraid to say it.

And although I think French fries alone are pretty much perfect, I must have a dipping sauce. To me, that just makes eating French fries even more perfect.

And full disclosure here, I am a double dipper. One dip, one bite. Then dip again, and bite again. Everybody does that, right?

roasted herbed potatoes

There’s one drawback to French fries, though. They’re deep-fried. As much as I like eating fried foods, I dislike the deep-frying and the mess and the smell that follow. Plus, of course, it’s not the healthiest way of cooking.

So, after getting French fries twice this week from nearby fast-food joints, I decided that the third time I want potatoes, I should roast them instead.

And that’s what I did.

It’s a super simple recipe, but it’s my favorite food, so I just have to put it on the blog.

To make it worthwhile for you, however, I made this awesome dipping sauce to go with the roasted potatoes. I swear I just made up the recipe. It’s an Angie’s original, folks! It’s a lemon poppy-seed dipping sauce. And it’s very, very good!

poppy seed dipping sauce | fiestafriday.net

Tangy and fresh from the lemon and sweet from the honey, with a slight kick from the mustard. And then the poppy seeds give it that je ne sais quoi quality to it. Hey, we’re talking dipping sauce for French fries, after all, so allow me give it a little French attribute.

It goes well with chicken fingers, too, by the way. And excellent as salad dressing. Make a lot, make a little. It’s up to you. But just make it. It’ll make me glad if you do, and I think you’ll be, too!

rosemary potatoes with lemon poppy seed sauce

 

Roasted Herbed Potatoes with Poppy Seed Dipping Sauce
 
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Recipe type: Side/Snack
Cuisine: American
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
For the potatoes
  • 2 pounds mixed multi-colored potatoes and sweet potatoes
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon coarse salt
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
  • 2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves (or any herbs of your choice)
For the sauce
  • 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
  • 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
For the potatoes
  1. Scrub or peel potatoes, cut into thick wedges.
  2. Mix potatoes with the oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary.
  3. Spread on a baking sheet in a single layer.
  4. Roast in a 375°F convection oven for 45 minutes, flipping potatoes once halfway through roasting time (see note below).
For the sauce
  1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl, and whisk until smooth.
Notes
If using a regular oven setting, roast potatoes at 400°F for up to 1 hour.

 

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  1. Reading your post and looking at your photo’s makes me hungry and I want to eat potatoes, yum. love the multi color potatoes nice thick wedges with that delicious sauce. Yep potatoes are a good thing when you are hungry.

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    • I love potatoes so much! And bread, and rice, and pasta. All carbs! I know I should cut down, but whenever I lay them off for a day, the next day I eat twice as much! So I learn to not deny myself but eat in moderation ?

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  2. I love potatoes! In fact, I just made some yesterday, it’s like a comfort food for me. Roasted Potato wedges are a perfect substitution for French fries, which I love as well. 😉 I really like how you used colorful potatoes, and the sauce. ..gotta try it.

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    • The sauce is awesome, Vera! Now I love the tanginess of it, but my husband wanted more honey. So you can adjust as you like. I think using colorful potatoes make them more interesting. Plus I think they all have different textures and flavors ?

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  3. Angie! You had French fries and spoke in French! I have this urge for roast potatoes and poppy seeds dipping sauce. You have my sympathy, Angie. Potatoes are my downfall.

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    • Lol! Er…that’s as much French as I know. I hate potatoes! I mean I love them so much that I hate them, haha… They’re always ruining my diet!! ???

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  8. Do you really need a reason to eat potatoes? Obviously no 😀 btw that’s something that happens to me very often, I read a book or I watch a movie, a series, a blog post, and I want to eat what I see or what it reminds me about 🙂

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  9. Beautiful Angie, now don’t get me tempted, I’m trying to give up potatoes and bread, but this is calling my name, oh and sweets LOL! Grandly plated, gorgeous photos, but then that’s you and what we’ve come to expect from your posts 🙂

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    • Thanks, Loretta. And I just had a bagel!! I can never give up carbs, I don’t think. I’ve tried so many times and failed. And chocolate, too. Carbs and chocolates are my absolute downfall. I’m hoping now that it starts to warm up, I’ll be more into iced tea and salads 🙂

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    • Potatoes must be the most universally loved vegetable. Wait, is it a vegetable? That dipping sauce is terrific! I highly recommend it 🙂

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  13. Loving these potatoes Angie!! I’m going through a Potato phase right now too! We’re limiting our rice and bread intake and naturally potatoes are taking over! So we’re having potatoes in ALL kinds of ways! Will have to try this especially that sauce 🙂
    Ps – Wasn’t The Martian the best? Absolutely LOVED that movie!

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    • Same here, trying to watch carbs in general, but not succeeding all that much! ?? The sauce is so good, Dini, I highly recommend! Matt Damon was hilarious in the movie!

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  16. Let me tell you this… I am in vacation right now (after the horrible flu we all had) and while I was sunbathing I decides to look at my fb page… I bumped into your photo -the last one- and I was captured by the beauty of the pictures itself and, because of the photo + potatoes + sauce my mouth has stared watering. I’m not kidding. As soon as I will be home that’s what I will make…. my hubby has just decided to start a diet, poor him!

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    • Oh, your poor husband! But I can relate. After a vacation I usually want to start a diet, since it’s almost always the case when on vacation I tend to eat saltier and fattier food, and a lot of it ? But these potatoes are on the healthy side, since they’re roasted so tell the hubby they’re ok when you do make them. Have fun!! XOXO

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  20. Roasted potatoes with a wonderful dipping sauce…what could be better? I love your sauce idea. I’m thinking of all the other things I can dip in it…fried calamari, shrimp, chicken fingers, my fingers!…the possibilities are endless. Keep up the good work!

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