How to Make Hasselback Potatoes

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier and adds flavor.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated cheddar

Nutritional yeast is dairy-free and lower in calories.

Smash a clove of garlic and simmer it in olive oil and butter to make infused garlic oil.

Position the Idaho potato between two cutting boards to stabilize it and prevent cutting all the way through.

Make very thin slices in the potato, cutting about 3/4 of the way through.

Submerge the sliced potatoes in an ice water bath with a little lemon juice to help them fan out.

Place the potatoes on a baking sheet lined with foil for easy cleanup.

Strain the bits of garlic from the olive oil butter mixture to avoid burning in the oven.

Drizzle the garlic infused olive oil over the potatoes.

While the potatoes are baking, make another infused oil by heating olive oil with saffron and sliced garlic over low heat.

Slowly bring the oil to a light simmer until the garlic is fragrant and slightly golden, then remove from heat and let it infuse until the potatoes are done.

When the potatoes are done baking, strain the saffron oil and drizzle about a tablespoon over each baked potato.

Add a little salt and any other herbs or seasonings you want to the potatoes.

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