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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
This gorgeous alternative to classic mashed potatoes is surprisingly easy to make and perfect for serving with your next roast dinner.
Looking for inspiration for dishes that you can serve with your duchess potatoes? Why not learn How to Cook a Perfect Porterhouse Steak? Or, for a fish option, try this Fast and East Lemon Garlic Grilled Salmon!
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making these potatoes will take you about 90 minutes from start to finish.
- Variations: You could try making these pretty potatoes with a different type of starchy potato, or even sweet potatoes or yams. Try your favourite varieties of cheese or experiment with your own seasoning mixes. Load these up with some fresh rosemary and garlic or even more delicious flavour.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large pot, a colander, a large bowl, a potato masher, a cutting board, a knife, a grater, a piping bag, a pastry brush, and a large baking sheet.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Potatoes: Starchy potatoes will work best for this dish. Something like russet or Yukon Gold is ideal for creating the creaminess and fluffiness that makes this side dish so decadent.
Cheese: Parmesan, pecorino, Romano, etc. are all great options for this dish. You can also use a sharp cheddar if you’d like. Or, if you’d like to skip cheese entirely, add a sprinkle of nutritional yeast to get the umami flavour without the added dairy.
Nutmeg: This warm spice, which you may associate with the dessert dishes, has a way of accentuating the flavours of rich foods. You probably won’t notice the nutmeg itself, as much as the way it brings together the rest of the flavours.
How To Make Duchess Potatoes
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Peel and slice the potatoes.
- Add potatoes to a large pot with water and salt. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20-25 minutes.
- Drain potatoes and return to the pot. Keeping the heat low, cook the potatoes until the remaining water evaporates. Remove from heat and let cool for 15 minutes.
- Put cooked potatoes in a large bowl and mash until smooth. Add butter, eggs, and seasonings. Mix until combined.
- Spoon mixture into a piping bag and then pipe the mixture onto a baking sheet in 1/2 cup amounts. Make a rosette by piping in a circular motion, ending with the peak in the middle.
- Brush potato rosettes with melted butter and refrigerate for 25 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 420°F. Bake potatoes for 15-20 minutes.
- Garnish with chopped chives, finely grated cheese, or herbs.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Duchess Potatoes
Garnish Ideas: Finely chopped chives look beautiful on these potatoes, but you can also use parsley or dill or almost any other fresh herbs. Tarragon would work especially well if you’re serving these with some sort of main dish that involves lemon. You could try brushing the rosettes with melted garlic butter or some rosemary-garlic oil instead of plain butter. If you happen to have some salt-cured egg yolks around, grate a tiny bit of that over the potatoes when you’re serving them for a salty, umami bite.
Ideal Companions: Potatoes work well as a side to most proteins and Duchess Potatoes are no exception. Serve these with a Grilled Pork Loin or Creamy Mushroom Beef Chuck Roast Recipe. The flavours may pair especially nicely with some eggs benedict drenched in rich Hollandaise sauce, or with something lighter like fish.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Store these in an airtight container in the fridge before or after baking them, for 2-3 days. Bake in the oven when you’re ready to have them hot and fresh, or reheat them in the microwave or air fryer if they’ve already been cooked once.
Freezer: If you’d like to freeze these for later, try freezing them while they’re on the baking sheet. That way, you can put them straight into a preheated oven when you’re ready to eat them. You can heat them up until they’re golden brown. You can do this after they’ve been cooked once, but they may be dried out or the texture may change.
More Delicious Potato Side Dish Recipes
Looking for more tasty things to make with potatoes?
Try these Party Potatoes.
Make some Roasted Fingerling Potatoes to go with your next roast.
Potato Lefse work beautifully for a breakfast or brunch, with some eggs and sausage.
There you go, friends. Something a bit fancy to make with your potatoes. Try out this recipe and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Duchess Potatoes
Ingredients
- 2 pounds potatoes, Yukon gold or russet peeled and quartered
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 6 tablespoons butter, divided
- 2 large egg yolks
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon white pepper or black pepper
- 1 teaspoon heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ cup Parmesan cheese freshly grated, for garnish
- 1 chive, for garnish
Instructions
- Prepare a piping bag with large open star tip. Grease a baking sheet. Set aside.
- Peel and slice potatoes into 1 inch chunks. Fill a 3-quart pot with 4 inches water and 1 teaspoon salt. Add potatoes; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer until tender, 20 to 25 minutes. Drain; return potatoes to the pot.
- Heat the potatoes over low heat until remaining water steams off, about 4 minutes. Let cool, at least 15 minutes.
- Place potatoes in a large bowl and use a potato masher until smooth. Let the potatoes stand for 5 minutes. Add 4 tablespoons butter, egg yolks, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, nutmeg, and pepper. Mix until just combined; spoon into the piping bag. If the piping bag is too hot place it in the fridge for 10 minutes.
- Pipe potato mixture onto the prepared baking sheet into 8-10 half cup rosettes with a circular motion, finishing with a small peak in the center. Leave a 2 inch gap between each.
- Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter and gently brush the tops of the rosettes with the butter.
- Refrigerate until slightly firmer, about 25 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 420°.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 15-20 minutes.
- Feel free to garnish with chopped chives or fine grated Parmesan or herbs and spices!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ilmu Forensik says
What makes these potatoes different from the others?