Spicy and crisp, these roasted cajun seasoned potatoes are simple to through together and taste amazing. Serve with chicken, steak or pork.
Planning a good meal doesn’t have to be overly complicated.
I usually pick one “difficult” or time consuming recipe and pair with a few easy sides. I’m not a fan of having a sweaty upper lip and stressing out while cooking. In fact, I find the easier the recipe the better chance I’ll stick it into my recipe rotation and keep remaking it again and again.
That is definitely where these spuds belong, in the ro-tay-shon. Not only are they super duper easy, but they are fabulous. Just remember if you want these a little more on the spicy-Cajun side, just sprinkle with more cayenne pepper and you will have some ultra spicy tots.
To Make These Roasted Cajun Seasoned Potatoes You Will Need:
- baby yukon gold potatoes
- extra light olive oil
- cajun seasoning
- kosher salt
- parsley
Four ingredients… for real!?! Well 5 if you include a little kosher salt sprinkled over top after they come out of the oven. First things first, preheat your oven along with an aluminum sheet pan. Remember in this post, when I said if you get your pan nice and hot you decrease the chance of the potato, or any vegetable for that matter, sticking to the pan during roasting. OR instead of preheating, line it with parchment paper.
Next, slice 3 pounds baby Yukon gold potatoes on a diagonal; doing that increases the surface area, meaning… more crispy goodness.
Then toss them into a large bowl, probably larger than this one here… I never have enough room which leads to me flinging things out of the bowl. It happens.
Next, drizzle with 3 tablespoons extra light olive oil.
Next, sprinkle the potatoes with 1-1/2 tablespoons of Cajun Seasoning.
And then toss to coat.
Then spread out the potatoes on to your hot sheet pan. Wish you could hear the sizzle action going on here.
Next, pour any remaining seasoned oil over Cajun Seasoned Potatoes, and then just stick the pan in the oven for 20 minutes.
Then after the first twenty are up, toss and flip the potatoes around and stick back in the oven for 20 more. Repeat one more time for a total of 60 minutes in the oven. Remove, sprinkle with a little kosher salt and let cool for a tad.
Then chop up some flat leave parsley, about 2 tablespoons chopped.
Lastly, sprinkle the chopped parsley over top the potatoes.
Simple enough that you could serve it with steaks, yet jazzy enough to saddle up next to your turkey this Thanksgiving. Either way, they’re an easy side dish that will surely make it into your menu rotation.
Enjoy! And if you give this Roasted Cajun Seasoned Potatoes recipe a try, let me know! Snap a photo and tag me on twitter or instagram!
Cajun Seasoned Potatoes
Ingredients
- 3 pounds baby Yukon gold potatoes
- 1 tablespoon light olive oil
- 1½ tablespoons Cajun Seasoning
- kosher salt, to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Instructions
- Preheat an aluminum sheet pan in your oven to 350°.
- Slice your potatoes in half on a diagonal and place into a large bowl.
- Drizzle with a good amount of olive oil and sprinkle with the tablespoon and a half of Cajun seasoning and the salt.
- Toss and spread out onto the hot sheet pan. Place back into the oven for 60 minutes, tossing every twenty minutes.
- Once crispy and fork tender, remove and let cool slightly. Toss the potatoes with chopped parsley and serve.
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Laurie, these pictures make me want to reach into my screen and eat them! They sound wonderful!
I'm new here… I just wanted to say your photos are amazing!
I'm going to raise my hand timidly in the back of the class room, because I have this magazine…..
and I've yet to open it……
or last months….. or the month before that.
Seriously, I need some time to play catch up.
But these potatoes make me want to go rip pages out and stick them on the fridge right now.
I love my bon appetit subscription too! The potatoes look wonderful!
I love R-O-A-S-T-E-D Potatoes…These looks like golden morsels…Thanks laurie for this amazing recipe..
Mmmm…ready to leave work and cook these! I am sure my "Slap ya momma" or "Tony's" would work great on these potatoes.
I love roasted potatoes! Yum!
I love all the spices used in this! What a great way to liven up plain ol' potatoes 🙂
Just the cajun seasoning alone looks like a great spice mix to have on hand. Creative idea, using the mix to season roasted potatoes. Thanks for posting this savory recipe-delicious.
Thanks for the season recipe! I've wanted Cajun seasoning but I didn't want to buy it. I love that I can make it myself!
I love Bon Appetit and I love Cajun spices. This sounds perfect Laurie, and your photos make me want to eat those potatoes off of my screen!
Those look wonderful! What a great recipe for potatoes. That cajun seasoning looks great!
Wow, these pictures look great! Roasted potatoes with spices sound delicious.
Is it crazy that I keep cajun seasoning in my pantry and NEVER thought to put it on potatoes. Your pictures are great and you can guess what we are having for dinner…yep, steak and cajun fries! Thanks so much
I don't have the magazine 🙁 But I do have a love for all things cajun! These potatoes are rocking and could see why they need to be made asap. Thanks for sharing & lovely photos.
Um, yes please! I'll be trying this for a fun casual dinner party. Serve it with fish and homemade tarter and you've got your self a meal! Thanks for the recipe!
FABULOUS!!!!! I would eat just this for dinner (or breakfast!) and be totally ok with it!
This seasoning sounds AWESOME! And your potatoes turned out perfect!
I haven't heard that tip about a hot baking pan- I'm totally trying that!! Along with this recipe – delicious!
O.M.G.
This has just made my LIFE.
i have been staring at my bon appetit on my desk for days as i do a ton of busywork. don't these people know i have magazines to read and recipes to try? 🙂
Hi Jen~ So glad you stopped by! Thanks for the wonderful compliment!
Kita~ I find time to "catch up" on my mags when it's "football Sunday" and my husband hoard the computer with all this fantasy football buisness :S
Tina~ We have sprinkled this Cajun seasonin on just about everything! I've since added a little more cayenne, but I like it on the
Hi Laurie! I just found your blog and can't wait to read through your posts. These potatoes sound fantastic and your photos are gorgeous!
Adding your blog to my reader! 🙂
Hi Amanda! Thanks so much!! I'm so glad you stopped by! 🙂
As a potato fanatic, these photos have me salivating. I will definitely be trying these tonight. They look delicious and the cajun seasoning is the perfect compliment to the buttery flesh of a yukon gold potato. 🙂
Oh man, these look perfectly roasted, I just would love to dig in! 🙂 Great spice mix recipe thank you so much for sharing!
I was treated to dinner at a great restaurant and I am SO full but I still want these potatoes. I know that I will add some onion wedges and garlic cloves. This is probably not considered breakfast food but I don't mind being different. Some fruit first and a scrambled egg. Mmmm … maybe I should make enough to have leftovers for lunch. Cold roasted potatoes are still delicious.
what a great recipe! i didn’t have thyme, i eyeballed all the seasonings, and i chose to cook them in a skillet first and finish them off in the oven- and they were still amazing! sriracha and an omelet were perfect companions for them too. this seems like a super flexible recipe for seasoned potatoes and the ingredients are so simple that no matter whose pantry i’m using, i know i can whip this up anytime. LOVEloveLOVE.
I cut my potatoes smaller so that it would cook faster and it worked well. The flavour is great!
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