Easy Boiled Garlic Butter Potatoes

5 from 1 vote

Garlic Butter Potatoes are a quick and easy side dish. Soft and fluffy, they melt in your mouth and can be paired with just about any main!

Prep Time5

Cook Time15

Total Time20

Course: Side, Side Dish

Cuisine: Western

Keyword: garlic butter potatoes

Servings:

Calories: 124kcal

Prepare the potatoes: use a knife and chopping board to roughly chop the potatoes.
Boil potatoes: add chopped potatoes to a pot of boiling salted water. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes until a skewer inserted into one of the pieces slides easily through to the other side. Note 2
Drain: use an oven mit on the handle of the sauce pan to remove it from the stove. Place it on a heatproof surface and then use a colander to drain the potatoes. The water can be discarded.
Butter and garlic: transfer the drained cooked potatoes back to the sauce pan and onto the stove. Add the chopped butter pieces keeping a few aside to top the dish. Add the minced garlic to the sauce pan and use a wooden spoon to stir combining the cooked potatoes, butter and minced garlic.
Serve and enjoy: garnish the potatoes with the chopped parsley, leftover cubes of butter and freshly cracked black pepper. Provide 2 large spoons for serving.

Note 1 - Potatoes: Washed potatoes, new potatoes, round red or white are all popular varieties of potatoes that will work well for the recipe.
Note - Cooking the potatoes: there are 2 tricks that you can do to speed up the potato cooking process. The 1st is to boil the kettle and use that water as to not wait for room temperature water to boil. The 2nd is to use a saucepan with a lid. This will keep the heat in and ensure that the water reaches boiling point sooner.