Tired of boring potatoes? Need something to go along with a sandwich that isn’t fries or chips? Love potatoes? Then make this!! Forego the boring roasted potatoes or frozen fries and kick it up with some easy and quick nom nommage. Don’t relegate this to simply dinner, it’s a delicious alternative to hashbrowns or home fries at breakfast or brunch, and even good served cold or room temp for lunch or a picnic! I’m using parsley pesto to knock this one up, but you’re welcome to sub whatever green pesto suits your fancy, such as watercress + herb pesto or nice basil pesto.
I found the tricolor petite potatoes for a good price, you can use whatever petite or new potatoes you want here really, as well as whatever color bell pepper (though try and avoid green, they’re not as sweet and the sweetness really adds to the dish.) Here i chose orange bells because yellow and red were already in the potatoes and i wanted as much color as possible [color is good, you like color, use lots of colors]. The capers add a nice umami quality and some saltiness to the dish, if you don’t have them you can skip em and use a teensy bit more salt, the dish will still be yum.
look! my hands! they’re in the food! connect with your food people, use your hands. it’s okay, i promise.
Are you drooling yet? these are the potatoes straight from the oven, you can roast for longer if you prefer them a little crispier, and if you have an air fryer, that might be a good way to cook these instead. Alas, i have no air fryer. BTW, despite my saying to get your hands into your food, don’t do it when you’re mixing in the pesto, the potatoes are hot, they’ll burn you, which is not good. Use a spoon instead.
Now, go forth and roast!