Easy Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes (Patates Lemonates)

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Jun 30

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Love all things lemon and some soft and hot potatoes? These **Easy Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes** are slow roasted in broth, spices, and olive oil with a super quick prep! Complete your Greek party with these versatile and unbelievably delicious lemon potatoes!

Here we are again with another incredible potato recipe! This time, we’ll be making Greek-style potatoes that are bursting with lemon goodness!

If you’ve followed the blog for awhile, you know that I’ve been sharing all of the recipes to create my all-time favourite Greek platter that I would enjoy at Jimmy the Greek in mall food courts: Chicken skewers, lemon rice, lemon potatoes, and Tzatziki sauce. I would always get this order no matter what - except one time when they started selling gyros, which were totally delicious! Comment below if you want me to try making gyros!

My free motivational guide to explore your creativity in the kitchen, Make Cooking Fun!, goes into detail on how going out to eat can inspire you to make your own versions of your favourite meals at home, and that’s what I’ve done with one of my favourite food court feasts! The potatoes are mandatory with this meal, and I recommend you whip these up to take a trip to Greece as part of your Live to Cook one-month challenge! You can download these free resources to help you get started on your cooking journey today by signing up to my newsletter, plus all of my new recipes will be delivered straight to your inbox!

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Why You’ll Love These Greek Potatoes!

Simple side dish to make
Super hot and flavourful potatoes
Serves a crowd
Versatile serving (check out ideas later on in this post!)

What are the Best Potatoes for Greek Potatoes?

I always recommend yellow potatoes because they are the tastiest! Whether I’m making French fries or mashed potatoes, I always opt to use Yukon gold yellow potatoes. What I like about them is that they have a consistent cook time, and the inside is nice and creamy, and the outside can be crispy and delicious. When I’ve used russet potatoes for anything other than a baked potato, I find that there is not much flavour on the inside as there is when you use a yellow potato - in other words, I find russet potatoes bland.

In the case of Patates Lemonates, yellow potatoes are the traditional choice of potato for the recipe. Technically, you could use russet if you want, but you won’t achieve the same authenticity and flavour as if you were to use yellow potatoes.

How to Cut the Potatoes Into Wedges?

Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise first. Place the halves flat side down and cut in half lengthwise again.
Then, slice each of the quarters, lengthwise at an angle to get the wedges. Slice the wedges thick or thin enough to work with the recipe your need wedges for.

Do you Boil the potatoes in Advance?

If you’ve followed the blog for awhile, you may have noticed that some of my potato recipes involve par-boiling the potatoes before Because the potatoes cook in the broth, seasonings and olive oil, when you broil these potatoes, they absorb all the flavours of. If you were to boil the potatoes first, it would actually add to the potato’s cook time rather than save time. In this Greek Lemon Potatoes recipe, we want the potatoes to absorb the flavours of the seasonings, broth, oil and lemon juice for the entirety of its cooking time, so here the best route is to slow roast the Greek lemon potato wedges.

Tips for Out of This world Greek Potatoes

Make sure the wedges are sliced roughly the same length and size to ensure the potatoes all cook evenly and at the same time.
I always go for Yukon gold potatoes since they are the most flavourful kind and my favourite. Using different types of potatoes, except sweet potato of course, will result in slight variations which will be fun to experiment with.
I prefer cooking the potatoes all the way in the lemony broth as opposed to parboiling them first so the potatoes can literally cook and absorb all that good flavour.
Salting the lemony broth before the potatoes are done cooking is essential to ensure the potatoes are seasoned throughout. It’s better to under-season first if you’re unsure and adjust later than to not season at all.

EQUIPMENT FOR Greek Lemon Potatoes

INGREDIENTS FOR Slow Roasted Greek Lemon Potatoes

Check out the FULL PRINTABLE RECIPE CARD by scrolling to the bottom of this post or press the “Jump to Recipe” button for the complete list of ingredients with their measurements. The recipe card will also allow you to scale the recipe based on how many portions of Patates Lemonates you want to make - no ratios are required for you!

Yellow potatoes: You can use yellow potatoes of any size, cut into wedges.
Broth: Use vegetable broth to keep this recipe vegan. On the other hand, if you want to have a meatier flavour or if you don’t have vegetable broth on hand, then feel free to use chicken broth.
Spices: We’ll use rosemary, dried oregano, and chili flakes.
Olive oil: This just adds amazing flavour plus helps with the roasting and cooking of the potatoes. As the lemony broth evaporates, the olive oil helps to add colour to the potatoes.
Lemon: The juice of it is pretty essential in order to make this recipe Greek LEMON Potatoes!
Salt and pepper: As needed to ensure you’ve got perfect seasoning!
Fresh oregano: Optional for garnish and for a pop of colour! You could also add fresh dill or parsley.

How to Make Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes

Preheat the oven to 400 F.

Cut the potatoes into wedges and rinse the potatoes well. You can choose to leave the peel on the potatoes if desired (I did for this recipe). Transfer them to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

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Add all of the seasonings, olive oil, lemon juice and finally vegetable broth. Mix well to combine.

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Transfer to the oven, on the middle rack for 40-50 minutes or until the potatoes have softened.

Served, topped with the lemony cooking liquid.

Enjoy!

How can I make Greek Lemon Potatoes Crispy?

Once the potatoes have softened and are cooked completely, transfer them from the lemony cooking liquid to a separate baking sheet that is lined with a baking sheet or foil paper. Bake for 15 minutes or so or until they start to become crispy. Transferring them to an oven rack close to the top of the oven can help speed up this process.

Serving Suggestions For Easy Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes

These potatoes are super versatile! To be honest with you, the only way I’ve really enjoyed these potatoes as part of my favourite Greek combo at Jimmy the Greek in the food court. Here are the elements I’ve replicated at home:

However, there are never any rules, and potatoes are good any time! Here are a couple of other ways you could enjoy these Patates Lemonates if you wanted to make a fusion meal!

Storing Leftover Greek Lemon Potatoes

You can store any leftover Greek Lemon Potatoes in an airtight container. Because these lemon potatoes do not contain garlic, this safely increases their duration. I would recommend you not keep your Patates Lemonates for more than 5 days in the fridge.

Reheating Slow Roasted Greek Potatoes

You can reheat your Slow Roasted Greek Lemon Potatoes in the oven at 350 F until warm. You can also reheat in the microwave in a microwave-save bowl, dish or container. The reheating time will vary depending on the power level of your microwave.

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Yield: 4-6

Author: Anadi

Effortless Slow-Roasted Greek Potatoes (Patates Lemonates)https://youtu.be/_kX47_01ykoSee how to make easy slow-roasted Greek lemon potatoes! These simple potato wedges are slowly baked in a mixture of vegetable broth, olive oil, and Mediterranean spices. Serve with your favourite chicken skewers, lemon rice, and tzatziki for the ultimate Greek experience!2023-06-30

Easy Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes

Love all things lemon and some soft and hot potatoes? These Easy Baked Greek Lemon Potatoes are slow roasted in broth, spices, and olive oil with a super quick prep! Complete your Greek party with these versatile and unbelievably delicious lemon potatoes!

Ingredients

2 large potatoes
1 tbsp oregano
1 tsp rosemary
2 tsp chili flakes
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
Juice of one large lemon
2 1/2 cups vegetable broth

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 F.
Cut the potatoes into wedges and rinse the potatoes well. You can choose to leave the peel on the potatoes if desired (I did for this recipe).
Transfer them to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Add all of the seasonings, olive oil, lemon juice and finally vegetable broth. Mix well to combine.
Transfer to the oven, on the middle rack for 40-50 minutes or until the potatoes have softened. Served, topped with the lemony cooking liquid.