Our Best Thanksgiving Potatoes

Mashed Potato Gratin

This holiday side combines two classics: mashed potatoes and cheese-topped potato gratin. Milk-simmered mashed potatoes are the base, sliced potatoes and shredded Gruyère are layered on top, then the casserole is baked until golden. If you own a mando

By Haley LaubeSeptember 25, 2026

Spiced Sweet Potato Tian

These buttery, spiced sweet potatoes balance savory and sweet—rather than a side that often feels closer to the dessert realm.

By Courtney HillSeptember 1, 2021

Milk-Simmered Mashed Potatoes

By cooking your potatoes in a little milk, which doubles as your mashing liquid, you get natural, creamy lusciousness—no cream needed.

By Diane UngerJanuary 21, 2024

Savory Sweet Potato Gratin

Smooth sweet potatoes, spiked with umami-rich miso, ginger and soy sauce and finished with a crisp topping of peppery-sweet panko bread crumbs and sesame seeds.

By Diane UngerOctober 16, 2017

Garlic and Rosemary Potato Tian

A classic vegetable tian is round, as it takes its name from the Provençal earthenware vessel in which is is made, But for ease, we use a 9-by-13-inch baking dish to make a simple, generously sized potato tian for the holidays. A garlicky broth spiked

By Milk StreetOctober 3, 2025

Salt and Vinegar Smashed Potatoes

Salt and vinegar potato chips as a smashed potato? Yes! Crisp outside and creamy inside, these smashed potatoes feature the popular, puckery potato-chip flavor. We tried multiple vinegars for this recipe but found that punchy white vinegar was best. T

By Hisham Ali HassanFebruary 24, 2025

French Mashed Potatoes (Pommes Purée)

In Paris, we learned a practical solution to typically laborious recipe. It breaks all the rules of American-style mashed potatoes—and achieves super-light, velvety results.

By Hisham Ali HassanDecember 2, 2025

Mashed Potatoes with Herbed Browned Butter

In search of a twist on this holiday season essential, we looked to nutty browned butter. Infusing it with hearty herbs added a layer of unexpected yet familiar flavor. For an elevated finishing touch, we pour a portion of the fragrant butter directly

By Kevin ClarkNovember 14, 2024

Mashed Potatoes with Caraway-Mustard Butter

Complexly flavored mashed potatoes made simple

By JM HirschOctober 16, 2017

Butter-Braised Mashed Potatoes

The trouble with most mashed potatoes? They taste more of milk or cream than potatoes. And they often end up gluey. So this recipe skips the liquid dairy and instead simmers russets in a minimal amount of water that is cooked off, not drained. This en

By Milk StreetSeptember 5, 2025

Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Sesame

A Japanese-inspired take on sweet potatoes

By Albert StummOctober 4, 2021

Turkish Mashed Potatoes

A trip across the Bosporus to Anatolia to find the best cheesy mashed potatoes

By Chris KimballOctober 13, 2022

Scalloped Potatoes

This recipe for scalloped potatoes is designed to be easily scaled up to serve as many as 12 (see below). The ingredients are basic, but the finished dish is rich and elegant enough for a holiday spread. Be sure to use Yukon Gold potatoes, which have

By Courtney HillSeptember 20, 2024

Croatian Mashed Potatoes

Croatian restani krumpir is a hearty, rustic dish of mashed potatoes studded with onions that are sautéed until soft and sweet, oftentimes seasoned with paprika and brightened with fresh herbs. Our version, modeled after the potatoes we tasted at Samo

Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes

When Chris Kimball told us we could make these mashed potatoes “in a closet,” that was all we needed to know.

By Diane UngerApril 7, 2020

Braised Sweet Potatoes with Coriander, Orange and Olives

This colorful side dish features an unusual combination of flavors; the inspiration comes from a recipe in “365,” a cookbook by German food blogger Meike Peters. Earthy sweet potatoes pair well with the subtle citrusy notes of coriander and the fruiti

By Courtney HillFebruary 5, 2021

Salt-Crusted Potatoes (Papas Arrugadas)

It's best to use whole small, lower-starch potatoes, such as fingerlings or Yukon Golds that are 1 to 1½ inches in diameter. Larger potatoes that have been cut into chunks won't work. Serve the potatoes with the garlicky, lightly spicy mojo picón and