Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes are super easy to make in one skillet on the stovetop. Enjoy buttery, melt-in-your-mouth potatoes in 35 minutes!
This is the perfect potato recipe when you want something different from Mashed Potatoes or Roasted Potatoes. It’s an easy Side Dish of tender potatoes that melt-in-your-mouth with a delicious butter flavor. Give this amazing potato dish a try tonight or on your next Easter gathering!
Table of contents
- Sabrina’s Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes Recipe
- Ingredients
- Kitchen Tools & Equipment
- How to Make Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes
- Nutritional Facts
- Cooking Tips & Tricks
- Side dishes for Your Butter Baby Potatoes
- How to Store
- Sauces to Serve with Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes
- Frequent Questions
- Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes Variations
- Related Recipes
Sabrina’s Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes Recipe
When you hear steamed food, you might immediately picture leafy green veggies or some healthy, not necessarily overly flavorful, diet recipe. But don’t worry, there is nothing bland about these amazing potatoes steamed in butter! Each pillowy, buttery bite of Steamed Baby Potatoes will have you wondering why you’ve never cooked your potatoes like this before.
Steaming potatoes is an easy cooking process that’s actually much faster than boiling or baking potatoes. Plus they turn out incredibly tender and delicious with this cooking method. best of all, steaming them with melted butter in the pan makes the finished potatoes extra rich and flavorful.
Ingredients
- Baby potatoes: For this recipe, you need 2 gold baby potatoes. If you want to make a bigger batch, you can add more potatoes. You just have to make sure there’s enough room in the pan and you use enough butter for them to all be coated in melted butter as they cook.
- Butter: The cooking butter not only acts like oil to cook the potatoes in, but it also gives them a rich, buttery flavor, and helps the seasonings stick to the potatoes.
- Seasonings: For flavoring, all you need is salt, pepper, and fresh parsley. Make sure you use kosher salt, and not just table salt. Kosher salt is in larger salt flakes and works better for cooking.
Kitchen Tools & Equipment
- Skillet: This recipe needs a large enough skillet to be able to shake the potatoes to keep tossing them in butter easily. If it is too small, they won’t really move so you’ll have to remove the lid to stir them and you’ll lose all the steam.
- Lid: You definitely need a lid for your skillet that fits snugly to trap all the steam to make these potatoes. If you don’t have a lid you won’t be able to create steam and a poorly fitting one might come off when you are shaking the potatoes and let the steam out.
How to Make Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes
Time needed: 35 minutes.
- Clean your Potatoes
Since you leave the skin on for these potatoes, you want to clean them well. Scrub the potato skins in cold water until the water runs clear.
- Coat the Potatoes in Butter
Add the butter to a large, heavy-bottomed skillet. Make sure you use a pan that you have a lid for, and that is big enough for the entire recipe. Melt the butter over medium heat. Once the butter has melted add the baby potatoes, and turn the heat to low. Shake the pan to coat the potatoes in butter.
- Cook the Potatoes
Cover with the lid, and cook for 30 minutes. Continue to shake the pan every five minutes or so throughout the cooking time to make sure the potatoes are coated in butter. When the cooking finishes, season with salt, pepper, and parsley before serving the buttery potatoes.
Nutritional Facts
While these buttery potatoes taste decadent and rich, it is actually a fairly light potato dish compared to creamy, heavier dishes like potatoes au gratin. It’s a potato recipe that leaves you perfectly satisfied!
Cooking Tips & Tricks
Keep the Skillet Covered
Much like when you make rice, you do not want to remove the lid until the cooking time is up. If you remove the lid too soon, the steam will escape and the potatoes could burn on the outside but not cook through because there isn’t enough liquid to make new steam.
Make Sure to Shake Occasionally
It’s important to keep the potatoes coated in butter so it steams around them and you don’t want all the butter burning off on the bottom of the pan. So make sure to shake the pan to re-coat the potatoes about every 5 minutes or so.
Side dishes for Your Butter Baby Potatoes
Drinks: A nice crisp white wine, like Pinot Gris, would taste delicious served with these buttery potatoes and a light Baked Fish. For a steak dinner, serve the potatoes and meat with an earthy red wine like Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot.
Main Dishes: This is the perfect easy and delicious dish as part of a comfort food dinner menu. Enjoy them with hearty meals like Cube Steak and Gravy, or Slow Cooker Chicken with Gravy. Those recipes are particular favorites because the Butter Steamed Potatoes taste amazing dipped in gravy.
How to Store
Serve: After cooking, don’t leave your Butter Baby Potatoes recipe at room temperature for more than 2 hours. Cool the potatoes then store in an airtight container. They’ll stay good in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Reheat: It’s best to reheat your baby potatoes in the oven so they don’t dry out. Spread the potatoes on a baking sheet and cover with foil, then bake for about 10 minutes in a 400 degree oven.
Freeze: If you want to store them longer, let the potatoes cool completely before storing in an airtight container. Keep them in the freezer for up to 6 months. You can thaw them in the fridge before reheating or just pop them in the oven and heat from frozen.
Sauces to Serve with Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes
While these delicious potatoes are absolutely amazing just how they are cooked, they would taste equally amazing with a buttery sauce for dipping. Here are two favorite quick and delicious sauce recipes to try with our Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes.
Garlic Butter Sauce
To make a garlic butter sauce, add ⅓ cup butter, and 1 clove minced garlic to a small saucepan. Cook for 1-2 minutes over low heat. Then add ¼ tablespoon dried basil, and 2 teaspoons dried oregano to the browned butter sauce. You can use the sauce to dip the potatoes in and drizzle over your main dish.
Tarragon Sauce
To make this buttery herb sauce, add 3 tablespoons lemon juice, ½ cup white wine, and one halve shallot to a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil. Then take it off heat, and stir in 1 tablespoon cream. Strain the solids out of the sauce. Then add 1 tablespoon butter, and melt over low heat. Stir in 3 teaspoons chopped tarragon, and serve Fresh Tarragon sauce over the buttery potatoes and chicken.
Frequent Questions
It should only take about 25-30 minutes for your baby potatoes to steam all the way through and be tender. If after 30 minutes your potatoes aren’t tender, add some water to the pan to add extra steam then cover and cook another 5 minutes or so.
You can absolutely make this recipe with regular potatoes, you’ll just want to cut them into small 1-inch pieces. It’s best to use Yukon potatoes or russet potatoes because they will absorb more of the butter and get more tender than waxy red potatoes.
Yes, you can steam them for too long and they will begin to break down and crumble. You want to make sure your potatoes are even in size so you don’t overcook small ones waiting for the larger ones to cook through.
Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2 pounds baby potatoes , (about 1" sized)
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons parsley , chopped
Instructions
- To a large heavy-bottomed skillet add the butter on medium-low heat.
- Add the potatoes, lower the heat to low, and shake to coat the potatoes.
- Cover with a lid and cook for 30 minutes, shaking the pan every 5 minutes.
- Garnish with parsley to serve.
Nutrition
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Butter Steamed Baby Potatoes Variations
- Fresh Herbs: To experiment with the flavors, try using a different blend of herbs like fresh sage, fresh dill, rosemary, or oregano.
- Garlicky Potatoes: For some bold garlic flavor, you can either add minced garlic cloves to cook with the potatoes, or you can sprinkle garlic powder over the buttered potatoes.
- Vegan: You can easily make this a Vegan potato dish by swapping the butter with 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil. Since the potatoes are cooked at a low heat, you don’t have to worry about the smoke point and you can use a good quality extra virgin olive oil with lots of flavor!
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