This Instant Pot Baby Potatoes Recipe results in a supremely flavorful, tender potato dish. You’ll have saucy, garlicky, potatoes with just 5 minutes of cook time.
Instant Pot Baby Potatoes
Once upon a time, there lived three boys who didn’t devour potatoes. Unless it was in the form of fries or taters. Otherwise, all baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, boiled and broiled potatoes…all such spuds were denied Devour Status.
One serendipitous day, their mom decided to make Instant Pot Baby Potatoes mostly because she impulsively threw a bag of baby potatoes into her cart while shopping on an empty stomach. She fully expected that she and Hubby would get to enjoy some garlicky roasted potatoes all for themselves. In an unexpected twist, all the boys shocked everyone with their sudden conversion into potato eaters.
I don’t know if the unforeseen rise of potatoes into Devour Status is due to young peoples’ ever changing taste buds, or due to the deliciousness of these Instant Pot baby potatoes, but who cares. All I know is I’ve made this potato recipe 3x this past week.
Grab some baby potatoes, toss them into your Instant Pot, and see what you think…
Pantry Staples: Basic Ingredients
- 2 lbs Baby Potatoes: You’ll want fresh baby potatoes, about 1.5 inches each. That makes for a super fast spin in the Instant Pot, with even tenderness throughout each potato.
- Dry Seasonings: We use Italian seasoning, onion powder, garlic powder, and paprika in the mix. A generous sprinkling of kosher salt and pepper are needed, as potatoes love to soak up the seasonings.
- Olive Oil and Butter: The butter provides delicious flavor, while a bit of olive oil replaces some of the butter for a lighter dish.
- Chicken Broth: A bit of broth provides just enough liquid to cook the potatoes to tender perfection, without the potatoes drying out.
What are some tips for the best instant pot potatoes?
- Be sure to pat dry the potatoes in order to remove excess moisture
- Mix the dry seasonings together in a bowl, prior to adding to the potatoes. It makes things way easier to pre-combine the seasonings
- Be sure your oil/butter mixture is hot from Sauté mode button on Instant Pot, so potatoes can be quickly sautéed once they’re added to the pot. You can do this in 2 batches, if your pot is smaller or too full.
- Close, lock, and seal lid and pressure cook on high for 5 minutes. After testing and re-testing, we found 5 minutes to be the perfect cook time.
- Once your Instant Pot beeps, do a Quick Release (manually)… carefully vent the vale fully, open lid, and enjoy the deliciousness.
Why all the rage over Instant Pot Baby Potatoes?
- They require only 5 minutes of cook time in the Instant Pot. Five and dine. (Hold the applause.)
- You get to use Quick Release method of venting, which means your Instant Pot potatoes will be done even faster
- The combination of herbs, olive oil, and butter creates a supremely flavorful potato dish
- These Instant Pot potatoes are simple and delicious, with a garlicky sauce that automatically occurs during cooking.
- Now you can clap.
What is the texture of these Instant Pot potatoes?
- After many batches of potatoes trialed in the Instant Pot, we discovered that pressure cooking is better at braising than at roasting. In fact, it does a spectacular job at braising these baby potatoes.
- Because the Instant Pot requires a bit of liquid during cook time, it produces extremely tender, flavorful potatoes with a delicious, naturally occurring sauce to spoon over your finished dish.
- If you prefer your potatoes crispy on the outside, you can place them in a single layer under the broiler just until the exterior turns crisp. It won’t take long, so you’ll want to watch your broiler closely.
P.S. Because I’m becoming an Instant Pot freak, you’l find a mini roundup of IP faves below. Enjoy 🙂
Instant Pot Baby Potatoes Recipe
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
This Instant Pot Baby Potatoes Recipe results in a supremely flavorful, tender potato dish. You’ll have garlic roasted potatoes with just 5 minutes of cook time.
Ingredients
- 2 TB butter
- 1 TB olive oil
- 2 lbs baby potatoes, about 1.5 inches each, patted dry
- 2 tsp dry Italian seasoning*
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup regular chicken (or veg) stock
Instructions
- In Instant Pot, add butter and olive oil. Press Sauté mode and heat oil until hot. Add potatoes (may need to do this in 2 batches if your IP isn’t a larger model) and brown them lightly on all sides, about 5 minutes per batch.
- Add Italian seasoning, onion and garlic powders, paprika, salt and pepper; stir to coat potatoes. Add stock, stir to combine, and close/lock the lid. Seal the valve and set your IP to Pressure Cook on High for 5 minutes.
- Once the 5 minutes are done, do a Quick Release; carefully move valve to the Vent position (I use long-handled tongs for this.) Once Quick Release is done, unlock lid and use rubber spatula to gently toss potatoes. Add additional kosher salt and pepper to taste, if needed. Gently transfer to serving plates, spooning sauce in bottom of the pot over the potatoes. Enjoy while hot.
Notes
*If you don’t have dried Italian seasoning, sub with a mixture of dried oregano, basil, rosemary, thyme, and marjoram. *If you’d like crispy potato exteriors, place them in a single layer on sheet pan, under the broiler just until they’re crisp – keep a watchful eye, as they can burn quickly. *If you want to keep it vegan, omit the butter and replace with extra olive oil
*If you enjoyed this recipe, please come back and give it a rating 🙂
- Category: Side dish
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: Instant Pot Baby Potatoes
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Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff Recipe
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My mouth is watering! These look so tasty, and so well seasoned!
Looks delicious! I like such simple recipes, totally worthy of making and spending a little time require for.
I desperately and urgently need to buy the instant pot. Your recipes are out of this world!!! Thank you!
Chad
http://www.mosaicslab.com
yes, please! thanks for sharing this recipe for instapot! I am always looking for yummy and easy recipes. My family loves potatoes! giving this one a go.
This baby potatoes looks so delicious, i love this, gotta try this recipe. Love it.
baby potatoes are my favorite kind of potatoes! So delicious! And made in pot are the best!
The instant Pot Baby potatoes looks so delicious. The recipe is simple and easy to follow. I think I would prepare this soon. Thanks.
These potatoes look delicious! And so do the other favorites underneath! I love my instant pot so I’m going to have to try these!!
These are so cute and look delicious. I haven’t cooked with baby potatoes for a while, and I like that you used different colors too. It’s nice to have some hearty recipes.
These potatoes look so good they are some of my favorite foods.
I’m pinning this recipe. This potato recipe looks fabulous. I’m always looking simple recipes to cook in my Instant Pot.
I’m missing out on so many yummy recipes without owning an Instant Pot! These look delicious!
5 minutes potatoes?! That is music to my carb-loving ears. I need to make these.
I could make these right now if I had all the ingredients… and not think twice about it even though it is after 11pm lol.
I always love Potatoes recipe and dishes. I really like them so thank you for sharing this tasty and delicious recipe here. I would sure try it. Potatoes are my fav one.
Seems so simple and doable. I would just try to make a vegan version. Thanks for sharing
I’m always looking for new gluten free sides to try! These look delicious!
I got all the ingredients present from my kitchen.. he night is still young and I might do this before hitting my sheets..
thank you for sharing
I bet the whole family will love it if I make this at home. thankyou for sharing such a good blog
It is not baby potato season here for a few more months so will bookmark this for later
Omg can we say yum? I just love baby potatoes! Must give this recipe a try
Mmmm, yummy! This recipe seems so easy to follow – I’ll have to give it a try 🙂 I love anything that includes potatoes 🙂 x
I love potatoes!!! Thanks for the recipe! I’ll have to give it a try.
I love me some good potatoes and these look perfect as a side dish or to eat alone. I will be trying these for dinner this weekend, thank you!!
Made these potatos and WOW… they were the perfect tenderness and well seasoned. Not to mention super fast and easy. I used the multi colored potatoes like you and they were so pretty. Thanks for the great recipe… this one is going in the keeper file!
These little potatoes are so delicious! So easy and flavorful! THANK YOU for sharing this recipe! I love my instant pot!
Thank you, Dawn! So so happy you guys enjoyed this 🙂
I made this last night, delicious! Even my potato-hating children liked them!
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LOL, I have one non-potato eater in this house who actually is will eat these, too!
What a simple yet delicious potato recipe to accompany any roast dish! I know my kids would definitely love eating this
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This looks so cute and perfect for the carbs. I have to go get some small potatoes for this recipe.
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The baby potatoes are so easy to cook. Over the weekend we were boiling some regular sized potatoes and they took forever!
These look delicious! I love the ease of the Instapot! I’ll have to try potatoes next.
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The baby potatoes are a really tasty accompaniment for the latter, I will steal the idea for the Christmas lunch!
oh wow they look so yummy and so easy to make as well ! win win in my books
These look so delicious and wonderful! Perfect simple side for the holidays!
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My MIL just got an instant pot for Black Friday and they are still a meat and potatoes family all the time. Ill have to send this her way.
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Yum, this is a genius dish, and so quick to make too! We eat a lot of potatoes so I’ll give this a go!
I do love baby potatoes with a garlic dressing, especially when they are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. I don’t have an instant pot but I can imagine I can make the same recipe in the oven, but in a longer time.
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Thank you, Joanna!
Incredible! I haven’t used our Instant Pot in awhile but definitely will get it back out for this recipe!
Absolutely wonderful. Followed recipe to a “T” and everyone on them were great. My whole family raved. Thanks for sharing. K. Long
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Question: can the recipe be cut in half? Can you use 1/2 the liquid?
Yes, you can do half the recipe. Enjoy!
I am still new to the Instant Pot game (yes, I’m a late bloomer) so this recipe was only the 2nd time I used my wifey toy. I made a couple amendments to the recipe – first, I put the spices and olive oil into a zip lock plastic bag then inserted my potatoes (I only had 650 grams of baby potatoes on hand and they all fit nicely into the bag), then I zipped and shook to coat the potatoes. I put the butter into the IP and sautéed for 5 min as directed but just prior to finishing this process, I tossed in some grated garlic (to taste – I never think there’s too much garlic!). I didn’t have any chicken broth on hand so I substituted 1/4 of a chicken bouillon cube dissolved into 2 cups of water – however, I only used 1/3 cup of this mix in the IP since I was using fewer potatoes than the recipe called for. No other changes were made and the finished product was amazing. To serve, I added a dash of seasoning salt and a couple dollops of sour cream! Yummmm
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Fantastic! Can’t go wrong with more garlic 🙂 So glad you guys enjoyed these potatoes… yay!
Made these for the first time with Red/Yukon baby combo. You are right….5 minutes was Perfect. Sooooo Good! Will become a regular around here, since EVERYONE loved them. (And you know how hard it is to please everyone.) Thanks so much for the recipe!
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Awesome! So happy you all loved these 🙂 🙂
My very picky 7 year old son – who doesn’t even like potatoes – loved this so much he asked me to make it every week! Thank you!!
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That’s fantastic, Erin! 🙂
So simple yet delish! Already made 2x since I found the recipe last week.
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These are everyone’s FAVORITE potatoes in my house. I make these once a week at least. They come out so crisp and flavorful on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. These are perfect…thank you for the recipe!
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Oh, that is absolutely fantastic, Cory! 🙂 🙂
I’ve made these several times and don’t change a thing. This recipe is my go-to for baby potatoes! Love love love.
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Thank you so much, Mimi!