My family loves Hasselback potatoes. They are soooo delicious, but they are also a little tedious to make. Last fall, I decided to come up with a fast and easy method, so I could make them more frequently…and then promptly forgot about my resolution.

My idea was finally put into place on Christmas day. My oven was so full of other items that I didn’t have room to make Hasselback potatoes. I put the potatoes in the microwave and baked them. They were almost done baking in the microwave when the oven was finally freed up. I pulled the potatoes out of the microwave, quickly cut them, drizzled butter with olive oil, garlic and onion over the cut potatoes and placed them in the oven. And in the process created the fastest Hasselback potatoes ever.

My “Aha!” Moment: Partially cooked potatoes are much easier to cut than uncooked potatoes. This method, not only reduces the cooking time, it also reduces prep time by enabling you to cut the potatoes in a fraction of the time it takes to make traditional Hasselback potatoes.