Lipton Onion Soup Mix Potato Recipe

Lipton onion soup mix potatoes are one of those ridiculously easy side dishes that have no business being this good. Baby potatoes, butter, and onion soup mix roast together until the potatoes are tender, golden, and covered in all those savory little onion bits. No peeling, no chopping, and very little chance of leftovers.

Table of Contents

• 🥰 Is this Lipton onion soup mix potato recipe for you?
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 📖 Recipe
• 🔪 How to make Lipton onion soup potatoes
• 😱 What can go wrong (and how to fix it)
• 👩‍🍳 What is the best type of potato for Lipton onion soup potatoes?
• 📚 More potato recipes
• 🍽️ Serve Lipton onion soup potatoes with:
• 💬 Comments

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🥰 Is this Lipton onion soup mix potato recipe for you?

This easy potato recipe is a keeper if you:

• Love crispy roasted potatoes with buttery, savory onion flavor.
• Need an easy side dish that takes just a few minutes to get into the oven.
• Have no interest in peeling or chopping potatoes. Baby potatoes understood the assignment.
• Keep Lipton onion soup mix around because sometimes the little blue box knows things.
• Want a goes-with-everything side dish for chicken, pork chops, meatloaf, steak, or whatever else you've got going on.
• Appreciate minimal cleanup. Because dinner is quite enough work without creating a sink full of consequences.

🧾 Ingredients

You only need a handful of simple ingredients to make these Lipton onion soup potatoes, and there's nothing fancy hiding in the fine print. Here's what to grab:

• Baby potatoes - Baby red potatoes work beautifully, too. You can also use chopped russet potatoes if that's what you have on hand.
• Butter - Helps the potatoes roast up golden and carries all that oniony goodness into every nook and cranny. You can substitute olive oil, bacon grease, or any light flavored oil here.
• Lipton onion soup mix - The little packet doing most of the work here. It adds plenty of savory onion flavor without hauling out half the spice cabinet.
• Thyme - Adds a little herby flavor that plays nicely with the onion and potatoes.
• Garlic powder - Because onion shouldn't have to do all the work by itself.

📖 Recipe

🔪 How to make Lipton onion soup potatoes

These Lipton onion soup potatoes couldn't be much easier. Toss everything together, spread the potatoes on a baking sheet, and let the oven handle the rest.

1. Melt the butter in a large mixing bowl. One bowl, because we're not creating extra dishes for sport.
2. Add the potatoes and toss them around in the melted butter until they're well coated.
3. Sprinkle with the Lipton onion soup mix and garlic powder. Stir until the potatoes are coated with all that oniony goodness.
4. Spread the potatoes in a single layer on a parchment-lined, rimmed baking sheet. Roast according to the recipe directions until they're golden brown and fork-tender. Sprinkle with thyme before serving.

😱 What can go wrong (and how to fix it)

This recipe is pretty forgiving, but potatoes do occasionally make poor life choices. Here's how to keep everybody in line.

🥔 The potatoes aren't getting crispy. Give them some breathing room on the baking sheet. If they're crowded together, they'll steam instead of roast.

🥔 The potatoes are browning before they're tender. Your potatoes may be a little larger than mine. Cover them loosely with foil and give them a few more minutes to soften without getting too dark.

🥔 The seasoning isn't sticking. Toss the potatoes really well in the melted butter before adding the onion soup mix and seasonings. Butter is basically the glue holding this whole thing together.

🥔 Some potatoes are done before the others. Try to use baby potatoes that are roughly the same size. If you've got a few renegade giants in the bag, cut them in half.

🥔 You're using russet potatoes instead. Cut them into evenly sized chunks so they cook at the same rate. You'll need to peel them first.

🥔 The onion bits are getting too dark. A little browning is delicious; scorched onion confetti is not. If they're browning too quickly, loosely cover the potatoes with foil for the remainder of the baking time.

👩‍🍳 What is the best type of potato for Lipton onion soup potatoes?

Baby Yukon Gold potatoes, sometimes called creamer potatoes, are my favorite because they cook up creamy and buttery inside. Baby red potatoes work beautifully, too. You can also use peeled russet potatoes cut into evenly sized chunks.

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🍽️ Serve Lipton onion soup potatoes with:

🏡 Lipton onion soup mix potatoes are proof that a good side dish doesn't need twelve ingredients and a minor culinary degree. They're buttery, savory, golden around the edges, and easy enough for a Tuesday night but perfectly happy sitting next to the holiday roast.

Keep a packet of onion soup mix and a bag of baby potatoes around and you're basically halfway to dinner. Which, some days, is the kind of victory we celebrate around here. 🥔🏆