Oven Roasted Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese

Oven roasted potatoes with bacon and cheese are the perfect quick, easy, and delightfully delicious side dish for any time of day.

I started writing this post a few months ago, sometime around the start of my third trimester of pregnancy. I craved carbs something fierce- even more fierce than usual- while I was pregnant with Q, and many nights I couldn’t think of a good excuse not to make some sort of potato dish and call it supper.

I ate Parmesan garlic roasted potatoes more than a few times, along with home fries. I had these oven roasted potatoes with bacon and cheese plenty of times, too.

The recipe is surprisingly quick and easy to make. Because the potatoes are cooked in a skillet still hot from frying the bacon, they cook quickly and develop that coveted softness on the side while becoming crisp on the outside. After the potatoes are cooked through, they’re sprinkled with crumbled bacon and cheddar cheese and returned to the oven to let everything melt together.

I often eat them just as they’re pictured, but they’re also great served with salsa, green onions, or diced avocado.

Oven Roasted Potatoes with Bacon and Cheese

Ingredients

2 large baking potatoes
4 slices bacon
1 c. shredded cheddar cheese
salt and pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cook bacon in a cast iron skillet and remove to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. While the bacon is cooking, dice the potatoes into half-inch chunks. Remove about half of the bacon grease; leave the rest in the pan. Allow the bacon grease to cool for a few minutes and then add the potatoes. Use tongs to toss them and make sure each piece is coated.

Sprinkle potatoes with salt and pepper and transfer the skillet to the oven. Bake for 10 minutes, stir and turn the potatoes, and bake for 10 minutes more. While potatoes are cooking, crumble the bacon. Remove the skillet from the oven and sprinkle potatoes with bacon and shredded cheese. Return to the oven for two to three minutes, or until cheese is melted.

Can’t get enough potatoes? You’ve got to see my baked homemade potato chips or this twice-baked potato casserole.