CORNMEAL CRUSTED BAKED POTATOES

Perfectly seasoned, crispy, and oh-so-crunchy these Cornmeal Crusted Baked Potatoes are the new essential side. The perfect healthy addition to your favorite veggie bowl, dinner dish, or just when your hankering for some “fries” that pack a crunch. 

Using tahini as the glue was the trick to making these potato wedges super crunchy.  Not just crisp, but also crunchy!

Then using a medium-grind cornmeal as kind of the “lifting” factor.  You can certainly use regular cornmeal to make these, but the medium-grind lifts the potato wedge just ever so slightly off the baking sheet creating that extra crispy and crunchy exterior.

Cornmeal Crusted Baked Potatoes Recipe
When it comes to potato wedges this one is king (or queen!)  A fabulous Whole Food Plant Based recipe the whole family will be begging for. Vegan, Oil free, refined sugar free, gluten free, no processed ingredients.



Ingredients

• 4 large baking potatoes, cut into wedges, lengthwise, skins on
• 2 Tablespoons tahini (possibly a little more)
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika (+ more used later)
• 1 Tablespoon medium grind cornmeal (+ more used later)
• 1 teaspoon sea salt (+/- to taste) *
• Sprinkle black pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place the oven rack towards the middle, avoiding the lower oven rack placement.
2. Line a 14 x 20 baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
3. Mix the seasonings listed above, garlic powder, onion powder, sweet paprika, sea salt, black pepper and cornmeal in a small bowl and mix well. Set aside.
4. Cut the potatoes into wedges, and place in a large mixing bowl. Note:  You should be able to get between 6-8 wedges per potato. 
5. Coat the potato wedges with the tahini, using your hands to get some tahini on all sides of the potato wedges, then once thoroughly coated with a thin coating of tahini, dump the potato wedges onto the parchment covered baking sheet.
6. Line the potato wedges up single file/single layer across the baking sheet.
7. Sprinkle with the seasoning mixture. Then take each wedge and rub it with the seasoning mix that fell onto the baking sheet trying to ensure that each side of the potato wedge has a sprinkling of seasoning mixture on it.
8. Then take some extra cornmeal and sweet paprika and sprinkle over the wedges with a light sprinkling.
9. Bake in a 400 F oven for 30 minutes or until tender.
10. When the potatoes are done, you may wish to place them under the broiler for a few minutes to brown them up some more.
11. Once out the oven, immediately sprinkle with a light amount of sea salt.
12. Serve with your favorite dressing

Recipe Adapted : CORNMEAL CRUSTED BAKED POTATOES @ monkeyandmekitchenadventures