Best Tarragon Potatoes Recipes

SALMON WITH POTATOES AND HORSERADISH-TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees and liberally grease a 9-by-13-inch glass baking dish with butter. Slice the potatoes paper-thin (less than 1/8-inch thick) and line the dish with the potatoes, slightly overlapping them as you arrange them in an even layer. Season generously with salt and pepper, dot with the shallots and bake until the potatoes are almost cooked through, about 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, prepare the horseradish-tarragon sauce: Add the sour cream, prepared horseradish, 2 tablespoons each tarragon and chives, white pepper (if using) and 1 teaspoon salt to a medium bowl and stir to combine. Refrigerate. (This makes about 1 1/3 cups.)
• Sprinkle the salmon with the paprika and season with salt. Remove the dish from the oven and gently place the salmon on top of the potatoes. Brush 2 to 3 tablespoons of the horseradish-tarragon sauce over the salmon to coat, then bake until the fish flakes with a fork, 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the thickness of the fillet.
• Sprinkle the fish with the remaining 1 tablespoon each tarragon and chives. Serve with the remaining horseradish-tarragon sauce.

ROASTED TURKEY TENDERLOIN WITH NEW POTATOES AND TARRAGON BROTH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Place oil in a large baking dish. Season turkey tenderloins all over with salt and black pepper and place in baking dish. Arrange potatoes all around turkey and turn to coat with oil. Season potatoes with salt and black pepper. Arrange shallots over potatoes in pan.
• In a small bowl, combine wine, broth, vinegar, and tarragon. Pour mixture over turkey.
• Roast turkey and potatoes 40 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer registers at least 160 degrees F. Let turkey rest 10 minutes before slicing crosswise into 1/2-inch thick slices. Serve half of the turkey and potatoes with this meal, with all of the broth from the pan over top. Serve spinach on the side. Reserve remaining turkey and potatoes for additional meals.

DIJON-TARRAGON CHICKEN, MASHED POTATOES WITH BRIE OR CAMEMBERT AND RAINBOW CHARD WITH BACON AND LEEKS

Steps:

• For the mashed potatoes: Peel potatoes and cube into uniform pieces, 8 per potato. Smash two cloves of garlic. Place potatoes and smashed garlic in saucepot, cover with water, cover pot and bring to boil. Season with salt and cook to tender, removing lid once potatoes boil. Return the potatoes and garlic to hot pot after draining, then add milk or stock and cheese and mash. Season with pepper of choice, then keep covered.
• For the Dijon-tarragon chicken: While potatoes are coming to a boil, remove tenders from chicken and pound the breasts (if they are large) 1/2 inch thick, then cut each into 3 pieces. Season chicken breasts and tenders with salt and pepper.
• Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat with EVOO and melt butter into oil. When it foams, add chicken and brown on both sides, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Peel and chop shallot and chop or grate garlic.
• Remove chicken to a plate, add shallots and garlic and stir a minute or so. Add wine and reduce to 1/4 cup, then add stock and bring to boil. Add creme fraiche or heavy cream and simmer at low rolling boil 2 to 3 minutes, then add Dijon and juice of 1/2 lemon. Chop and add tarragon, slide chicken back into pan and leave on warm or cover pan.
• For the chard with bacon and leeks: While chicken is working, heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 turn of the pan. Stem chard and chop stems; shred the greens. Chop and add bacon to the pan and brown to crisp, 4 minutes. Quarter leek and trim root, then chop; add chard stems and leek to bacon, stir 2 minutes, then wilt in chard greens. Season with salt and pepper and nutmeg to taste, then add juice of 1/2 lemon.
• Serve chicken alongside mashed potatoes and greens with bacon.

POACHED SALMON WITH TARRAGON SAUCE AND FINGERLING POTATOES

Steps:

• Make sauce
• Pick enough tarragon leaves to measure 1/2 cup (do not pack). Chop enough chives to measure 1/3 cup. Coarsely chop shallot. In a food processor puree tarragon, chives, and shallot with remaining sauce ingredients until smooth and season with salt and pepper. Sauce may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring sauce to cool room temperature before serving.
• Make Fish
• In a deep 10-inch skillet bring wine and water to a simmer, covered. Cut salmon into 6 pieces and season with salt and pepper. Submerge 3 salmon pieces, skin sides down, in simmering liquid (add hot water if necessary to just cover salmon) and poach at a bare simmer, covered, 8 minutes, or until just cooked through. Transfer cooked salmon with a slotted spatula to a platter to cool and poach remaining salmon in same manner. When salmon is cool enough to handle, peel off skin and if desired with a sharp knife scrape off any dark meat. Salmon may be cooked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring salmon to cool room temperature before serving.
• Assemble
• Cut potatoes lengthwise into 1/8-inch-thick slices. In a steamer set over boiling water steam potatoes until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Spoon sauce onto 6 plates and arrange some potatoes in a circle, overlapping slightly, on top of sauce . Season potatoes with salt and arrange salmon on top of potatoes. Garnish salmon with peas.

GRILLED FINGERLING POTATOES WITH CREAMY TARRAGON VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Preheat a grill to medium heat.
• Combine the vinegar, a splash of water, the shallots, mustard, mayonnaise and tarragon in a blender and puree until smooth. With the motor still running, slowly pour in the oil and blend until the vinaigrette has emulsified. Adjust the seasoning with salt and black pepper, to taste.
• Brush the potatoes with some canola oil and season them with salt and black pepper, to taste. Grill them, cut side down, until they are lightly golden, then turn them over and continue grilling until they are just cooked through. Transfer them to a platter and immediately drizzle with the vinaigrette. Garnish with a few tarragon leaves and serve.

FINGERLING POTATOES WITH TARRAGON CHIVE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place a steamer insert in a large pot. Add enough water to reach the bottom of the steamer. Add in potatoes. Cover and bring to a boil; steam until tender, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt 2 tablespoons butter in a small skillet over medium-low heat. Add garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened but not browned, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Transfer garlic butter to a mini food processor. Add remaining butter, creme fraiche, chives, and tarragon; pulse until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
• Drain potatoes and place in a bowl. Gently break open using the back of a large spoon, but do not mash. Mix in about 1/2 of the garlic-herb butter. Season with salt and pepper.

TARRAGON POTATOES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, dissolve bouillon in water. Stir in the vinegar, oil, tarragon, garlic and pepper. Place the potatoes in a greased 11x7-in. baking dish. Add tarragon mixture and stir to coat. Sprinkle with onion., Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until tender.

SCALLOPS WITH MASHED POTATOES WITH TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Place potatoes in large pot. Cover with cold water. Add 1 teaspoon salt and bring to boil over high heat. Boil until potatoes are tender when pierced with skewer, about 8 minutes. Drain. Return to pot. Using potato masher, mash potatoes. Mash in 1/4 cup butter. Stir in 2/3 cup milk. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 hour ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Before serving, stir over medium heat until heated through, adding more milk by tablespoonfuls if dry.)
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper. Add scallops; sauté until just opaque in center, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to plate; tent with foil. Reserve juices in skillet.
• Place wine and shallots in small saucepan. Simmer over medium heat until reduced to glaze, about 3 minutes. Stir in cream; simmer 1 minute. Gradually whisk in remaining 1/4 cup butter. Stir in reserved pan juices. Stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons tarragon. Season tarragon sauce to taste with salt and pepper.
• Stir remaining 1/4 cup tarragon into warm mashed potatoes. Divide potatoes among 4 shallow bowls. Place scallops atop mashed potatoes. Drizzle with tarragon sauce and serve.

GRATIN OF POTATOES WITH WHITE CHEDDAR AND TARRAGON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Layer 1/3 of potatoes in prepared dish, overlapping slightly. Sprinkle with 1/3 of salt and 1/3 of pepper. Sprinkle with 1/3 of tarragon, then with 1/3 of cheese. Repeat layering twice more with remaining potatoes, salt, pepper, tarragon, and cheese.
• Whisk cream and wine in medium bowl to blend. Pour over potatoes. Bake uncovered until potatoes are tender when pierced with knife and top is golden, about 1 hour. Let gratin stand 5 minutes before serving.

STEAMED POTATOES AND CARROTS WITH TARRAGON BUTTER

Steps:

• Stir together butter, parsley, chives, and tarragon in a small bowl until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Butter can be refrigerated, covered, up to 2 days.
• Fill a medium pot fitted with a steamer insert with 2 to 3 inches water. Bring water to a simmer over medium-high heat. Add potatoes to insert; sprinkle with 3/4 teaspoon salt, and cover. Reduce heat to medium-low. Steam until potatoes are just tender, about 15 minutes. Add carrots; cover, and steam until vegetables are tender when pierced with a knife, about 5 minutes.
• Transfer to a serving platter. Spoon about 2 tablespoons tarragon butter over vegetables. Serve immediately with remaining butter on the side.

FINGERLING POTATOES WITH CHIVES AND TARRAGON

Steps:

• Peel potatoes and halve lengthwise.
• Bring potatoes, water, oil, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper to a simmer in a 10-inch nonstick skillet, then cover and briskly simmer, shaking skillet occasionally, until potatoes are tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove lid and cook, stirring gently, until most of water has evaporated and potatoes are glazed, 1 to 2 minutes more. Stir in herbs.

ROASTED TARRAGON & GARLIC POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Place the potato pieces in a medium-sized tupperware container and add all other ingredients. Secure lid on container and shake until well combined.
• Dump out onto an ungreased cookie sheet and spread out into a single layer.
• Roast for 20 minutes and turn the potato pieces. Roast for another 15-20 minutes or until potatoes are cooked through and lightly browned.

ROASTED FINGERLING POTATOES & GREEN BEANS IN TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°.
• Cut fingerlings in half lengthwise, and place in a large bowl.
• Toss with 1 tablespoons olive oil, 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoons pepper.
• Place potato halves, cut sides up, in a jelly-roll pan.
• Toss green beans with remaining 1/2 tablespoons oil, 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoons pepper, and place in another jelly-roll pan.
• Bake potatoes at 425° for 30 to 32 minutes or until tender and browned.
• While the potatoes are baking, make the sauce.
• Whisk together first 6 ingredients in a small bowl until combined.
• Gradually whisk in oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking constantly until smooth.
• Whisk in green onion and tarragon.
• Use immediately, or store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 2 days.
• Let chilled dressing stand 30 minutes before using.
• Remove potatoes from oven, and let potatoes stand in pan.
• Bake green beans at 425° for 12 minutes.
• Arrange green beans around roasted potatoes on a serving platter.
• Drizzle with Creamy Tarragon Dressing.

GRILLED NEW POTATOES WITH TARRAGON BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat a grill to medium high.
• Mix the butter, tarragon, lemon zest, a large pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper together in a small bowl.
• In a resealable plastic bag, toss the new potatoes with the olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Add the potatoes to the grill and cook, turning once or twice, until well-marked and tender, about 10 minutes.
• Serve the potatoes hot, topped with a generous spoonful of tarragon butter (remaining butter can be refrigerated up to 1 week).

POACHED SALMON WITH TARRAGON SAUCE AND FINGERLING POTATOES

Steps:

• Make sauce:.
• Pick enough tarragon leaves to measure 1/2 cup (do not pack).
• Chop enough chives to measure 1/3 cup.
• Coarsely chop shallot.
• In a food processor puree tarragon, chives, and shallot with remaining sauce ingredients until smooth and season with salt and pepper.
• Sauce may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
• Bring sauce to cool room temperature before serving.
• Make Fish:.
• In a deep 10-inch skillet bring wine and water to a simmer, covered.
• Cut salmon into 6 pieces and season with salt and pepper.
• Submerge 3 salmon pieces, skin sides down, in simmering liquid (add hot water if necessary to just cover salmon) and poach at a bare simmer, covered, 8 minutes, or until just cooked through.
• Transfer cooked salmon with a slotted spatula to a platter to cool and poach remaining salmon in same manner.
• When salmon is cool enough to handle, peel off skin and if desired with a sharp knife scrape off any dark meat.
• Salmon may be cooked 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.
• Bring salmon to cool room temperature before serving.
• Assemble:.
• Cut potatoes lengthwise into 1/8-inch-thick slices.
• In a steamer set over boiling water steam potatoes until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes.
• Spoon sauce onto 6 plates and arrange some potatoes in a circle, overlapping slightly, on top of sauce .
• Season potatoes with salt and arrange salmon on top of potatoes.
• Garnish salmon with peas.

SCALLOPS WITH MASHED POTATOES AND TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Place potatoes in large pot.
• Cover with cold water.
• Add 1 teaspoon salt and bring to boil over high heat.
• Boil until potatoes are tender when pierced with skewer, about 8 minutes.
• Drain. Return to pot.
• Using potato masher, mash potatoes.
• Mash in 1/4 cup butter.
• Stir in 2/3 cup milk.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• (Can be made 1 hour ahead. Let stand at room temperature. Before serving, stir over medium heat until heated through, adding more milk by tablespoonfuls if dry.)
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Sprinkle scallops with salt and pepper.
• Add scallops; sauté until just opaque in center, about 2 minutes per side.
• Transfer to plate; tent with foil. Reserve juices in skillet.
• Place wine and shallots in small saucepan.
• Simmer over medium heat until reduced to glaze, about 3 minutes.
• Stir in cream; simmer 1 minute.
• Gradually whisk in remaining 1/4 cup butter.
• Stir in reserved pan juices.
• Stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons tarragon.
• Season tarragon sauce to taste with salt and pepper.
• Stir remaining 1/4 cup tarragon into warm mashed potatoes.
• Divide potatoes among 4 shallow bowls.
• Place scallops atop mashed potatoes.
• Drizzle with tarragon sauce and serve.

TWICE-BAKED POTATOES WITH GOAT CHEESE AND TARRAGON

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Put the potatoes on the oven rack and bake until very tender, about 1 hour. Protecting your hand with an oven mitt, slice the top third off of each potato and discard or save for another use. Being careful to leave the skins intact, use a spoon to gently scoop out the flesh from the potatoes and place it in a mixing bowl. Transfer the potato skins to a baking sheet.
• While the potato flesh is still hot, add the goat cheese and butter and use a potato masher or fork to mash them in. Continue to mash until the mixture is smooth. Stir in the milk and tarragon. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Pile the mashed potatoes back into the skins. Raise the oven temperature to 450 degrees. Sprinkle the Parmesan over the potatoes and bake until the tops are golden, 20 to 30 minutes.

CREAMY TARRAGON SCALLOPS WITH SPINACH & SMASHED POTATOES

Steps:

• Boil until potatoes are tender, about 8 minutes.
• Drain.
• Return to pot.
• Smash potatoes.
• Stir in 1 tablespoons butter. Stir in Half and Half and ½ teas. tarragon into warm smashed potatoes.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Set aside and keep warm.
• Steam spinach leaves and keep warm.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in cast iron or heavy skillet over medium-high heat.
• Dry scallops and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Add scallops; sauté until just opaque in center, about 2 minutes per side.
• Transfer to plate; tent with foil.
• Reserve juices in skillet.
• Sauté onions in skillet until softened; add garlic, then wine.
• Deglaze skillet.
• Simmer over medium heat until absorbed, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to MED-LOW.
• Stir in about 1/2 cup Half and Half and 1 teas. tarragon; simmer 1-2 minute to thicken.
• Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper.
• To serve: Divide and place steamed spinach on top smashed potatoes on two warmed plates.
• Divide scallops and place on spinach.
• Divide sauce over all.

FRIED FINGERLING POTATOES WITH TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring potatoes, 1/4 cup kosher salt, and 8 cups water to a boil in a large saucepan and cook until potatoes are tender, about 12 minutes. Drain; let cool completely. Halve potatoes lengthwise. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
• Whisk egg yolk, lemon juice, and a pinch of sea salt in a small bowl. Gradually whisk in 1/2 cup olive oil until mayonnaise forms. Stir in shallot and tarragon. Season to taste with pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover and chill.
• Heat remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Add capers and fry, stirring often, until crisp and golden, 2-3 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer capers to paper towels to drain. DO AHEAD: Can be made 4 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
• Pour vegetable oil into a large pot to a depth of 2". Attach a deep-fry thermometer to side of pot. Heat oil over medium heat until thermometer registers 375°F. Working in batches, fry potatoes until crisp and dark golden brown, 3-4 minutes. Drain on paper towels. Season lightly with sea salt.
• Arrange warm potatoes on a platter, cut side up. Spoon some mayonnaise over each; sprinkle with capers.

ELEGANT TARRAGON TWICE BAKED POTATOES

Steps:

• NOTE: Depending on the size of your potatoes is how much of the other ingredients you will need. If the potatoes tend to be more medium-sized than large, start with the smaller amounts.
• Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Pierce potatoes, rub the potatoes with oil, sprinkle with the coarse salt, and bake 1 hour or until tender when tested. Set the oven to broil.
• In a small pan, heat the butter and milk, but do not boil.
• Cut the potatoes in half lengthwise and scoop out the pulp. Mash, until creamy, with the butter/milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir in the cheese and tarragon.
• Place the potatoes into a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe back into the shells.
• Broil the potatoes until the top is just golden brown, about 1-2 minutes, depending on your broiler.