This Potato Poppers Recipe makes bite-size appetizers that are loaded with cheesy flavor! A stuffed potato recipe that is incredibly easy to make. I used red potatoes and loaded them with cheese, sour cream, parsley, garlic and more. A potato appetizer that anyone will love.
Potato Poppers
Check out this super easy Potato Poppers Recipe for a crowd favorite Appetizer!
This Potato Poppers Recipe is not only the perfect appetizer but they are also the perfect side dish, and I find myself making it every single time + they are also freezer friendly so my friends I’m pretty sure this is the recipe to win all side/appetizer recipes of the world. Plus, here are even more of my favorite Appetizer Recipes!
Potato Appetizers
These Potato Poppers are soft and tender potatoes filled with cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar, garlic, and parsley and then baked until soft and bubbly and melty. They are also bite-sized which is awesome in my opinion and are just so filled with flavor and so crowd favorite (even the extra picky eaters like them!) that I just can’t have enough of them.
Bite-Size Appetizer
If you are thinking that making a ton of bite-sized potato poppers is a pain, don’t! It’s actually really quick, and really easy and really fast and the kids love helping to stuff them so that’s great as well, but let’s talk about my favorite part.
Can You Freeze Potato Poppers
You can actually do the whole boiling, cooking, mixing, and stuffing at once when you are meal prepping (or appetizer prepping) and then freeze them. Once you are ready to serve them, just pop them in the oven for 30 minutes and voila! Hands off appetizers or side dish done!
I like to keep them simple and to the point after all what else you need when you have cheese + baked potatoes + parsley? In my opinion nothing else, but you can also tuck in there some crispy bacon, some chili, or even a bit of pulled pork.
If you are feeling extra creative, you can even grab all the leftovers that are sitting in your fridge, mix them with all the cheeses and sour cream and use that to fill your potato poppers.
When To Serve This Potato Appetizer
Trust me when I say that you’ll find yourself making this for every dinner party, gathering, get-together or holiday you are hosting or attending, and also trust me when I say that every single person is going to ask for the recipe.
Potato Poppers
These Potato Poppers have it all: Delicious? Check! Customizable? Check! Easy to do? Check! Crowd pleasers? Check! Freezer friendly? Check!
Ingredients
- 1 Pound small potatoes
- ¼ Cup sour cream
- ½ Brick cream cheese
- ¼ Cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 Garlic clove, minced
- ⅛ Cup parsley, chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Boil the potatoes in a pot until they are tender.
- Set them aside to cool down and remove part of the potatoes with a spoon. (You can either discard or save the part you scoop out to eat another time)
- In a bowl, mix the sour cream, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and minced garlic.
- Fill the potato skins with the cheese mixture.
- Place the potatoes on a greased baking tray, and add the salt and pepper on top.
- Take to the oven for 20-30 minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Garnish with parsley.
- Serve and enjoy.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 20 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 35Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 4mgSodium: 30mgCarbohydrates: 5gFiber: 1gSugar: 0gProtein: 1g
Can I Use Other Potatoes Besides Red
You can use any new potato that is smaller in size. I find these work great. Or you are welcome to cut up and use a russet potato and make it into a bite-size appetizer if you would like. But it won’t have the skin on each site like these do.
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hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do for an Appetizer or Side Dish Recipe! Another dish that would pair well with these potatoes is this Spinach Dip Recipe! Mmm!
I made these for a Super Bowl party and they lasted less than 5 minutes! I made another small potato recipe to go with them…for a little diversity….potato salad bites…same concept…different insides! I followed your recipe exactly and they were great…and easy! The other recipe I boiled the potatoes instead of roasted them and noticed that the skins did not get wrinkly, so I think the next time I make these I will boil them rather than roast them. This is the perfect appetizer…freeze them, add stuff to them and easy to make! Best of all…everyone loved them and begged for the recipe! Well done!
Hi, I just found this recipe and it sounds awesome. If I wanted to add bacon or even the pulled pork at what point do I add that, with the mixture or on top of the mixture?
Where is the recipe?
The recipe at the very bottom of the post. I hope you enjoy these!
Loved this recipe and plan to make on larger scale in future. If you freeze, do you defrost before putting in the oven or cook frozen?
Do you discard the potato centers you remove or mix with other ingredients?
Scoop out some of the potato and either toss it or save it to eat another time. You won’t have room to put it back into the Potato popper with the other ingredients.
What are we supposed to do with the potato we scooped out? Seems kind of wasteful to me. I’ve cooked skin-on potatoes with lots of salt, then used little dishes of melted cheese and sour cream, chives, peppers, etc., for folks to dip their potatoes in. I’ve learned though, to serve this only to solid friends who aren’t so picky about “double dipping. (This recipe apparently orignated in New Jersey, I believe). JustTabandMe
I would just save the part you scooped out it in a glass container in my refrigerator and eat as leftovers with another main dish.
Scoop out some of the potato and either toss it or save it to eat another time. You won’t have room to put it back into the Potato popper with the other ingredients.
Do you mix the cheese with the potato that you scoop out?
Scoop out some of the potato and either toss it or save it to eat another time. You won’t have room to put it back into the Potato popper with the other ingredients.
Scoop out some of the potato and either toss it or save it to eat another time. You won’t have room to put it back into the Potato popper with the other ingredients.
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Saw sacks of these potatoes in the store yesterday, but didn’tbuy. Since just hubby & I, don’t do a lot of potatoes, they tend to go bad. But this is the perfect recipe, fix & freeze. Or take to our next church dinner. Thanks a lot.
It was really easy with a melon ball scoop
I was wondering if you use some of the potato pulp in the mixture?
No, I have never done that with this recipe before.