20+ Budget-Friendly Potato Recipes

What I love too is that it’s actually not that hard to learn how to grow potatoes either. We grow a handful of them in the backyard every year.

If you’re looking for dinner inspiration, and you want some cheap meals to make with potatoes, check out the potato recipes list below.

Those are all our tried and true, favorite potato recipes — none of which will break the bank.

15+ Budget-Friendly Potato Recipes

Creamy Mashed Potatoes

The most popular potato recipe is mashed potatoes, so our Creamy Mashed Potatoes kicks off this list.

Russet potatoes are combined with sour cream and heavy cream, plus butter, to make the fluffiest mashed potatoes you’ve ever had.

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Classic Potato Salad

Another potato classic is potato salad. Sometimes they get fancy (and we do have some fancy potato salad recipes on this list), but this Classic Potato Salad is, well, classic.

Potatoes are mixed with egg whites and coated in a creamy dressing made from egg yolks and a few other ingredients.

Homemade Home Fries

Home fries are the perfect breakfast side dish. They’re soft and crunchy, warm and inviting. And really easy to make.

They take a while to make in the oven, so be sure to start them before you start cooking the rest of breakfast. By the time everything else is ready, you’ll have perfect homemade home fries ready to serve.

Grilled French Fries

If you’re already grilling burgers and hot dogs for dinner, you might as well go ahead and grill your French fries too. It makes so much more sense than making them in the oven, then running back and forth between the oven and the grill.

Loaded Poutine Twice Baked Potatoes

I can’t even describe to you how much of hit these poutine potatoes are. Everyone loved them fresh out of the oven and even reheated too. The ingredients sound like a little much if you’ve never had poutine before (it involves brown gravy and cheese curds), but trust me when I tell you these are delicious.

I also made myself laugh hysterically when I started nicknaming these “Pu-tatoes,” so please, steal my joke when you make these.

Air Fryer Baked Potatoes

Baked Potatoes are delicious, but they take about an hour to cook in the oven. And that’s a long time when you’re hungry.

So I love that when you make baked potatoes in the air fryer, they only take half that time. And they still come out fully cooked and delicious.

Deviled Egg Potato Salad

One of the main ingredients in a classic potato classic. And one of the most popular egg recipes is deviled eggs. So, we combined the two to make Deviled Egg Potato Salad.

This potato salad recipe is as good as it sounds and will be your new favorite.

Skillet Pumpkin Sauce Hash Browns

Hash browns take a bit of time to make it the oven. If you don’t have that kind of time, you can make them a lot quicker in a skillet.

And if you’re looking for a little pop of flavor to add to your hash browns, this pumpkin sauce is great.

Slow Cooker Potato Cheddar Soup

Potato soup is one of my favorite meals to make when the weather drops. It’s so warm and hearty and filling. Plus, the recipe makes a lot of soup, so you can enjoy it for days.

And, trust me. After you make this potato cheddar soup, you’ll never eat it from a can again.

Loaded Baked Potato Salad

Potato salad is a backyard barbecue staple, but it can sometimes be pretty bland. And then there are a ton of leftovers because no one wants to waste their stomach on bland food.

But, this loaded potato salad completely ups the game. Every time I’ve made it, every bite has been eaten (which is a bummer because I wouldn’t mind leftovers of that).

Hasselback Potatoes With Bacon

Hasselback potatoes are really fun. You slice the potato up, and then fill it with whatever deliciousness you can think of. Bacon and cheese are usually standard, but the recipe above was when we were featuring bacon on the blog, so we only stuffed it with bacon.

Parmesan Potato Rounds

I serve these potato rounds as a side dish at parties, just to have something a little substantial in people’s stomachs as they are hanging out.

You can cook them longer to make sure they’re all crispy, but the variation in textures really makes these delicious.

Cheesy Steak Fries

Homemade fries are so much better than store bought, especially when you go ahead of lather them in ranch, sour cream, and cheese. Chives and bacon are optional additions too.

These cheesy steak fries are definitely indulgent, and you’ll definitely be making them all the time.

Avocado Potato Salad

One of Pete’s specialties is avocado potato salad. The first time he made it for me was for the family barbecue he came to, so it’s really special.

Chunks of potato and avocado mix together in this dairy-free potato salad. It isn’t intentionally vegan, but ends up that way.

Mini Pommes Anna

We love these mini Pommes Anna, so I don’t know why I don’t make them more often. The prep time on them is pretty simple because you don’t have to peel the potatoes.

The recipe is basically just putting them in the oven and waiting for them to cook, so you have time to cook your full meal in between.

Homemade Waffle Fries

I love waffle fries and will order them as my side every time they’re on a menu. And that’s honestly the only reason I bought a mandoline slicer at a fair a zillion years ago. You can use it to make waffle fries.

The fries come out amazing every time, and you don’t even have to leave your kitchen to get some.

Air Fryer Potato Chips

One potato is all it takes to make two tasty servings of potato chips. And since potato chips are so easy to make in the air fryer, you may never buy potato chips again.

Baked Potato On The Grill

If you’re grilling dinner, make this Baked Potato On The Grill too. It’s easier than running to the oven to check on your sides when you’re making dinner on the grill.

Air Fryer French Fries

You can easily turn a couple potatoes into French fries quickly. These aren’t much harder to make than frozen fries and are so worth the extra effort … especially when you want fries, but don’t have a bag of frozen ones at home.

Grilled Garlic Parmesan Potatoes

If you’re looking for a potato recipe that you can make in bulk, this Grilled Garlic Parmesan Potatoes is it. You can make a ton at once, and the recipe is mostly hands off. You do have to chop the potatoes, but the cooking only involves tossing everything in a pan and setting that pan on a grill.