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TL;DR: 

  • Emily Blunt’s roasted potatoes are made using five ingredients and a four-step process.
  • Ina Garten’s Garlic Roasted Potatoes have similar ingredients. 
  • The major difference between the two recipes is the Jungle Cruise star shakes the potatoes in a pot.
Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten and Emily Blunt smile
(L-R) Ina Garten in 2017 and Emily Blunt in 2019 | Noam Galai/WireImage; John Lamparski/Getty Images

Emily Blunt’s roasted potatoes are similar to Ina Garten’s roasted potatoes. Blunt, who once joined Garten on Barefoot Contessa, even gave the cookbook author a copy of her recipe. In turn, Garten shared the details with fans and, as a result, her website crashed. 

Ina Garten’s Garlic Roasted Potatoes and Emily Blunt’s roasted potatoes have some of the same ingredients

Garten and The Devil Wears Prada alum’s ingredient lists overlap. According to the Barefoot Contessa’s recipe (Food Network has all the details), she uses six ingredients to make her Garlic Roasted Potatoes. They are as follows: red or white potatoes, “good” olive oil, kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, parsley, and minced garlic. 

Seeing as they’re making the same dish, Garten and Blunt’s recipes feature a few of the same ingredients. Per Garten’s official Barefoot Contessa website, the star of Mary Poppins Returns uses salt, oil, and, of course, potatoes to make her English Roasted Potatoes. 

While they use the same ingredients, they do differ slightly. For example, Blunt’s recipe calls for vegetable oil. Meanwhile, Garten uses “good” olive oil. Blunt also uses two different types of salt, fleur de sel and kosher salt. 

Emily Blunt’s roasted potatoes involve a 4-step cooking process

Check out Blunt’s roasted potatoes video (above) and see how exactly she makes them from start to finish. While the oven heats to 425 degrees Fahrenheit, she brings a large pot of water to boil with kosher salt. Then she adds the potatoes. 

Next, she waits for the water to once again boil. At this point, she turns the heat down, leaving the potatoes to simmer for eight minutes. Then she drains the water from the pot and roughly shakes the pot — with the lid on — to “rough up the edges.” 

Blunt transfers the potatoes to a baking sheet layered with a cooling rack on top. She arranges them in one layer and sets them aside to dry for a minimum of 15 minutes. When the potatoes are dry, the actor pours vegetable oil on a baking sheet, turning the pan to make sure the oil evenly coats the base. 

Overall, Blunt and Garten have similar roasted potato recipes. They use some of the same ingredients, but their cooking methods differ slightly. 

Then Blunt puts the baking sheet in the oven for five minutes until the oil is hot. Next, she carefully puts the potatoes on the baking sheet and roasts them in a 325-degree Fahrenheit oven for 45 minutes to one hour. 

Finally, she transfers them to a serving tray and sprinkles them with parsley and salt before serving. 

How to make the Barefoot Contessa’s roasted potatoes 

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As for Garten’s Garlic Roasted Potatoes, she takes a simpler approach. The Modern Comfort Food author makes her popular potato recipe in three steps. She heats the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Then she gets to work n flavoring the potatoes. 

Garten dices the potatoes and puts them in a bowl before tossing them with salt, pepper, olive oil, and garlic. After spreading them out on a baking sheet, she puts them in the oven to roast for 45 minutes to an hour. When they’re golden brown and crisp, she takes them out of the oven and sprinkles them with parsley. 

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