These Traeger Smoked Baked Potatoes make the perfect classic side dish! They are creamy on the inside with deliciously crispy skin on the outside. Finish them off with all of your favorite toppings and serve them alongside smoked chicken, pork, or beef!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- This is such an easy, hands off recipe! Aside from quickly prepping the potatoes, this baked potato recipe is so easy and can be made right alongside your favorite grilled protein like this Traeger Smoked Flank Steak.
- This recipe is so versatile! Not only can you switch up the toppings to make these smoked potatoes however you desire but the cooking time and temperature can be changed as well to cook along with your main dish!
- These potatoes have a great smokey flavor! The smoke flavor that your Traeger Pellet Grill gives these potatoes is unmatched! It adds an extra level of flavor to all of the delicious toppings you can add!
- Baked potatoes are a classic! This is the perfect year round side dish that goes well with any main dish! You can even stuff these potatoes with shredded meat, like this shredded buffalo chicken or these pork carnitas, to make a complete meal!
Ingredients Needed
For Smoked Potatoes
For Potato Toppings
Ingredient Notes
- Russet Potatoes - Use potatoes that are uniform in size for more even smoking! This recipe would be great for smoking sweet potatoes as well.
- Avocado Oil - You can substitute avocado oil for olive oil.
- Toppings - Complete these potatoes with your favorite toppings. Sour cream, chives, shredded cheese, or bacon crumbles are great options!
How To Make This Recipe
Clean and prep the potatoes.
- Scrub each potato clean and pat dry.
- Using a fork or sharp knife pierce each potato on all sides.
- Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and drizzle with the oil and then sprinkle with the salt and pepper.
Season the potatoes and preheat the Traeger.
- Use your hands to massage the oil and spices into each potato making sure they are well coated.
- Preheat your Traeger or other pellet grill to 250 degrees F.
- Place the potatoes directly on the grill grates and smoke for 2.5-3 hours or until the potatoes are fork tender.
Complete the smoke and serve!
- Flip the potatoes once during their cook.
- Remove the potatoes from the smoker and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving with your favorite toppings!
*Note - You can increase the temperature for a quicker cook, however, you will lose a bit of the smoke flavor. To cook these potatoes hot and fast, I recommend setting the Traeger to 450 degrees F and grilling for 45 minutes to one hour or until fork tender.
Recipe Tips
- Choose uniform potatoes in shape and size for even cooking
- You can increase the temperature for a quicker cook, however, you will lose a bit of the smoke flavor. To cook these potatoes hot and fast, I recommend setting the Traeger to 450 degrees F and grilling for about 45 minutes or until fork tender.
- Grill these potatoes right alongside your favorite grilled meat. You can adjust the temperature to whatever temp your main course will be cooking at.
How To Serve These Baked Potatoes
These potatoes make the perfect BBQ side dish. They are so easy and versatile and can be served in a number of ways with countless meats, cuts of beef, and main dishes!
Here are some delicious toppings that go great with these smoked baked potatoes:
- Grass-fed butter
- Sour cream
- Grass-fed shredded cheddar cheese
- Bacon crumbles
- Chives
- Salt and pepper
This recipe also goes great served with any of these dishes:
Reverse Sear Smoked Tomahawk Steak
Traeger Smoked Chicken Breast
Smoked Jerk Chicken
Instant Pot Shredded Buffalo Chicken - Stuff these potatoes with this chicken and drizzle with ranch. YUM!
Recipe FAQ’s
While these potatoes can be made ahead of time, I recommend serving them immediately to ensure the skin is still crispy. Storing baked potatoes will cause the skin to shrink and become a bit soggy. However, you can always use these potatoes to make twice baked potatoes the day after smoking them!
Baked potatoes are typically done when they are cooked to an internal temperature of around 210 degrees F. However, you can easily tell their doneness by piercing them with a fork and removing them from the grill once tender and soft in the middle.
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📖 Recipe
Traeger Baked Potatoes
Equipment
- Traeger or Pellet Grill
Ingredients
- 6 large russet potatoes
- 3 tbsp avocado oil
- 1 tbsp salt
- ½ tbsp pepper
Toppings, as desired
- butter
- sour cream
- shredded cheese
- chives chopped
- parsley chopped
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Scrub each potato clean and pat dry.
- Using a fork or sharp knife pierce each potato on all sides.
- Place the potatoes on a baking sheet and drizzle with the oil and then sprinkle with the salt and pepper. Use your hands to massage the oil and spices into each potato making sure they are well coated.
- Preheat your traeger or other pellet grill to 250 degrees F. See notes below for altering temperature and cooking time.
- Place the potatoes directly on the grill grates and smoke for 2.5-3 hours or until the potatoes are fork tender, flipping the potatoes once during the cook.
- Remove the potatoes from the smoker and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving with your favorite toppings!
Notes
- Russet Potatoes - Use potatoes that are uniform in size for more even smoking!
- Avocado Oil - This can be substituted for olive oil.
- You can increase the temperature for a quicker cook, however, you will lose a bit of the smoke flavor. To cook these potatoes hot and fast, I recommend setting the traeger to 450 degrees F and grilling for 45 minutes to one hour or until fork tender.
- These potatoes can be cooked at whatever temperature you are smoking your meat, adjust cooking time as needed to ensure the inside of the potato is tender and soft.
- Baked potatoes are typically done when they are cooked to an internal temperature of around 210 degrees F.
- These potatoes will go well with any wood pellet flavor you choose! You can also base your pellet decision on the type of meat you are smoking alongside the potatoes. Cherry, mesquite, apple, and hickory are all great choices!
- The nutrition facts below are based on one full large smoked potato without toppings.
Nutrition
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