This recipe for grilled potatoes in foil packets is easy to make, and easy to clean up!
Best of all, these grilled new potatoes in foil packets are just 101 calories… Try this healthy recipe as a side dish on hot summer days when you don’t want to cook indoors.
This foil pack grilled potatoes recipe makes the perfect side dish when you’re grilling your dinner!
And this article will show you how to grill potatoes healthy, in our low calorie grilling tips.
These grilled potatoes in foil packets are just 101 calories…
Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets
This article will supply you with everything you need to make healthy barbecued potatoes.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find low calorie BBQ potatoes tips and tricks, and a nutrition label in the sections below.
Learn how to grill baby potatoes so they come out perfect every time in the helpful sections below…
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients for Foil Packet Potatoes on Grill (shopping list!)
- How to Cook Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets
- Low Calorie Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Potato Foil Packets On Grill
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these potato foil packs to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for baby potatoes on the grill…
Ingredients for Foil Packet Potatoes on Grill
These grilled potato packets are simple and easy… and especially easy to make low in calories, thanks to these helpfully tips!
Low Calorie Tips for Grilling Potatoes:
- Olive oil spray… skip the heavy butter and oil, and use light olive oil spray instead. It will stop the grill potatoes from sticking, and save you 100’s of calories and lots of fat!
- Boost the Flavor... with garlic and rosemary. These traditional flavors make any potato recipe taste amazing, and best of all… they don’t add any calories!
Shopping List for Grill Potatoes:
- Golden baby potatoes (New Potatoes)
- Head of garlic
- Olive oil spray
- Salt and pepper
- Fresh rosemary
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of new potatoes on the grill you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these foil potato packets can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how long to grill potatoes foil packet on grill…
How to Cook Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets
Making grill recipes foil packets is easy and effortless… and grilling potatoes in foil packets helps with clean up, and cooks the potatoes to perfection.
Below you will find the directions on how to make grilled potatoes in foil packets, but before we get these, here are some grilling items that will save you clean up!
Helpful BBQ Equipment for Making Foil Pack Potatoes:
How to Cook Potatoes on the Grill:
- Preheat the grill to high heat.
- Wash the potatoes, and add to a large piece of foil, or foil packet.
- Add the garlic, spray with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and rosemary.
- Close up the foil packet so that it is securely closed.
- Add the packet to the BBQ, and grill for 45-60 minutes, until the potatoes are soft in the center.
- Carefully (with oven mitts on, the steam is HOT) open the foil packet, and tumble the potatoes into a serving dish to stop the cooking.
- Serve hot, or cool and slice… these are wonderful in potato salad, over salads (in place of croutons) or just cold out of the fridge.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best grilled potatoes in foil packets…
Low Calorie Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets
These grilled potatoes in foil packets are just 101 calories and so easy to make… and to clean up!
I like to make extras so I can chop them (once they have cooled) and make my Low Calorie Potato Salad the next day.
Healthy Grilled Potatoes in Foil Packets
Equipment
- Foil, or Foil Packets
Ingredients
- 1 24-ounce bag unpeeled golden baby potatoes (New Potatoes)
- 1 head of garlic with 1/3 of the top trimmed off
- Olive oil spray
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to high heat.
- Wash the potatoes, and add to a large piece of foil, or foil packet.
- Add the garlic, spray with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and rosemary.
- Close up the foil packet so that it is securely closed.
- Add the packet to the BBQ, and grill for 45-60 minutes, until the potatoes are soft in the center.
- Carefully (with oven mitts on, the steam is HOT) open the foil packet, and tumble the potatoes into a serving dish to stop the cooking.
- Serve hot, or cool and slice… these are wonderful in potato salad, over salads (in place of croutons) or just cold out of the fridge.
Nutrition
Up next, nutrition and calories in grilled red potatoes and new potatoes…
Nutrition and Calories in Potato Foil Packets On Grill
We save 100’s of calories and lots of fat, thanks to our low calorie cooking tips (above in the “ingredients” section).
If you love this recipe… be sure to check out more low calorie BBQ recipes in the next section!
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