Roast Potatoes

Purpose

Recipe

Ingredients

• Potatoes
• Oil vegetable or sunflower
• Optional: salt
• Optional: garlic
• Water

Required utensils

• Potato peeler
• Knife preferably one intended for use in vegetable preparation
• Saucepan with lid
• Roasting tin
• Oven preheated to gas mark 7 - 8
• Optional: mortar and pestle or other garlic-crushing device.
• Oven gloves
• Optional: tablespoon

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 7.
2. Pour enough oil into the bottom of the roasting tin to leave a thin layer on the bottom and put it in the oven.

1. Peel the potatoes, unless they are new potatoes in which case you shouldn't be using them for roasting.
2. Slice the potatoes into quarters or eighths depending on the size of the potato. 20 cubic centimeters is the ideal size although variations are acceptable, depending on taste - smaller pieces tend to make crispier roast potatoes, larger pieces tend to make softer ones.
3. Put the potatoes in a saucepan of water and add a pinch of salt if you wish. Put the lid on.
4. Bring the saucepan to the boil and then allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Drain the potatoes.
6. Optional: crush up a clove or 2 of garlic and add to the potatoes at this point.
7. Replace the lid and shake the potatoes vigorously for 20-30 seconds.
8. Remove the roasting tin from the oven with the oven gloves and tip the potatoes from the saucepan into the tin.
9. Add some salt.
10. Replace the roasting tin in the oven.
11. Check after 20 - 25 minutes.
12. When the potatoes are golden brown, remove them from the oven.
13. Serve.

Notes

• Obviously the times & quantities are just rough and you can vary them to taste.
• The oil in the roasting tin will be well over 100°C: be extremely careful when handling the tin.
• I don't suggest that you use garlic the first time, it is not to everyone's taste.
• Halfway through roasting you may wish to remove the tin and move the potatoes with a spoon and/or spoon some of the oil from the bottom of the tin onto the potatoes
• They can also be cooked in the same roasting tin as the meat if being included as part of a roast dinner - they should go in half an hour before the meal is to be served. This may result in the meat being taken out of the tin and being replaced into the oven with just potatoes.

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