Roast potatoes

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:01:53 GMT

Step 1

Peel the potatoes and chop into even sized chunks. Put in a saucepan and cover with boiling water. Bring to the boil. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 220degC. Choose a roasting dish (preferably metal), big enough for the potatoes to be spread out in it, add enough olive oil to cover the base, put in the oven to heat up for 3-5 minutes. Check the potatoes by scoring the point of a knife across the face of one. When they start to soften just on the outside (about 5mins boiling), take them off and drain them. Do not cook too much. Replace in the hot pan, hold a lid on and shake up and down 2-3 times. This roughens up the outsides, which helps make them crispy. Take the pan with the now hot oil out of the oven and tip the potatoes in. Use a large spoon to stir and turn them (without breaking then up), so they get coated in oil. You can also tip the pan so excess oil runs to the corner, and spoon it back over the potatoes. Put in the hot oven for 30mins. Turn them over and then roast for about another 20mins or until turning brown and crispy. Best served hot from the oven without sitting for too long, and don't cover them or they will steam and go soft. If they've cooled too much before everything else is ready to eat, you can pop them back in the oven to get hot again. Voila!

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