Wots the best/tastiest way of cooking roast potatoes?

Question

Wots the best/tastiest way of cooking roast potatoes?

Answer 1

roast them with garlic/herbs and onions its lush seriuosly!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Roast as normal but about 30 mins before they are done, sprinkle ground cinammon on them. Delicious.

Answer 3

Roast potatoes  

   Serves 8-10  



Preparation time less than 30 mins

Cooking time 1 to 2 hours

  







A classic recipe that will give you perfect potatoes every time.

Ingredients

1kg/2½lb floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper

olive oil or goose fat

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.

2. Peel the potatoes and cut into large chunks. Parboil in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. Drain and toss in the pan to roughen the edges.

3. Put a generous amount of olive oil or goose fat in a roasting tin and put in oven, until smoking. Carefully take the tin out of the oven and add the potatoes to the hot fat, basting them as you do so.

4. Put the tin back in the oven and cook for about 1 hour until the roast potatoes are golden and crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. Turn them over from time to time whilst they are cooking to make sure they colour on all sides.

Answer 4

Boil them for a few minutes, drain and shake them to buff up the edges (this makes them crispy) then roast them in the oven in goose fat.  Tastiest tatties by far!

Answer 5

Cook them with a bit of lard. Not the healthiest option but they taste absolutely beautiful. And it makes them go lovely and crispy....Tastes nicer than goose fat too..

Answer 6

Boil them for 5 mins in salty water, then drain then off and add some Soy Sauce to the pan and shake well, then put them in a hot roasting tin in a little oil or fat for 25 mins, lovely

Answer 7

use goose / duck fat, heat it in the tray in the oven, then put part boiled potatos in it and baste. put them in on a high heat, 220 for example for about 30 minutes. it will make them crispy and the taste is amazing (maris piper spuds are good for it) you can also add onion and parsnip to oil and add the potatos if you dont want to use fat. that tatses good too.

Answer 8

Choosing a good red skinned variety, 10 minutes of parboiling , good quality olive oil and a very hot oven.  Those 4 things will guarantee you perfect roast potatoes.

Answer 9

heat some oil in a roasting tray tray in the oven

part boil potatoes for 5-8 Min's or until they go soft on the outside,

then rustle them up with a fork, throw a bit of salt(not too much) over the potatoes.

wack them in the hot oil.

bake for approximately 1 hour

done

Answer 10

forget all the goose fat, just half boil them, then place them next to a meat joint and roast' basking now and then

just like your grandmother

Answer 11

lightly cover them in mustard before roasting  

Answer 12

Garlic - whole cloves slightly crushed in the pan, sprigs of rosemary in the roasting pan, beef dripping or goose fat to roast....yum yum!

Answer 13

My friend cooks the best roasties you will ever find .... she part boils them first then puts them (with a bit of salt spinkled over them) in the with the roasting joint about halfway through the roast cooking, turning regularly to stop them burning and sticking to the pan .... they're to die for with a lovely texture and lovely crispy edges .....:)

Answer 14

Current favourite seems to be to do them in goose fat. Not tried them done that way myself, but apparently they're lovely.

Answer 15

It depends how you like your roast potatoes. I like them to be crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. If you like them like this then this is for you.

1) Peel your potatoes

2) Place in a saucepan of cold salted water and heat on full heat until the water comes to the boil

3) Lower the heat to approximately 50% and simmer the potatoes. You need to keep checking the potatoes with the end of a sharp knife to see how soft they are. You need to keep doing this until the knife slides in like the potato is butter but before the potato falls apart

4) Put the lid on the saucepan and drain the water off

5) Keep the lid on the saucepan and give it a shake to 'bash' the potatoes up a bit (this will make them crispy when cooked)

6) Heat sunflower oil in a baking tray at 200F and add the potatoes to the hot oil

7) Cook for approximately 60 minutes. Check the potatoes every 10-15 minutes making sure that you turn them to cook them evenly.

The only way, in my opinion, to better this flavour is to do exactly the same process but cook the potatoes in a roasting tin with a joint of roast beef. The juice from the beef is awesome.

Writing this has made me hungry. :)