Best/Easiest Roast Potato Recipe

ClaireBearClaire

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anybody has a reliable recipe for roast potatoes? I tried to make them last year for Xmas but they never turned golden in the oven despite being in there for nearly an hour! Hoping to try another recipe and do a dummy run before the big day. Thanks!

TadleyBaggie

I use my Ninja, pressure cook them for 8 minutes. Then baste with fat and then air fry for 25 minutes.

Emmia

In the oven heat up a tray of sunflower/ vegetable oil or duck or goose fat (usually it's goose/duck unless I've got vegetarians eating)

Peel and cut the potatoes into roastie size

Parboil for 10 mins,.drain water out of the pan,

Holding the lid on the pan, shake the pan a bit to rough the spuds up.

Remove fat from oven, pour into the pan of roughed up potatoes.

Immediately pour the oil and potatoes back into the roasting tray, and put immediately back into the oven. Cook for 30 mins...  Or longer if you've done big ones!

The key is ensuring the fat / spuds are kept as hot as possible.

Rosa_Damascena

ClaireBearClaire said:

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anybody has a reliable recipe for roast potatoes? I tried to make them last year for Xmas but they never turned golden in the oven despite being in there for nearly an hour! Hoping to try another recipe and do a dummy run before the big day. Thanks!

The causes could have been either one / both of the following:

• Your oven simply wasn't hot enough
• Your spuds weren't coated in fat

Zinger549

What temperature did you have the oven on? I par boil mine for 10 mins. Drain the water then shake them so they rough up. I use olive oil for fat and put the dish in the oven for 5 minutes  before the potatoes have par boiled to heat up the fat. Then just put the spuds in the dish and in the oven for 1 hour. The oven needs to be on a high heat 180+

Brie

Aunt Bessies?  

I used to do them proper which was to parboil, rinse under cold water to make them easy to handle.  And then scrape them with a fork.  Then they went into a pan with a good deal of fat (duck, beef, whatever) and give them a good shake to coat well.  Roast for about 20 minutes, take out and shake.  Back in another 20 ish minutes at 200 maybe?  Good to go.  

fatbelly

ClaireBearClaire said:

Hello everyone,

I was just wondering if anybody has a reliable recipe for roast potatoes? I tried to make them last year for Xmas but they never turned golden in the oven despite being in there for nearly an hour! Hoping to try another recipe and do a dummy run before the big day. Thanks!

I boil them for 5 mins, drain and shake them to roughen up the outside then cover in oil and roast for an hour at 180

Some varieties roast better than others but at this time of year it should be the maincrop varieties and they should be fine

-taff

What Emmia does except I leave them in for an hour or more and turn them a few times, after the first 30 mins, then every fiftenn/twenty mintues.  I use goose fat or lard or a mixture of the two, or sometimes olive oil as well, whatever I have but lard and goose fat, one or the other , always.

JIL

I sometimes make jacket potatoes on the Saturday and then remove the skin.
Then I toss the already baked potatoes in a little oil and salt and either airfry or bake
Just seems to give a more intense flavour.

Most of the time I do as others describe but I use oil with a little butter. 
I prefer red potatoes or maris piper.

Something I did see with aunt Bessie roast potatoes was adding a red onion. Just for the home made look.