Name: Crispy salt & pepper roasties
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2kg King Edward potato; 6 tbsp goose fat; 2 tbsp plain flour; flaky salt; ½ tbsp black peppercorns crushed; 6 tbsp vegetable oil

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Crispy salt & pepper roasties

Crispy salt & pepper roasties

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 1 hr - 1 hr and 20 mins

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Feed a crowd with these irresistibly crunchy roast potatoes, crisped to perfection with flour

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Ingredients

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2kg King Edward potato
6 tbsp goose fat
2 tbsp plain flour
flaky salt
½ tbsp black peppercorns

crushed
6 tbsp vegetable oil

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal360
fat18g
saturates4g
carbs43g
sugars1g
fibre3g
protein6g
salt0.3g

low

Method

step 1

Cut the potatoes into halves, quarters, or eighths if really large – you want to end up with even-sized 5cm pieces. Put the potatoes in a large pan of salted water. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 8-10 mins, until the outsides start to soften. To check, try scraping a potato with a fork – it should be easy to make a mark but you shouldn’t be able to slide it into the flesh. Drain really well, then shake in the pan to rough the potatoes up a bit. Add the goose fat and toss until coated. Chill until roasting. The potatoes will keep in the fridge for 3 days.
step 2

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Toss the potatoes with the flour, salt and crushed peppercorns (see below).
step 3

Place the oil in a roasting tin large enough to hold all the potatoes in one layer and heat in the oven for 5 mins. Quickly tip the potatoes in and return to the oven. Cook for 30 mins, turning once. When the turkey comes out of the oven, increase the heat to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Cook for 30-40 mins more or until crisp all over (you can do this while the turkey is resting). Sprinkle with salt to serve.

RECIPE TIPS

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The secret to perfect roast potatoes is to use goose fat for flavour plus vegetable oil to keep them nice and crisp.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2012

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