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How To Make Roast Potatoes

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How To Make Roast Potatoes
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Roast Potatoes Recipe. A perfect accompaniment to meat, fish or vegetarian dishes. What is Sunday lunch like without Roast Potatoes. Devour our Roast Potatoes recipe. Enlarge Roast Potatoes Recipe. A perfect accompaniment to meat, fish or vegetarian dishes. What is Sunday lunch like without Roast Potatoes. Devour our Roast Potatoes recipe.
Serves:
6 people
Preparation Time:
5 minutes
Cooking Time:
1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 20 minutes

Step 1: Prepare the potatoes

  • 8 large floury potatoes
  • 100 ml vegetable or olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 large saucepan
  • 1 large roasting tin
  • 1 peeler
  • 1 fork

Once you have peeled all of the potatoes cut them into egg-sized pieces.

Step 3: Boil the potatoes

Gently, bring them to the boil and let them cook for about 8 minutes. Don't leave them to cook entirely.

Step 4: Drain the water

Using the lid of the saucepan to stop the potatoes from falling out, drain the water away and let the potatoes cool completely.

Step 5: Prepare the roasting tin

Meanwhile, pour enough oil into the roasting tin so that the bottom is covered and place it onto a high tray in the oven to heat thoroughly.

Step 6: Heat the oven

Set the oven to 250ºC or gas mark 7 and begin to heat the oil.

Step 7: Scratch the potatoes

Once cooled, scratch the surface of the potatoes with a fork.

Step 8: Add the potatoes

When you see that the oil is sizzling hot, place the potatoes into the roasting tin. Turn them over in the oil to make sure they are covered before cooking.

Step 9: Leave the potatoes to cook

Allow the potatoes to cook for 50-60 minutes. About halfway through the time, turn them over to make sure all sides get a crispy finish.

Step 10: Check the potatoes

After the time is up, take a look to see what colour the potatoes are. They should end up a golden-brown, be crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

Step 11: Drain well and serve up

Remove the roast potatoes from the tin making sure that they don't carry too much oil and you're ready to serve up. Add salt and pepper to taste, and enjoy!
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Tips & Comments
  1. Cooking4Fun

    Cooked this with roasted chicken for Sunday meal, what a delight! Kept some for tomorrow's lunch.

  2. Alexleigh

    this looks really easy am gunna try this for xmas dnner this year instead of using packet roast potatoes!!

  4. sokomooo

    this looks so easy i like it excellent!

  5. loopy_bear

    Excellent very tasty. Do you need to add pinch of salt into the potatoes during the boiling? Many thanks.

  6. cahaciti6132009

    First food make that looks good and tasty without eggs or meat in it.

  7. EvilKatana

    Tested once and the result was more than perfect ! I highly suggest everyone to make their roasted potatoes that way ! Longer to prepare, but sooo great ! You won't regret it and adopt this recipe !

  8. vantigo

    I've heard the same thing, student. That's what they tell us to do at work. Perhaps because heat makes things expand, and when things expand and contract a lot, they break. Qwerty, if you have a logical point to make for either side, we would prefer to hear that to baseless personal attacks.

  9. qwerty1234500000

    u thick idiot!! condition your pipes? do u actually know what you are saying? do you think that hoteliers, restaurants, any f**ker actually thinks "hmm, why don't we condition our pipes as pouring boiling liquid down the drain will surely rot the pipe away. i can see why ur a student1

  10. Joblot

    you say I need salt and pepper in the video for roast potato but don't say when or where to use it