’tis the time of year for roast dinners and beautiful roast potatoes and vegetables, although in my house, a roast is welcome any time of year!!
When I married my husband, I promised to love and cherish him til death do us part….AND learn how to cook a perfect roast!! Maybe not quite as official as that, but it was something I knew he loved to eat and I wanted to learn to make a good roast dinner (as good as, if not better than his Mum’s!!) and now, both of my boys love nothing more than roast chicken with all the trimmings including perfect crispy roast potatoes. I remember the roast dinners of my childhood and the potatoes were always the star dish ⭐️
This weekend I made a roast for my boys and our visitors and took some photos and notes as I made the roast potatoes in case it may be of interest…
I’m sure everyone has their perfect method, this is just mine ☺️
Preheat the oven to 190C (170C fan). Peel the potatoes and place them in a large saucepan and cover with water.
Bring it to the boil and turn the heat down enough for the pot to continue to boil for a good 5 minutes, a bit longer is fine, this is just to par boil the potatoes though, not completely boil them
Then drain the potatoes and – this is the key – keeping them in the saucepan, give them a good shake and break up the outsides of the potatoes
Then leave to one side to cool in their own steam. You can leave them for as long or as short a time as you like. During this time, pour a shallow layer of vegetable oil into your roasting tin and put it into the top of the oven to heat up
When the oil is very hot, add the potatoes to the pan carefully. I do it one by one with tongs. Be careful not to splash yourself with hot oil
Then spoon oil over each potatoes
And roast in the top of the oven for 40-60 mins depending on the size of the potatoes. Yesterday these were in the oven for 50 minutes.
Halfway through, take the pan out and baste each potato with hot oil again then put back into the oven
I cooked the parsnips in exactly the same way, par boiling them, draining them and shaking them up before roasting them in hot oil
Yum indeed, that’s the method I use and it works every time.
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Yay!! Love it 😍😍
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Perfection! I could eat the whole lot right now!!! 🙂
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☺️☺️
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Ooo hot, crispy and delicious, tempura like heaven! 😛
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Thank you ☺️
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I agree with what you say, mmmmm……yum!!!!! Celeste 🙂
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Thank you ☺️
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Blisssss!!! For a potato-lover like me 🙂
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Thank you ☺️
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Wow, these look so crispy! Yum!
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☺️😉
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Just yummmmmmmy x
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Thank you xx
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I love rosemary roasted potatoes and my partner loves deep fried wedges…never gave it a go at home. I’m going to give this a try, the photos make me want to pluck one from the screen!
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Lovely, thank you ☺️☺️ hope you enjoy them x
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Gorgeous result.
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Thank you ☺️
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I always thought I will be able to lose weight if I could just stop loving potatoes. This recipe makes me want to continue my affair with potatoes, absolutely yummilicious…!!!!
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Sorry!!! But thank you 😉
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This is exactly what my Mum does! Crispy roast potatoes are the best 🙂
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Yay!!!! ☺️
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Your blog looks great ☺️ thank you for visiting mine today 😊
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I found you through superfoodista! Love discovering new blogs 🙂
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Ah, fabulous ☺️ it’s great fun isn’t it? I’m loving this new blogging world 😍
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Reblogged this on foodbod and commented:
This is an old post (as the photos show!) but it’s one of the most popular on my blog so I thought I’d reblog it…it’s the time of year for roast potatoes, so get them crispy!
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I love this method and your potatoes look perfectly crisp and delicious. Never thought to par boil what a great idea. Next time trying this method.
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Thank you 🙂 let me know how it goes x
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Yummm
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Crispy potatoes are hit at my place too!
Yours look perfect ❤️
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Thank you ❤️❤️
There’s never any left in our house, much to Bobs disdain…!!!
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they look delicious 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Yummy I love these.
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Thank you 🙂
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Yummmmmm this is brilliant!! xx
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Thank you honey x x x x x
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I love eating perfectly roasted potatoes but I have yet to master it myself lol. Love the addition of parsnip, definitely a veg I am going to try this out with.
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Good luck! I hope you enjoy them 🙂
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Yum, Yum, YUM! I do something like this with my oven fries, but I use a big glass bowl and the microwave! I want these right now! 🙂
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Aha! Interesting 🙂 thank you xx
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Mmmmm…yum is right!! Thanks for sharing…looking forward to trying these!
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Thank you, I hope you enjoy them 🙂
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Looks great 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Following you 🙂 hope you like mine too
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Thank you – yours looks great too 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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