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Heston's roast potatoes
‘A great roast potato should be crisp and crunchy on the outside, and soft and fluffy on the inside, with hints of garlic, rosemary and thyme – exactly what this recipe delivers.’ Heston
- Preparation time: 25 minutes
- Cooking time: 2 hours
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Total time:
2 hours 25 minutes
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
2.5kg large Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters (roughly the same size)
10 rosemary sprigs
14 thyme sprigs
18 cloves garlic, bashed with a knife
500g beef dripping
500g olive oil
Herb salt
20g salt
5 sage leaves
½ rosemary sprig leaves picked
1 thyme sprig
2 juniper berries
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4. Put the potatoes in a colander and hold under running water for 5 minutes to wash off the starch. Drain, place in a large pan, then cover with cold water. Add 2 rosemary sprigs, 6 thyme sprigs, and 2 bashed garlic cloves. Bring to the boil, then simmer until very soft and starting to crumble (about 25–30 minutes). Drain carefully; leave to cool completely in the coriander.
2. Put the beef dripping and olive oil in a roasting tray large enough to hold all the potatoes in a single layer. Put in the oven for 15 minutes (once melted the fat should come about 0.5cm up the sides). Add the potatoes to the tray with the remaining garlic cloves. Stir to coat in the oil and place back in the oven for 1 hour, gently turning every 20 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, for the herb salt, grind the salt, sage leaves, rosemary leaves, thyme and juniper in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle to a fine powder.
4. After 1 hour, add the remaining rosemary and thyme to the potatoes; return to the oven for 20–30 minutes or until the potatoes are golden brown and crispy. Drain on kitchen paper and season with 4 tsp herb salt to serve.
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This recipe was first published in December 2013.
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