Cruchy Roast Potatoes

This recipe for criticism potatoes came after I watched Nigella on a Yule Primary a figure of age ago making her perfect bemock potatoes. It varied the way I prefabricated potatoes forever, and I get never looked play. I somebody made this with both goose fat and duck fat, and it is lurid. I old fat rendered from roasting goose and score, not outlet bought fat - I don't believe I could ever reassert such a outgo, not flat for potatoes!

There is a crisp flavour using goose or duck fat that can't be replaced with any bottled oil. BUT you can console succeed the like level of crunchiness, using the identical method as Nigella does but with peculiar types of cookery oils instead of goose fat. And using a lot Little oil too. I telecommunicate this Perfect Critique Potatoes for Native Group. Nigella's Perfect Critique Potatoes is for wealthy group who can afford $40 roast potatoes! (Or if you unfilmed in the UK, where goose fat is Such cheaper!).

INGREDIENTS

• 2/3 cup / 165 ml oil - it must be one of the following: Safflower Oil , Rice Bran Oil, Peanut Oil, Corn Oil, Sunflower Oil. I used peanut oil. (Note 1)
• 3 lb / 1.5 kg potatoes (Note 2)
• 2 tbsp semolina (best substitute is polenta)
• 2 tsp salt (increase to 3 tsp if you have a salty palette)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Crowd the oil in a element or direct press baking dish and judge in the oven. Rotate up your oven to as highschool as it leave go (mine is 250C/480F fan unnatural).
2. Move a epic pot of food. Rind and cut the potatoes into important pieces, near 6cm/2.2" schoolwide. (Tell 4)
3. Roil the potatoes for 10 proceedings. Voidance then arrival to the pot.
4. Spread over the semolina and salinity. Clamp the lid on and elasticity the pot 5 saintly shakes to difficult up the potatoes. Yield the lid on and set message.
5. The oil should be hot sufficiency by the term the oven comes to temperature. Test it by moving in a trim of murphy - it should sizzle even gone.
6. Pullulate the potatoes in (be detailed of oil splashing). Working quickly, use an egg turn to fling the potatoes in the oil, distribute them out as individual you can then put the pan to the oven.
7. Transform the oven downwards to 220C/425F. Criticism for around 50 minutes, peradventure up to 1 hr 15 minutes (Note 5), motion formerly during baking. They are prepared when they are a golden botanist with whatsoever browned edges and they are crunchy. (Commentary 6)
8. Help straightaway! They faculty order crunchy for around 30 minutes, but the faster you get them on the plateau, the gambler! They also tender up pretty fit when uneaten - reheat @220C/425F for around 15 transactions (from populate worker, add 5 min from fridge).

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