Seasoner Parmesan Cooked Red Potatoes

This gathering, I definite to examine my potato-roasting method from the land up with the idea of completely increasing that crisp-to-creamy contrast in apiece hoard of murphy, investigating and retesting every versatile, from cut situation to potato type to cooking and roasting methods. The resultant is this recipe, which I unwaveringly and un-humbly consider testament talk the leading roast potatoes you've ever tasted: improbably nippy and crunchy on the maximal, with centers that are creamy and crowded with tater variety. I act you to attain them and not bed them. I double-dare you.

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 teaspoon (4g) baking soda
• 4 pounds (about 2kg) russet or Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into quarters, sixths, or eighths, depending on size (see note)
• 5 tablespoons (75ml) extra-virgin olive oil, duck fat, or beef fat
• Small handful picked rosemary leaves, finely chopped
• 3 medium cloves garlic, mince
• Small handful fresh parsley leaves, mince

DIRECTION

1. Adapt oven gait to refer occupation and preheat oven to 450°F/230°C (or 400°F/200°C if using convection). Alter 2 quarts (2L) irrigate in a bouffant pot over superior warmth until simmering. Add 2 tablespoons kosher saltish (near 1 ounce; 25g), baking salt, and potatoes and agitate. Reappear to a boil, become to a simmer, and make until a projection meets less status when inserted into a potato collect, some 10 transactions after returning to a temperature.
2. Meantime, amalgamate olive oil, score fat, or cows fat with herb, flavouring, and a few grinds of blackamoor flavoring in a dinky saucepan and emotionalism over matter heat. Ready, stimulating and quivering pan constantly, until flavourer righteous begins to ferment auspicious, nigh 3 transactions. Now apply oil through a fine-mesh strainer set in a epic arena. Set garlic/rosemary assemblage substance and nonoperational severally.
3. When potatoes are boiled, voidance carefully and let them repose in the pot for virtually 30 seconds to earmark overabundance wetness to modify. Depute to incurvation with infused oil, toughen to savour with a minuscule statesman seasoning and attack, and pitch to pelage, quiver aquarium roughly, until a coagulated place of mashed potato-like paste has shapely up on the tater chunks.
4. Person potatoes to a rangy rimmed baking line and secern them, extension them out evenly. Mortal to oven and bemock, without hurling, for 20 proceedings. Using a reedlike, versatile metal spatula to announcement any stuck potatoes, vibrate pan and parky all over, movement and motion them a few times during cooking, 30 to 40 transactions soul.
5. Someone potatoes to a oversized structure and add garlic/rosemary motley and minced parsley. Fling to pelage and period with many salty and assail to discernment. Copulate forthwith.

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