Roast Potatoes

Roast Potatoes also known colloquially as 'roasties'

Purpose

Roast potatoes are usually used as the prime potato-based accompaniment to a roast dinner (usually made up of a roast meat and several different vegetables). Some people, however, prefer to make and eat them by themselves.

Recipe

Ingredients

• Potatoes
• Oil vegetable or sunflower
• Optional: salt
• Optional: garlic
• Water

Required utensils

• Potato peeler
• Knife preferably one intended for use in vegetable preparation
• Saucepan with lid
• Roasting tin
• Oven preheated to gas mark 7 - 8
• Optional: mortar and pestle or other garlic-crushing device.
• tablespoon

Instructions

• 1. Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 7.
  2. Pour enough oil into the bottom of the roasting tin to leave a thin layer on the bottom and put it in the oven.

1. Peel the potatoes, unless they are C: be extremely careful when handling the tin.

• I don't suggest that you use garlic the first time, it is not to everyone's taste.
• Halfway through roasting you may wish to remove the tin and move the potatoes with a spoon and/or spoon some of the oil from the bottom of the tin onto the potatoes
• They can also be cooked in the same roasting tin as the meat if being included as part of a roast dinner - they should go in half an hour before the meal is to be served. This may result in the meat being taken out of the tin and being replaced into the oven with just potatoes.