- 6
Ingredients
- 6 large potatoes
- 1/4 c olive oil
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- pepper
- caraway seeds - optional
- paprika- optional
Preparation
Step 1
I could talk about potatoes for hours, there are countless stories I could tell you about these tasty vegetables, funny stories, delicious stories, they make me smile and ultimately they make me realize we really eat a lot of potatoes!
I love them in any form possible : boiled, roasted, grilled, raw, sliced, grated, roasted in the skins without skins, potato sauerkraut kielbasa casserole, boiled with skins and then peeled, sliced and lightly salted, or with a cup of milk and loads of butter or with salted sour cream...
I like roasted potatoes but they take so long to make so I started to par-cook them before I roast them in the oven. They are so much better than fries, in my opinion.
Par-cooking really helps, it cuts on the roasting time so they are easy to prepare any time of the week.
You par-cook potatoes by boiling them in water for couple of minutes.
Why Par-Cooking Potatoes makes crispier roasted potatoes ?
While
you simmer peeled, sliced, cut up potatoes in the water, starch and
sugar from potatoes is drawn to the surface of the potatoes and then in
the oven sugar and starch will create a nice crisp shell around the
potatoes.
I was feeling little hearty and made heart shaped roasted potatoes, by all means you don't have to do this,(it takes some time *) though they are so cute, would be perfect for Valentine's Day Dinner. Normally I just cut potatoes into cubes to save time.
* you can also make cubes and only few heart ones, one or 2 hearts will add a little flare to your dinner plate too, doesn't have to be the whole bunch of hearts, little heart goes a long way.
Make Heart Cutouts
Preheat oven to 400F.
Fill a pot with about 1quart -2quarts of water, add 1tbl salt, bring to boil, then reduce heat to gentle simmer.
In the meantime peel potatoes, slice them, using a small metal cookie cutter cut out as many hearts as you can. Reserve scraps in water, you can also par-cook scraps or make mashed potatoes
Cook potatoes in simmering water for 3 minutes, drain potatoes and let cool slightly.
Combine all the ingredients for the marinade : olive oil, salt, caraway seed, pepper, paprika.
Pour marinade over potatoes, stir and let sit for 5 minutes.
If your oven has a broiler, broil potatoes for additional 5 minutes or until they are golden on brown.
Variations
You can also add garlic, just make sure you add the garlic no more than 1 minute before you plan to take the potatoes out of the oven, otherwise garlic can burn and it will become bitter.
I also like to roast potatoes with couple of bay leaves and peppercorn, adding garlic at the end. That is my dad's recipe.
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