So originally I was going to post about how this Australian billionaire is rebuilding the Titanic, but my mom suggested that I should post some of my recipes here. So I took the hint and decided to tell you guys how to make my oven roasted potatoes. They are super easy, and don't take too terribly long and taste absolutely fantastic. Also these are dairy free, gluten free, soy free, meat free, so they are awesome to bring to potlucks because odds are everyone can eat them.
Elaina's Oven Roasted Potatoes
What you'll need
Food:
1 pound of potatoes
1/2 a bunch of
rosemary
1/2 a bunch of thyme
2 cloves of garlic or 4 large spoons of pre-minced garlic
Extra Virgin Olive
Oil
Salt (sea salt is
best)
Black pepper
Equipment:
Cutting board
Chef’s knife, or other knife
Large mixing bowl
Large cast iron skillet*
*if you don’t have
a cast iron skillet, or another skillet you can put into the oven you can still
do this recipe with a regular skillet and a cookie sheet.
Looks good don't they? We'll lets get down to how to make them.
First things first, you will of course need some potatoes, I generally use red potatoes, or a bag of mixed potatoes I usually use about 1 pound, unless I am bringing them to a party or something, then I always at least double it as they tend to go quick.
After you wash the potatoes you want to chop up the potatoes into small, bit sized pieces. If your using baby potatoes like I did just chop them into half, and then each half into fourths. You may also want to start pre-heating your oven to 425.
Toss all of the chopped potatoes into a large bowl. You will ant the bowl to be slightly bigger than necessary so you can toss the potatoes to coat them in the nummy seasonings.
Next take rosemary, and thyme. you'll use about 1/2 of each bunch for this. The easiest way to get the rosemary loose is just to peel it backwards. If you don't know what that means its quite simple. Just take a sprig, and slide your hand down, starting at the top. This will cause most of the pieces of rosemary to come off of the stick. This also works with the thyme. There's no need to chop them up, just toss them in the bowl with the potatoes.
Then either chop up your garlic into pieces, or add in the scoops of garlic ( you can adjust this on how much you like garlic, I really like garlic, so I add a lot). Then add in salt and pepper to taste, finally add in the olive oil, you will only want to add enough to just coat the potatoes. Toss the potatoes until all the herbs and seasoning have coated them each well.
Let your potatoes brown on one side, then place your skillet in the oven ( or if your using a pan that you don't want to put into the oven, transfer the potatoes to a cookie sheet. bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes, but check back in on them a few times to flip them over so that the other sides get crispy too.
After that pull them outta the oven and let them cool off a touch before stuffing your face with them.
Any who that's it. Pretty easy, but if you have any questions, or if you make any alterations feel free to let me know in the comments.
Enjoy
Elaina
