A Nutty Mom

When it comes to making roast potatoes, striving crispy skins surrounding a light and fluffy middle, dripping with delicious olive oil and meat fats, are widely regarded as being most desirable.
Whilst you may consider creating roast potatoes a difficult task, there are plenty of tips and pointers on how to make perfect tatties – and here are a few of them:
Goose fat
Roast potatoes are particularly delicious and tasty when cooked in goose fat. Whilst covering your spuds with lavish amount of goose fat may sound particularly unhealthy, you will be pleased to learn that goose fat is in actual fact the healthiest of all animal fats. It is high in healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and low in unhealthy saturated fatty acids.
To achieve irresistible roast potatoes dripping with the healthiest of animal fats in existence, soften your roasties as normal and once drained place them in a large shallow oven-proof dish before leaving them on the top shelf of the oven for 1 hour.
If you don’t have an hour to invest in the cooking of roast potatoes then there are plenty of readymade options available – as the latest advertisement from Aunt Bessie’s reminds us. Their oven cook roast potatoes, which are basted in goose fat for “added roastiness” are a great option and mean that you can have perfect potatoes in next to no time.
Add garlic
Another great way to improve your potatoes is to add garlic. Roast potatoes that have been doused in a generous amount of garlic take on a particularly flavoursome edge.
Once you have softened your potatoes by boiling them in a saucepan, drain them and place in hot oil and sprinkle with salt, pepper and garlic granules. The heat of the oven will infuse the flavours when they are cooked resulting in mouth-watering roasties that are simply irresistible.
If you are especially keen on garlic-laden spuds then you can give your roasties an additional burst of garlic by cutting a small slit in them and stuffing a quarter of a garlic clove inside.
Add lemon, thyme and rosemary
If you want to make your roast potatoes particularly memorable this Christmas then adding some lemon, thyme and rosemary certainly wouldn’t go astray.
This Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall favourite can be produced relatively simply by scattering lemon slices, garlic, thyme and rosemary over the potatoes and then drizzling the mix with a healthy dose of olive oil.
Mix the lot with your hands, ensuring that each potato has a generous coating before seasoning with salt and pepper and baking in the oven for approximately 40 minutes.