Mary Berry names simple ingredient to make roast potatoes 'extra crunchy'

Mary Berry has shared her concealed to making the cleanable roast potatoes each clip - and it's each to bash with 1 elemental constituent which volition instrumentality this starchy staple to the adjacent level

Roast potatoes are a Sunday dinner staple - and there's a elemental instrumentality to marque them adjacent much scrumptious.

If not prepared properly, roasties tin crook retired soggy, tasteless oregon adjacent rock-hard. But Mary Berry has revealed that cooking roast potatoes doesn't person to beryllium a challenge, with her concealed constituent being semolina to heighten this starchy broadside dish.

In her cookbook 'Love to Cook', Mary Berry divulged her method for cleanable parsnips involves adding semolina for a "lovely crispy outside", a method that besides works wonders connected roast potatoes.

She penned: "With the summation of semolina, these aureate parsnips go other crisp successful the oven. Throw immoderate successful with your roast potatoes for thing a spot antithetic this Sunday."

Semolina is simply a benignant of flour that absorbs moisture and lipid during cooking, which helps adust retired the murphy tegument and forms a bladed oily furniture astir the potatoes, making them adjacent tastier. Dusting your roast potatoes successful semolina besides stops them from sticking to the baking tray, ensuring they navigator evenly to execute a aureate exterior and fluffy interior.

According to Mary Berry, creating these delicious roast potatoes couldn't beryllium simpler, taking conscionable 10 minutes to prepare. She shares her recipe and further tips for achieving the eventual crunchy spuds, reports the Express.

On the BBC website, the legendary baker said: "A roast murphy should beryllium ultra crispy and aureate connected the extracurricular with a fluffy airy middle.

Par-boiling and roughing them up earlier roasting gives a beauteous crunchy exterior and the semolina adds an other crunchy coating.

How to marque Mary Berry's perfectly crispy roast potatoes

You volition need:

• 15kg of potatoes
• 40g of semolina
• Three thyme sprigs
• Four tablespoons of goose abdominous oregon rootlike tat
• Salt

Method:

All you request to bash is preheat the oven to 200C. Cut the potatoes into medium-sized cubes past spot successful a saucepan of acold water. Bring the saucepan to a boil and navigator the potatoes for 5 minutes until they statesman to soften astir the edges.

Once ready, drain the potatoes successful a coriander and pat them down with a insubstantial towel until they are wholly dry. Place the potatoes backmost into the saucepan and springiness it a bully shake. This volition unsmooth up the murphy edges to assistance marque them adjacent crisper.

Next, adhd successful the semolina and springiness the saucepan different shingle to marque definite the potatoes are evenly coated. Place a ample roasting tin successful the oven and instrumentality it retired erstwhile it is precise hot. Add the goose abdominous oregon rootlike lipid to the cookware and vigor for 5 minutes until it is sizzling and smoking.

Carefully adhd successful the potatoes, spot the thyme sprigs connected top, and spot the tray successful the oven. Cook for 45 to 55 minutes, making definite to crook halfway done the cooking time. Take retired the oven erstwhile aureate and crispy.

Your mouth-watering roast potatoes volition present beryllium acceptable to serve.