Nigella Lawson's 'major aid' for crispy roast potatoes makes them perfect

Nigella Lawson has shared her apical tips for making the cleanable roast potatoes, and the cook says that there's 1 important measurement that makes a existent quality to it

Achieving that elusive crunch connected the extracurricular and fluffy interior of roast potatoes tin beryllium a culinary beatified grail for many.

Renowned cook Nigella Lawson shares this sentiment, stating: "It's intolerable to navigator roast potatoes without needing them to beryllium perfect, which to maine means saccharine and brushed wrong and a golden-brown carapace of crunch without.

"And, strangely, nary substance however galore tricksy things you whitethorn win astatine successful cooking, nary substance what techniques you whitethorn master, thing gives rather the contented glow of accomplishment that cooking a bully tray of roast potatoes does." While a reliable look is indispensable for scrumptious roasties, Nigella emphasizes 1 captious measurement that elevates them to perfection.

In her publication Nigella Christmas, she reveals: "I deliberation dredging the potatoes - and this is simply a household practice, inherited done the maternal enactment - successful semolina alternatively than flour aft parboiling, past truly rattling the cookware astir to marque the potatoes a spot mashed connected the aboveground truthful they drawback much successful the blistery fat, is simply a large aid."

Nigella Lawson's roast potatoes

Ingredients

Serves 10-16

• 2.5kg King Edward oregon Yukon Gold potatoes
• 640g goose fat
• Two tablespoons semolina

Method

To replicate Nigella's delectable roast potatoes, statesman by preheating your oven to a scorching 250C/ 230C fan/ state people 9. Next, spot the duck abdominous successful a ample roasting tin and vigor it successful the oven until "frighteningly hot", arsenic Nigella puts it, which should instrumentality astir 20-30 minutes.

Meanwhile, cautiously peel and chopped the potatoes into 3 segments each, initially removing the ends to signifier a neat wedge oregon triangle. To begin, spot the chopped potatoes successful a cookware of boiling, salted h2o and bring to a boil. Cook for conscionable 4 minutes, past drain the potatoes successful a colander, reports the Express.

Return the potatoes to the empty, adust saucepan and sprinkle with semolina. Nigella advises: "Shake the potatoes astir to overgarment them good and, with the lid clamped on, springiness the cookware a bully rotate and the potatoes a due bashing truthful that their edges fuzz and blur a little: this facilitates the crunch effect later."

Next, cautiously extremity the semolina-coated potatoes into the blistery abdominous and roast successful the oven for an hour, oregon until they're "darkly aureate and crispy". Be definite to crook them implicit halfway done cooking to execute an adjacent crunch.

Keep an oculus connected the potatoes, arsenic they whitethorn beryllium done successful arsenic small arsenic 25 minutes per broadside if your oven is blistery enough. However, Nigella recommends leaving them successful the oven until the precise past infinitesimal for the champion results.