How to cook roast potatoes

Ingredients

  • However many Maris Piper potatoes you want to eat
  • Some olive oil

Method

  1. Oven on - fan 180
  2. Put a roasting pan in the oven to heat up - big thick ceramic ones work best, but whatever
  3. Get peelin
  4. Cut up the potatoes into roast potato sized bits
  5. Stick the potatoes in a saucepan and cover with cold water
  6. Bring the water up to the boil and let it simmer for a few minutes. Maybe 3.
  7. Drain the potatoes and shake 'em about a bit to make the edges a bit fluffy
  8. Put about 3mm of olive oil into the hot pan
  9. Put the potatoes into the pan and roll them around to coat them in oil.
  10. Into the oven for an hour, turn them every 15 min or so.
  11. Put them in a bowl lined with kitchen towel to soak up the oil a bit
  12. Serve