Garlic Roast Potatoes

These are the first of many Christmas recipes coming your way! Roasties are a favourite side dish - who said they only have to be for Sundays?

Ingredients

• 2kg Maris Piper potatoes
• 4 tbsp goose fat
• 4 rosemary sprigs, leaves picked and roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves , peeled and left whole

Method

Peel the potatoes, leaving the smaller ones whole and cutting the larger ones so that they are all roughly the same size. 

Put them in a large pan of cold salted water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 15 mins until cooked through. 

Tip into a colander and leave to drain and cool.

When they stop steaming, put them on a tray in a single layer and place in the fridge, uncovered, until you're ready to roast.

Once you have put the loin in to start roasting, spoon the goose fat into a flameproof roasting tin and heat on the hob for a few mins. 

Turn the heat off and turn each potato in the fat so they are completely coated. Make sure they are in a single layer and not touching. 

Once the oven has been turned down to 180C/gas 4, put the potatoes in the oven with the pork and cook for 40 mins.

Remove from the oven and, again, turn each potato. Return to the oven for 20 mins, then remove and repeat the turning process. 

The pork should have come out of the oven by now, so turn the oven up to 220C/gas 7 and cook the potatoes for a final 20 mins. 

Add the rosemary and garlic 5 mins before the end. 

Once cooked, the potatoes should be deep golden and crunchy on the outside and fluffy in the middle. Enjoy!

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