We like our potatoes roasted:\u00a0 parboil them with the skins on, then drain, transfer to an oven tray and baste with oil.<\/p>\n
The problem was that we couldn’t get them really crispy.\u00a0 Then in a conversation with my brother all became clear.<\/p>\n
The best potatoes for roasting are floury ones (floury potatoes tend to turn to mush faster when overcooked), but the potatoes available locally are not particularly floury.\u00a0 The solution: after draining put some flour in the pan and tumble the potatoes in it.\u00a0 Then deposit the floury potatoes in the oven tray, baste with oil and nuke them at a high temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We like our potatoes roasted:\u00a0 parboil them with the skins on, then drain, transfer to an oven tray and baste with oil. The problem was that we couldn’t get them really crispy.\u00a0 Then in a conversation with my brother all became clear. The best potatoes for roasting are floury ones (floury potatoes tend to turn … Continue reading “Crispy Roast Potatoes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[61,62,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}