There was the matter of steadying the potato, as well as making countless thin slices without cutting through the bottom of the spud.

She has an abnormal love for sparkling water and enjoys digging into the latest healthy food trends. New potatoes, such as Jersey Royals, also work well for a smaller (albeit more fiddly) option, and even sweet potatoes. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. As well as your chosen fat, you can flavour your potatoes with any of your favourite ingredients, either pre-cooking or post-cooking.I have also cooked as a gratin using heavy cream and gruyere cheese but you need to lower the cook temp and cook a bit longer to avoid separating the cream. Whilst slits made closer together result in a more impressive outcome, it's a lengthier and more fiddly process than fewer and wider spaced slits. Cook for 1¼ to 1½hr, depending on size of potatoes, until potatoes are golden, crisp and cooked through and slices have fanned out.

Whether in the kitchen or on the grill, you’ll find me cooking American favorites with a love for BBQ, Mexican and Tex Mex. One way to inject flavour into your potatoes is to toss them in homemade infused oil before they go into the oven. Once I wash my potato, I pierce it with the guide and use my knife and the guide’s prongs to cut the potato, over and over again, going from right to left. Some fruits (like apples and avocados) as well as vegetables (like potatoes) discolor when they’re exposed to air. Here you can choose to accept all of the cookies or customise which cookies you accept and which you do not.A hasselback potato is a single potato, sliced into thin wedges but left joined at the bottom, baked until the layers fan out into rounds of crispy bliss.