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Roast potatoes "à la provençale"

These roast potatoes with echoes of Provence are cooked in 2 stages: boiled first, then finished in the oven until golden and crisp.

They can be served on their own, to accompany meat, or simply with a good green salad.

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Last modified on: September 12^th 2021

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For 12 people, you will need:

1 3 kgs potatoes
2 3 tablespoons coarse salt
3 6 bayleaves
4 6 sprigs rosemary
5 15 tablespoons olive oil
6 6 tablespoons herbes de Provence
7 salt
8 pepper
Total weight: 3,366 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Peel and rinse 3 kgs potatoes.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Cut the potatoes in to chunks of fairly even size (about the size of your thumb).

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Cut chunks to make lots of faces (rather than slices) as these crisp up better.

Rinse the chunks again.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Put the potato chunks into a large pan. Add 3 tablespoons coarse salt, 6 bayleaves and 6 sprigs rosemary, then enough to water to cover.

Stage 5 - 40 min.

Bring to the boil, then simmer for about 30 minutes.

Stage 6

The potatoes should be soft, to the point of breaking up in the pan.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C)

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Drain the potatoes.

Stage 8 - 3 min.

Spread the potatoes out in a single layer on a sheet of cooking parchment laid on a baking sheet.

Taste a piece and if it still lacks salt, sprinkle with more salt, then pepper.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Brush all the potatoes with olive oil.

Stage 10 - 1 min.

Scatter herbes de Provence over.

Stage 11 - 30 min.

Roast for about 30 minutes, keeping an eye on the colour towards the end.

Stage 12

Eat piping hot to make the most of them while they are still lovely and crisp.

Remarks

For even more of the Provencal spirit, use herb olive oil instead of plain, and add 1 or 2 cloves of garlic

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You can cook any variety of potatoes like this, but for the best results, use a floury type, such as Bintje.

Keeping

Should be eaten immediately.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,575 Kcal or 19,155 Kj	60 gr	570 gr	228 gr
229 %	23 %	54 %	35 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
136 Kcal or 569 Kj	2 gr	17 gr	7 gr
7 %	1 %	2 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
381 Kcal or 1,595 Kj	5 gr	48 gr	19 gr
19 %	2 %	4 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 12 people : 13.19 €
Per person : 1.10 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Avengers' potatoes, Warm Leek and Potato Salad, Potato tortilla (Spanish omelette), Vegetable pie, Roast in the bag pork with fondant vegetables., ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Courgettes (zuchinis) , Beef braised in reduced red wine, Mushroom buckwheat pancakes, Bruschetta and mozzarella, Tagliatelle with cockles, ... All
	Herbes de Provence: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-olive ciabatta, How to seal a terrine or casserole dish, Provençal braised carrots, Tomato foccacia, Fine multi-tomato tart, ... All
	Bayleaf: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pâté de campagne, Two-stage beef chuck , Chicken "cantina", Spicy seafood plancha, Red rice pannequets, ... All

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