Hi and welcome to Steve's kitchen. One of
my favorite savory dishes when we've
been traveling around the world, we've had
in Southeast Asia, we've had in Mexico
and now we're having it here in Sicily,
Italy becauseIi'm making it, it's the
spiral potatoes or tornado potatoes they're
called in some places and they're super
easy to make and so delicious
come on let me show you how. Now we're
going to start off by making a delicious
seasoning, now you could use dried
herbs, I'm using my fresh herbs today
because I've got them here. Now I've got
some sage and some fresh basil here I'm
just going to firstly slice it up and
I've got some lemon thyme here actually the
stalks are quite soft so I probably
don't need to pull the leaves off but I'm
going to anyway and then we're just
going to chop this up nice and finely,
pop those fresh herbs into a bowl and a
half a teaspoon of black pepper, paprika
and salt. Here I've also got a couple of
tablespoons of grated Parmesan in with
my spices give those a little mix
together. Next take a potato and a wooden
skewer and take that wooden skewer and
push it through the center of the potato, try
and get it as straight as possible.
Now grab the skewer with a cloth make
sure your hands are not this side we
don't want to puncture the skin anywhere and
we're just going to push that skewer
through the potato and until it's
approximately halfway on the skewer like
that. Now take your potato and don't
be tempted to go at an angle we want to
go fairly straight with this, we're just
going to cut until the knife hits the
wooden skewer and what you're going to
do is just continue to turn the potato
round and just keep going around and
around in a circular motion and as you
do it you'll see the potato will start
to spiral out. Now another way I like to
do is just to hold the potato up on the
skewer and you can just almost you hold
the blade up against the skewer there
you can just turn the potato around
fairly quickly and get a really cool
spiral effect. Always be very careful
when you get near the end of the potato
that you don't cut your fingers. Now what
we want to do now is ease the potato open
a little bit so you're pulling the
potato along and just spacing those
cutouts, you get this lovely spiral
effect. next we're just going to take
some melted butter and we're just going
to brush some butter on and
into our potatoes and try and get into
the gaps.
Now let's take some of that seasoning
and we're going to sprinkle it over our
potatoes get into those gaps. Now I
preheated my oven to 180 degrees Celsius
350 Fahrenheit because I've done two
potatoes and they're a reasonable size
I'm going to bake these for about 30 to 45
minutes and that depends on the size of
your potatoes.
Let's pop them in and just see how
delicious they look when they come out.
Now 45 minutes later
these are cooked, now because we're
traveling we haven't got the full lights
we normally have
we're losing our light, I've got a couple of
little standard lamps hopefully you'll
be able to see these. Just come down here
now look at that beautiful spiral potato.
There you have it so you've got this
beautiful seasoned spiral potato and if
you pop a fork on like this you can just
slide it, group it up and slide it up
onto a plate like so. I'm grating over
some fresh Parmesan cheese here now let
me tell you something doesn't matter
where you travel in the world looking
for sunshine if it's winter it still
gets dark super early.
Now I'm going to take a little bit of
this potato just off the end of, love
this crispy little bit here.
Most places where you see these sold on
the streets they're deep-fried so we've
done them a little more healthy so you
could have a nice big dollop of sour
cream with this but I'm going to go 'au
naturale' give this a try
Umm oh wow that packs a heap of flavor
you can experiment with herbs and
spices that you prefer, have some fun
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