Lovely people we are going to celebrate the creation of the perfect roast potato, it's
not just potato it's the perfect roast potato and if you think I'm going mad it's because
I'm mad for roast potatoes, crispy outside and fluffy inside we're gonna do it 3 ways goose
fat potatoes, butter clementines, rosemary garlic and extra virgin olive oil, the maris piper is
an incredible incredible potato fluffy and starchy-peeling the potatoes, you don't need to see that
I've got them par boiling in here in salted boiling water they're kind of that
size, cook them for about 10 minutes the best roast potatoes I've ever made have come from
a time when I almost felt I'd over cooked them and created mashed potato ok so you need
to tread that line very very very carefully so I can see they're just kind of thinking
about breaking up pour it into the colander this steaming part here now is also incredibly
incredibly important it's starting to get starchy see it go kind of fluffy and white
and little kind of flecks and flakes of broken bits of potato these are the things that are
gonna give you crispy bits and we love crispy bits and a crispy outside ok really really
important in tray number one cold press extra virgin olive oil 3 tablespoons low in saturated
fats so we love that we're gonna move on butter and oil oil half as much and then a nice knob
of butter butter's gonna give you incredible flavour and a lovely sweetness but also a
strong contender for gorgeousness is goose fat you can get it in all supermarkets 3-4
tablespoons in there you're gonna get a richer flavour could be pork fat, could be beef tallow
I love all of them but I generally sway to butter and olive oil but at Christmas I kind
of go for the goose fat because it's so good a little secret ingredient that I do a swig
tablespoon of red wine vinegar it will disappear and what's left is a really subtle kind of
tang that just helps make the perfect roast potato then herbs, so let's go to the olive
oil here, getting some lovely rosemary put it under a hot tap, if you put it under a
hot tap it just wakes up the natural oils in the rosemary so rosemary goes in and of
course best friends with garlic leave the skin on the skin will protect the garlic and
it will release the garlic-ness very gently the whole bulb of garlic trust me guys then
we're gonna go to the olive oil and butter sage is a classic beautiful beautiful fragrant
herb that goes in and then we've got clementine you could use any citrus fruit but at Christmas
a clementine is particularly good just the zest, that will make a difference it's gonna
be really really good, last but not least goose fat just go brave on bay leaves dry
ones are ok fresh amazing 4-5-6 and then go in with some thyme we're gonna hit these up
with some salt and pepper olive oil over the garlic clementine butter oil oil and sage
and bay thyme and goose fat delicious now back over here while these little bad boys
are steaming hot right we need to chuff them up scratching and scraping the edge, chuffing
alright I've made it up ok look what I'm doing look what I'm doing woohoo! see how I've beaten
that up alright? that's good so we're gonna go in and while they're hot just mix up all
of these absolutely gorgeous so I'm gonna cook these in and oven at about 180 degrees
190, which is about 350 Fahrenheit over the period of about 50 minutes maybe an hour they're
gonna get gorgeous and golden and crispy but after about 40 minutes I wanna show you the
last little tip to make them incredible take the tray out of the oven after the 40 minutes
place a potato masher on top and then just let it pop and let the lovely starchy inside
just poof out and then create a flatter surface area on the bottom and the top just do that
around the whole tray and then pop it back in for another 10 minutes hear the sizzles,
have a little shake up you can see and you can hear there is crispy perfection in the
house, goose fat potatoes the butter the potatoes with the clementine the smell in this room
is off the chart and last but not least the rosemary garlic and extra virgin olive oil
crispy fluffy perfect tangy little gorgeous roast potatoes so obviously roast potatoes
are only one part of the meal if you wanna look at the other parts of the meal the gravy
the meat different veggie options click the link we've got loads of wonderful recipes
on jamieoliver.com and on Food Tube that celebrate all things that go with roast potatoes but
let's be honest guys everything in the world goes with roast potatoes I know you feel the
same way as I do ah crispy and fluffy yeah baby just give me a little bit of peace can
I just have a little moment on my own, go on off you go