Crushed new potatoes

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Table in the Tarn: Living, Eating and Cooking in South-west France

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

  • About

This trendy side dish is a crunchy halfway house between roast and sauté potatoes. Small potatoes (no need to peel) are boiled till tender, squashed with the palm of your hand, allowed to cool then half an hour before eating, roasted till crisp and sizzling.

Ingredients

  • olive oil, butter or goose fat
  • 12-16 small potatoes, red or white

Method

Line a roasting tin with baking paper and brush with olive oil, butter or fat (to give a roasty finish to the potatoes; the baking paper is there to make light work of cleaning up afterwards). If making double quantities, use 2 roasting tins so the potatoes are well spread out. Scrub the potatoes (do not peel) and put in a pan with 2 tsp of the salt and water to cover by 3cm. Boil for about 20