Hasselback potatoes

Regular baked spuds are good. Hasselback potatoes are awesome! Soft connected the wrong and crispy connected the outside, basted with ail rosemary olive oil. This is roast murphy perfection!

Hasselback potatoes talk

Everybody talks astir however tips and tricks to debar accidentally cutting the mode done (easy – chopsticks oregon spatula connected either broadside of the potato!). Why doesn’t anyone speech astir the different things that substance for hasselback success?? Namely:

1. Fanning is key! For bully hasselback potatoes, you request the slices to instrumentality retired arsenic they cook truthful you tin drip salty oil/fat betwixt the slices and crispy edges. Without fanning, you extremity up with regular aged roast spuds!

2. For fanning, you request thin slices (2mm is ideal), to cut down acold enough (1cm / 0.4″ from base) and oval shaped potatoes enactment amended than circular ones. If you don’t chopped down acold enough, you volition not get fanning! And heavy slices don’t instrumentality arsenic good arsenic bladed slices (you tin spot successful my photos the bladed ones instrumentality retired more).

3. Basting is besides key. Baste, baste, baste to promote fanning (dragging the brushwood crossed the aboveground helps abstracted the slices) and to drip tasty salted lipid betwixt the murphy slices.

And with that, let’s get onto what you privation to cognize – however to marque large hasselback potatoes!

What you need

You truly lone request potatoes, lipid and brackish to marque hasselback potatoes. Garlic and rosemary are optional, but they bash infuse the lipid with beauteous flavour that gets brushed onto the potato.

• Potato benignant – All-rounder and floury / starchy potatoes are best. The astir communal potatoes astatine regular stores volition beryllium good – they’re stocked due to the fact that they’re large all-rounders.

  Australia – Sebago (the ungraded brushed potatoes sold everywhere) are perfect, Desiree are large too. US: Yukon Gold, russet, UK: Maris piper, King Edward.

  Waxy potatoes bash work, but the chopped aboveground gets benignant of slippery which doesn’t truly entreaty to me.

• Potato size and signifier – Look for potatoes astir 250g/8oz that are a bully adjacent oval signifier alternatively than round. These volition instrumentality retired amended to let the lipid and brackish to drip betwixt the slices.

  If the potatoes are excessively tiny (like babe potatoes) past the wrong volition get excessively brushed earlier the edges crisp up. And portion successful theory, you tin marque overmuch larger ones, it volition beryllium a small harder to get the wrong cooked without the edges of the bladed slices burning.

• Garlic and rosemary are optional. These infuse the lipid with a small flavour which is past brushed onto the potatoes. But the flavour is subtle.

• Olive oil – You tin marque hasselback potatoes with immoderate fat, though oils volition marque the potatoes crisper than food (because food contains ~20% water). So if you bash privation to usage immoderate melted food for brushing, I’d urge inactive utilizing olive lipid for astir of the baking clip past usage food towards the end.

The easiest mode to chopped hasselback potatoes

So here’s a measurement by measurement of my casual mode to chopped hasselback potatoes – by utilizing a spatula oregon chopsticks which makes it intolerable to accidentally chopped each the mode through. But, arsenic noted above, it’s besides important to guarantee you chopped done enough, to let the potatoes to instrumentality out. So marque definite your spatula / chopstick is nary thicker than 1cm / 0.4″!

1. Stable base – Firstly, chopped a bladed portion disconnected the basal truthful the murphy volition beryllium level and stable.

2. Cutting guide – Place the murphy betwixt the hands of 2 spatulas oregon chopsticks (or similar), nary thicker than 1cm / 0.4″.

3. In action! See? See however the spatula stops the weapon from cutting each the mode through? Perfect!

   Slice THINLY – Aim for 2mm slices. Thin slices = fans retired erstwhile baking = crispy edges and getting lipid / brackish betwixt the slices! (Cutting done acold capable is besides cardinal to this).

4. Hasselbacked – Here it is! Run your fingers crossed the aboveground and respect your handiwork!

Wonky cuts? Accidentally chopped each the mode through? Who cares! It’s inactive going to beryllium delicious – and inactive going to trump regular plain boring roast spuds.

Baking hasselback potatoes

Cutting portion done – clip to bake. This portion is easy, but the basting steps are critical!

1. Rub with a small lipid (just 1 1/2 teaspoons shared betwixt each 5) past salt. Not overmuch astatine this stage!

2. Bake 1 – Bake astatine 200°C/400°F (180°C fan) for 30 minutes. This archetypal cook is to get the murphy slices to commencement opening up truthful we tin get brackish and lipid successful between.

3. Oil & salt – Then determination 1/4 cupful olive lipid implicit the potatoes and sprinkle with salt. Only truthful overmuch volition autumn betwixt the slices astatine this stage, we volition coax much flavour successful erstwhile we baste!

4. Bake 2 – Return to the oven with the ail and the rosemary for a further 40 minutes oregon until the potatoes are cooked through, basting with the lipid connected the tray each 10 minutes (see below). The cook clip volition beryllium shorter if you usage smaller potatoes (I usage 250g/8oz).

5. Basting – For the basting, squidge a brushwood into the lipid connected the tray.

6. Brush with intention! Then resistance the brushwood crossed the aboveground of the potato, utilizing a small unit to coax the murphy slices isolated truthful salty lipid drips down betwixt the slices. Basting is cardinal for hasselback awesomeness, truthful don’t shortcut this step!

7. Golden crispness! Crank up the oven to 220°C/425°F (200°C). Then instrumentality the potatoes into the oven oregon a further 10 to 15 minutes to marque them other aureate and crispy connected the edges.

8. Sprinkle with a small brackish flakes if you privation (I want!) past devour portion blistery and crispy.

And with that, I person imparted each my hasselback making learnings to you.

Serve portion blistery and crispy, with a sprinkle of brackish flakes and immoderate caller rosemary sprigs for decoration, if truthful desired. And portion leftovers volition support for a fewer days, determination truly is thing similar hasselbacks caller retired of the oven! – Nagi x

Watch however to marque it

Accidentally threw the ail and rosemary onto the tray astatine the opening alternatively of partway through! Best to adhd astatine the 30 infinitesimal mark, different they get very, precise toasted. (aka. burnt)

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Hasselback potatoes

Recipe video above. Soft connected the wrong and crispy connected the edges, brushed with ail rosemary olive oil! Hasselback success relies connected bladed slices truthful they instrumentality retired arsenic they bake, allowing lipid and brackish to drip successful betwixt with crispy edges. Otherwise, they extremity up similar regular roast spuds!

Making definite you chopped done capable and utilizing oval shaped spuds besides assistance to guarantee they instrumentality retired properly.

Worried astir your weapon skills? Don't! So what if your slices are irregular oregon a small excessively thick? Wonky hasselbacks inactive trump regular roast spuds each time of the week.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine swedish, Western

Keyword hasselback potatoes

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Servings 5 – 6

Author Nagi

Ingredients

• 5 – 6 x 250g / 8oz potatoes , oval shaped regular oregon floury, scrubbed cleanable (Aus: Sebago (dirt brushed), desiree, US: Yukon Gold, russet, UK: Maris piper, King Edward, Note 1)
• 1 1/2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1/4 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt

Basting:

• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/4 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt (Note 2)
• 4 garlic cloves , tegument on, smashed (optional) (Note 3)
• 3 rosemary sprigs (optional but recommended) (Note 3)

Instructions

Shortform recipe:

• Hasselback portion 2mm thick. Rub/sprinkle with 1 1/2 tsp lipid and 1/4 tsp salt.
• Bake 200°C/400°F (180°C fan) for 30 min. Pour implicit oil, sprinkle with salt, propulsion ail and rosemary connected tray. Bake further 40 min, basting generously each 10 min (getting lipid betwixt slices key), until cooked. Crank up to 220°C/425°F (200°C fan), baste, cook 10 – 15 min until other golden.

Full recipe:

• Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan-forced).
• Cut prep – Cut a bladed portion disconnected the basal of a murphy to marque it beryllium level portion cutting. Place the murphy betwixt 2 woody spatulas oregon chopsticks (no thicker than 1cm / 0.4" – Note 4), to marque it intolerable for you to accidentally chopped each the mode through!
• THIN slices – Cut the murphy into precise bladed slices, aiming for 2 mm. The cuts connected the edges of the murphy tin beryllium somewhat thicker arsenic the edges cook up crisper. (Note 4 for tips)
• Rub – Drizzle each murphy the 1 1/2 tsp lipid past sprinkle/rub with the 1/4 tsp brackish (ie stock crossed all).

Baking:

• Bake 1 – Place the potatoes connected a tray. Bake for 30 minutes, past region from oven.
• Baste 1 – The murphy slices should beryllium somewhat little "stuck" unneurotic astatine this stage. Pour the 1/4 cupful olive lipid implicit the potatoes past sprinkle the brackish evenly over. The brackish gets dispersed later, truthful don't interest if it looks similar a lot! Throw the ail and rosemary connected the tray.
• Baking/basting – Bake the potatoes for different 40 minutes, basting with the lipid connected the tray each 10 minutes. Brush with a spot of unit crossed the aboveground of the potatoes to promote the lipid and brackish to drip down. Once lipid gets betwixt the slices, they volition instrumentality retired much and more.
• CRISP IT! – Once the potatoes are brushed successful the centre (check with knife), crook the oven UP to 220°C/425°F (200°C). Baste the potatoes again past cook for a further 10 – 15 minutes until the edges are bully and golden. I americium rather bold with this step, galore others bash not question arsenic overmuch crispy edges.
• Serve instantly portion blistery and the edges are crispy! Peeling disconnected those extremity bits are the BEST.

Notes

1. Potatoes – All-rounder and floury / starchy potatoes are best. The astir communal potatoes astatine regular stores volition beryllium good – they’re stocked due to the fact that they’re large all-rounders. Oval signifier fans retired amended than circular ones.

Australia – Sebago (the ungraded brushed potatoes sold everywhere) are perfect, Desiree are large too. US: Yukon Gold, russet, UK: Maris piper, King Edward.

2. Salt – it volition look similar a batch erstwhile you sprinkle but it gets dispersed erstwhile basting, each implicit the murphy and betwixt the slices. 

3. Smash garlic by putting broadside of weapon against it and hitting with thenar of manus to marque it burst unfastened but mostly clasp together. Releases ail flavour into lipid without ending up with tons of burnt achromatic bits.

No herbs? Still worthy making arsenic the flavour is subtle. Thyme oregon sage would besides enactment well. But, usage fresh! Little bits of adust herbs volition conscionable burn.

4. Hasselback success relies connected bladed slices truthful they instrumentality retired much arsenic they cook truthful salty lipid drips down betwixt the slices and you get crispy edges. Ensuring you chopped done capable besides factors into this (hence wherefore I accidental the spatula / chopstick should not beryllium thicker than 1cm / 0.4″).

But don’t fret if you are struggling! You tin coax them unfastened erstwhile basting – conscionable use a small unit arsenic you brushwood crossed the apical and it volition coax them unfastened slightly. Last edifice – usage a food weapon to pry them open. Once a small lipid gets betwixt 2 slices of potato, it prevents them from sticking unneurotic again.

5. Leftovers volition support for 3 days but they volition not beryllium similar the aureate crispy masterpiece that you pulled blistery retired of the oven.

6. Nutrition per serving, takes into relationship an estimation of the lipid remaining connected the tray.

Life of Dozer

12 period day of Dinner. What a thrust it’s been! Thank you for being a portion of it. None of this would person been imaginable without you! – Nagi & Dozer x

(PS Yes that’s a smear of flour connected the broadside of my face. OF COURSE.)

And the lone happening Dozer cares astir is whether there’s thing edible successful this enormous, astir obnoxious clump of flowers my steadfast Pan Macmillan sent maine to observe the day!!

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