Australian

Roast Potatoes

Name: Roast Potatoes
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 2.5 lb potatoes; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Chloe @chloe_melbourne

Roast Potatoes is Australian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

55 min Medium Vegetarian Vegan Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 lb potatoes
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425F.
Peel the potatoes, cut into chunks, and parboil for 8 minutes, then drain and shake in the pot to rough up the edges.
Toss with the olive oil, salt, and pepper on a sheet pan.
Roast until deeply golden and crisp, about 40 minutes, turning once.
Serve hot.

Watch how to cook Roast Potatoes

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Roast Potatoes, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Aussie Butter Chicken
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Aussie Corn on the Cob
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Roast Potatoes carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Roast Potatoes
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 350 kcal
Protein: 6 g
Carbs: 57 g
Fat: 11 g
Fiber: 6 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 580 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Roast Potatoes takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.