Recipe: Freezer Ready Roast Potatoes

A way to prep roast potatoes into the freezer so you can take them out of the freezer straight to the oven. 


Ingredients:

  • 2kg potatoes, pick variety for roasting
  • salt
  • a couple of dessert spoons of flour
  • 60ml / 1/4 cup of oil / just use your skill and judgement, who measures the oil for roasting really?

Prep potatoes into roasting sizes chunks

Add potato chunks to salty boiling water in a pan

Cook potatoes for 10 minutes

Drain potatoes, spread on a tray to allow them to evaporate dry.

Drain and dry pan

Put ptoatoes back in pan, sprinkle with flour and shake/toss them to cover and mash the edges of the potatoes a bit

Put potatoes in storage container/bag, try to spread them out so they don't form a lump.

Freeze them.



When you want them later:

Preheat oven and tray with oil to 180C

Tip in potatoes,

Allow to roast for 30 mins at 180C, then crank up for the last 15-20 mins at 220C

If you are cooking meat, cranking the heat up to 220C can be done when you take the meat out to rest.


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