Roast potatoes (in an air fryer or standard oven)

In this video, we’re talking about making roast potatoes. We’re going to look at how to make them in the oven or in an air fryer.

Air fryers are a great way to reduce how much oil you use in cooking.

The prep for this recipe will probably take between 10-15 minutes. If you’re cooking in an air fryer, the cooking time will be around 20 minutes. In the oven, it will be closer to 45 minutes to an hour.

The ingredients are listed in the video description below. But you can see we have our potatoes and then some herbs and spices. So we’ve got paprika, garlic powder/paste, salt, black pepper and plain flour. We’ve also got a bit of olive oil.

All ingredients should be laid out on the surface.

For this recipe, you will need a large bowl, something to stir with, a chopping board, knife and some measuring spoons. If you’re using your air fryer, you won’t need anything else. If you’re going to use your standard oven, you’ll also need a roasting dish and a large saucepan.

Everything will be laid out ahead of time

Let’s get started. We’ll start by peeling and chopping up our potatoes. The size is up to you, but if you are using an air fryer, you can go for slightly smaller than you usually would. That’s because you don’t get the shrinkage from the parboiling.

I suppose the first thing I’d say is that you don’t have to peel your potatoes. Just give them a good wash, a little scrub, and use them with the skins on. I personally really like the flavour and it gives you some extra nutrients.

In terms of chopping, you can either use one of these chopping boards that will hold your potato in place while you chop it. Or just buy smaller potatoes that you don’t need to chop, I have made roast potatoes with little new potatoes and they work great.

Extra chopping board needs to be ready.

I’m going to stop recording now to get all these potatoes chopped up. No one wants to sit here and watch me cut these all up.

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Now that those are chopped, you are welcome to take a break if you need. The next bit needs to be done all together, so please take a break if you need. If you are, I would recommend covering your potatoes with a bit of water to stop them drying out.

Otherwise, we’ll go ahead and make our spice mix. But first, if you’re using a standard oven, now is the time to preheat your oven. Put your roasting dish with the oil in straight into oven while it heats up. That will get your oil nice and hot, which you need for a good roast potato.

Right, back to the spice mix. We’re going to add a touch of oil, a little paprika, garlic powder and black pepper to our large bowl. You can also add salt or a low salt alternative, but that’s entirely up to you. If there are other spices or herbs you want to add, you can do that too. Rosemary works quite well, if you’re a fan of that.

Ok, if you’re cooking in an air fryer, you can go ahead and put the potatoes straight into this mix. If you’re using a standard oven, we’ll just put our chopped potatoes into our saucepan and cover them with boiling water.

These only need a couple minutes at a full, rolling boil.

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Once that’s done, you can drop them into your bowl with the spices and give them a little stir. I like to do this with a fork so that you can rough them up a little as you go.

The goal here is to get your potatoes evenly but thinly coated with the spice mix.

If you’re cooking these in the oven, you could also add a little plain flour. It just helps to build up a crust on the potatoes.

Now it’s time for cooking.

We’ll start with our air fryer. You’re going to pop those potatoes straight into the basket. You don’t need any extra oil. These will roast at 195*C for 10 minutes. After those 10 minutes, you’ll open the basket, flip them, and go for another 10 minutes. Then the potatoes are done.

No, it shouldn’t be. The only thing that would change that is if your air fryer basket was too small for how many potatoes you wanted to do. But yeah, you can see why air fryers are so popular at the minute. Less time and less oil

If you’re using a standard oven, you want to put these potatoes into that roasting dish we preheated earlier. Be very careful that the hot oil does not splash up on you.

Give them a quick turn around in the hot oil and then spread them out into a single layer. You want a bit of room around them.

Roast these for about 15 minutes in your hot oven and then take them out, turn them over. You’re going to roast for another 15 minutes and turn them again. And put them back in for another 10 to 20 minutes, just until they are golden and crispy. So that’s 40 to 50 minutes in total.

This regular turning ensures even cooking on all sides. You don’t want potatoes burnt on one side and dry on the other.