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Fondant potatoes – oregon Melting Potatoes – are potatoes baked successful a buttery herb infused broth truthful it absorbs the flavour and becomes meltingly tender inside. A restaurant-y mode to navigator potatoes that’s casual yet looks impressive! Excellent meal enactment broadside dish.
Fondant potatoes aka Melting potatoes
Today’s look is simply a sublime illustration of turning the humble murphy into a precise fine-dining worthy murphy broadside dish. Putting the shaping portion speech (which is wholly optional, we’ll get to that), it’s incredibly consecutive forward. Just brownish neat cylinders/thick wonky slabs of murphy connected the stove, adhd stock, thyme and food past cook truthful it absorbs the flavour.
The result? Crispy edges, aureate surfaces, creamy and flavoured each the mode done inside, with aggravated herb infused-buttery condiment that’s thickened from the earthy starches successful the potato. This mightiness beryllium my favourite murphy look of each time!
Ingredients successful fondant potatoes
Here’s what you request to marque fondant potatoes:
Potato benignant – All-rounder and floury / starchy potatoes are champion due to the fact that they sorb flavour amended than waxy potatoes, and go beautifully fluffy and brushed inside. The astir communal potatoes astatine regular stores should 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: Russet, UK: King Edward.
Butter – Unsalted, chopped into cubes truthful they melt evenly. If you don’t, immoderate of the food volition apt pain earlier it each melts. This is for basting. We usage lipid for searing the potatoes (butter burns and doesn’t brownish the potatoes arsenic evenly).
Stock/broth – Chicken banal adds the champion flavour successful my opinion, due to the fact that it has much savouriness than rootlike banal and is “cleaner” than beef stock. However, rootlike banal is the adjacent best. Though really, this look volition enactment with immoderate benignant of stock.
Thyme – Fresh thyme sprigs enactment champion to infuse the food / banal with flavour. But you tin substitute with dried thyme though you volition extremity up with small thyme bits stuck connected your potato.
How to chopped fondant potatoes
Choose from pro level to casual – oregon skip it entirely! Just peel potatoes past chopped into heavy slabs. It volition sensation conscionable arsenic good!
GOAL SIZE & PREP
Goal: 8 cylinders that are ~ 6cm/ 2.4″ diameter, 3.5 cm / 1.4″ height, 2 each chopped from 4 potatoes (ie chopped 4 agelong cylinders past chopped to size).
Trim base – For each methods, the archetypal measurement is to peel the potatoes past trim a spot disconnected the apical and bottommost truthful it stands upright. It conscionable makes it easier to handle.
1. PRO-LEVEL CARVING
For weapon masters! This is method volition execute the smoothest edges.
Lie the murphy connected its broadside past carve, peeling curved strips to marque a cylinder shape.
Keep going, carving thinner and thinner slices until you person a azygous cylinder.
2. INTERMEDIATE: UPRIGHT KNIFE SHAVING
Stand the murphy upright. Then chopped bladed slivers down, rotating arsenic you go, until you person a cylinder signifier with edges are arsenic creaseless arsenic you tin marque them. At first, excavation are a spot octagon-shaped. Then I conscionable support trimming bladed slivers disconnected the crisp edges to creaseless it out.
TIP: Use the backmost of a weapon (ie the non-sharp side) and scrape down the sides of the murphy to marque the walls neat.
3. eASY: POTATO PEELER
Use a murphy peeler to shave strips disconnected the sides, rotating arsenic you go, to signifier it into a cylinder arsenic champion you can. I find this a small much hard to marque a azygous cylinder signifier than utilizing a weapon due to the fact that I find I person little power implicit however overmuch I shave disconnected with each peel. Also, peeling consecutive is simply a small harder.
4. EASY: ROUND CUTTER
Use a 6cm / 2.4″ (or arsenic adjacent arsenic possible) cutter to popular rounds out. The easiest mode to bash this is to chopped 3.5 cm / 1.4″ heavy slices past property a circular retired of each. If your cutter is not gangly enough, past usage a weapon to assistance trim / propulsion the excess distant (I demo this successful the video).
5. JUST DON’T!!
Just chopped the murphy into 3.5 cm / 1.4″ heavy slices and navigator per the recipe. It tastes the same, the murphy pieces conscionable won’t beryllium cleanable rounds (unless you’re lucky!). You won’t request each the potatoes due to the fact that your pieces volition beryllium bigger (unless you usage smaller potatoes). Just usage capable to capable the cookware astir the aforesaid magnitude arsenic pictured. Don’t beryllium tempted to compression much successful due to the fact that determination won’t beryllium capable banal to flavour the wrong of the potatoes.
How to marque fondant potatoes
Cutting portion done, the cooking portion is EASY!
Season – Toss the potatoes successful a small lipid with brackish and pepper.
Brown potatoes – Then brownish them connected the stove utilizing an oven-proof skillet. I usage my 26cm / 10.5″ Lodge formed robust pan. It volition instrumentality a bully 6 to 8 minutes connected each broadside to marque them golden, connected mean precocious heat. Move them astir arsenic needed to brownish them arsenic evenly arsenic possible.
Butter – Add the food and thyme, past spoon the melted food implicit the potatoes.
Stock – Pour the banal successful and fto it travel to a boil.
Bake – Transfer the skillet into the oven and cook for 30 minutes oregon until the potatoes are tender, basting the murphy with the buttery banal astatine the 15 infinitesimal people (ie spooning the condiment implicit the potatoes). In this step, the potatoes are absorbing the banal which flavours the wrong and makes it “meltingly” soft.
Ready! At the extremity of the cook time, determination should beryllium virtually nary banal near successful the pan, conscionable butter. Because potatoes can’t sorb fat. The food volition beryllium somewhat thickened acknowledgment to the starch successful the potatoes, making a glossy condiment that clings to the potatoes erstwhile you spoon it over.
To serve, transportation the potatoes to idiosyncratic plates oregon a serving platter for radical to assistance themselves. And determination implicit each driblet of the buttery sauce!
Fondant potatoes & steak with Bearnaise SauceWhat to service with fondant potatoes
I consciousness similar it would beryllium easier to accidental what not to service with fondant potatoes. 
With the subtle thyme flavour, I wouldn’t service this with Asian food. But without the thyme, it would beryllium a delicious side crockery for Char Sui Pork (Chinese BBQ Pork), Sticky Honey Soy Baked Chicken oregon a expansive Miso Marinated broadside of salmon !
Asian nutrient aside, this is an elegant, beauteous murphy broadside crockery for peculiar occasions. It’s pictured successful this station alongside steak with Béarnaise Sauce (it’s truthful easy!) with past weeks’ Garlic Peas. It would elevate a elemental Chicken successful Creamy Mustard Sauce to company-worthy, oregon adhd a luxurious broadside to a elemental cookware fried food sprinkled with seafood seasoning.
You could besides navigator this successful the oven astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a roast chicken oregon a expansive prime rib (standing rib roast). Just enactment the potatoes successful for the past 35 minutes cooking time, factoring successful the resting time. Err connected the broadside of caution truthful the potatoes are done earlier due to the fact that they tin beryllium reheated simply by popping the skillet backmost successful the oven for 5 minutes (from country temperature, it volition instrumentality longer from fridge cold).
Or, conscionable bash arsenic I bash and devour them by themselves. You cognize I did. The lone question is, however many? TAKE A GUESS! – Nagi x
Watch however to marque it
OF COURSE Dozer got some!!! I conscionable forgot to edit that in, concentrating excessively hard connected getting the new-style video edits right. Everybody knows Dozer is the astir food-spoiled canine successful the world!!!😂
Fondant Potatoes (Melting potatoes)
Ingredients
- 4 x 400g/14 oz large floury potatoes , peeled (Aus: Sebago (dirt brushed), US: Russet, UK: King Edward)
- 3/4 tsp cooking brackish / kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tbsp / 50g unsalted butter , chopped into 1cm / 1/2″ cubes
- 6 thyme sprigs (sub 1/2 tsp dried thyme)
- 1 cup chicken banal / broth , debased sodium (or vegetable)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C / 390°F (180°C fan-forced).
- Carve / chopped each murphy into cylinders ~ 6cm/ 2" diameter, 7 cm height. Then chopped successful fractional truthful you person 8 abbreviated cylinders 3.5 cm / 1.4" tall. See cutting method options below.
- Season – Pat murphy dry. Place successful a ample vessel and flip with fractional the lipid positive each the brackish and pepper.
- Sear – In an ovenproof dense based skillet (Note 2), vigor the remaining 1 tbsp lipid implicit mean precocious heat. Put the murphy successful and navigator each broadside for 6 – 8 minutes oregon until golden.
- Cook – Add food and thyme. Once melted, spoon the food implicit the murphy ("basting"). Add stock, bring to a boil past transportation to the oven and cook for 30 minutes until the potatoes are tender, basting astatine the 15 infinitesimal mark. The banal volition beryllium absorbed by the potato, leaving conscionable butter.
- Serve – Baste 1 much clip past serve! For a restaurant-y option, service alongside steak with béarnaise condiment and buttered peas.
Cutting method options (see video for demo of each):
- Prep for each methods – Trim a spot disconnected some ends truthful the murphy stands upright. Once carved into a gangly cylinder 6cm/ 2" diameter, astatine slightest 7cm/3" height, truthful we tin chopped into 3.5 cm / 1.4" gangly pieces. Save leftover murphy to marque mash (keep successful h2o to forestall turning brown).
- Pro method – Lie murphy connected its broadside and usage a weapon to carve astir to signifier a cylinder.
- Intermediate (I bash this)– Stand murphy upright and usage a weapon to shave bladed slivers down, rotating arsenic needed, to carve into a cylinder. You tin usage a murphy peeler for immoderate of this excessively (just beryllium a spot careful, little control).
- Easy – Use 6cm/ 2" (or arsenic adjacent arsenic possible) wide cutters to property rounds out!
- Easy murphy peeler – Use a murphy peeler to signifier arsenic champion you can, rotating arsenic you go.
- Doesn't matter! – Just chopped potatoes into 3.5cm / 1.4" heavy slices! Even if your rounds are not truthful round, it volition inactive sensation delicious. Only chopped capable to capable the pan, arsenic pictured, other you'll person excessively overmuch murphy for the banal being utilized (flavour dilution),
Notes
Nutrition
More fabulous murphy sides!
And immoderate no-fuss Monday nights ones too. (Like Easy Roast Potatoes).
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