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Recipe: Hasselback Potatoes

May 22, 2013

Recipe: Hasselback Potatoes

Summary: Hasselback potatoes originated in a restaurant in Stockholm and were the thing to serve at dinner parties in the 70’s. They are also my childhood favourite. Mummy Ask would make them for special occasions and I would beg her to make a few spares for me, so I could peel the crispy edged layers into my mouth, straight from fridge for breakfast. It’s best to pick medium sized oblong shaped potatoes. I am not giving exact quantities, more the method. Mummy Ask does not peel hers but you can if you want to.

Ingredients

  • Potatoes
  • Butter
  • Tumeric
  • Chicken Salt
  • Pepper

Instructions

  1. Pre heat the oven to 180C.
  2. Cut thin verticals slices in to the potatoes, right as far down as you can before they cut through to the base of the potato. The more slices the crispier
  3. Choose a baking dish just big enough to hold the potatoes. Add enough butter to the baking dish, so that when melted you will have 1-2cm of butter in the base of the dish. This is not a time to worry about fat! Place the dish in the oven to melt the butter.
  4. Place the potatoes in the baking dish and baste with butter, ensuring it gets into the slices. Sprinkle with chicken salt & turmeric – don’t be light handed!
  5. Bake in the oven for 1& 1/2 hours, basting the cuts with the melted butter in the base of the dish every 15 – 20 mins
  6. Test for doneness with skewer and once cooked baste again with butter. If you still have liquid butter, drain it. If not enough butter add a dob to each potato. Add more chicken salt (you will have lost some in the basting) & some pepper. You can test seanoning by pressing your finger to the top of the potato and tasting.
  7. If you are not ready to serve, stop at this point and continue when ready because after this next step, if they are left to keep warm in the oven they will lose cripiness. Then bang oven up to 220 and cook, watching, until totally crispy. Voila!

Quick notes

If you are after the full 1970’s vibe, Mummy Ask would have made french onion soup and garlic bread to start. These potatoes were served this most often with – whole steamed green beans with soy sauce and tosted sesame seeds and diagonally sliced carrots microwaved with orange juice and maple syrup and broccoli cheese and some sort of roast meat. And you can bet that there would be crepe suzette or chocolate mousse to finish!

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