lemon, garlic and oregano roast potatoes
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Yield 4 servings
How many times do you need a side for a BBQ and you find yourself opening a pack of coleslaw and crying because everything is so boring and you're sick of being fat and anyway, that miserable cow next door is already twitching her curtains and complaining about the smoke? Well, screw that, screw her and screw boring sides: our amazing lemon, garlic and oregano roast potatoes are a doddle to make, low in syn and taste bloody amazing.
Please: don't be tempted to skip the olive oil. It's worth it. You could use Frylight, yes, but why bother? Syns are there to be used for good food!
Ingredients
- about 900g of new potatoes, scrubbed a bit but not peeled, cut into smallish chunks
- two tablespoons of olive oil (see notes)
- four garlic cloves, minced (see notes)
- a couple of teaspoons of dried oregano
- a few grinds of salt
- a few grinds of black pepper
- 150ml of beef stock (or veggie stock if you're veggie, duh)
- 150ml of fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons of fresh oregano - optional, dried is fine, but use a little less
Instructions
- get the oven up to about 200 degrees, and find a good non-stick roasting dish
- pour the chopped potatoes in, together with the oil, minced garlic, salt, pepper (don't be shy), oregano and then pop the lid on and shake shake shake - really throw everything around to get it all coated
- bake in the oven for about twenty minutes, take out, add the stock, shake and back into the oven it goes for about fifteen minutes
- out it comes, add the lemon juice and again, shake it to buggery - then back into the oven for a good twenty minutes or so, until everything is cooked and most of the liquid has disappeared
- top with fresh oregano and serve
Use your common sense here - if it needs a bit longer, keep it in! But make sure it doesn't burn.
Notes
- this recipe idea comes from epicurious - and boy, did it work well!
- if you can find it, olive oil flavoured with lemon (sold in Tesco) or flavoured with garlic will really lift this dish
- don't bother peeling your garlic - just use a grater on it with the cloves still in their papers - use a good microplane grater to save time
- you don't need anything fancy to get the juice from your lemons - one of these reamers will do the job!
- when it comes to the lemon juice, use fresh lemons - microwave them for about ten seconds before cutting and juicing, you'll get loads more
- don't throw away the half lemons either - use them to scrub your BBQ after cooking
Courses sides, vegetarian
Cuisine BBQ
Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2018/05/20/roast-potatoes/