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Hasselback potatoes

Crispy, buttery, garlicky, and very pretty potatoes. Take some time to cut the potatoes, and probably you will not want to make enough of them to have a full meal. A great addition to any celebration feast, they are like gold — small and precious.

Ingredients

Yields 1 portion

  • 1 kg potatoes
  • olive oil
  • salt
  • freshly ground black pepper
  • 40 g butter
  • 2 cloves garlic

You will need

  • oven
  • baking tray

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 240 ˚C.
  2. Wash and dry potatoes.
  3. On each potato, make a series of cuts from the top around ¾ deep with a sharp knife. Each potato should look like a comb with thin teeth.
  4. Lightly coat each potato with olive oil (for example, pour a bit of olive oil into a bowl, take a potato with one hand, and with your other hand rub a light coating of olive oil on a potato), place the potatoes on a baking sheet, sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
  5. Bake the potatoes until they start to crisp.
  6. While the potatoes are baking, put the butter into a saucepan, press the garlic into it, and melt the butter.
  7. Pour the garlic butter over the potatoes, and bake them more, until the garlic turns golden.

Notes

Choose medium-size (but not too small) young potatoes that don’t need peeling.

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