I love the English approach to making roasted potatoes for a big Sunday dinner, where the potatoes are often boiled before being coated in fat and roasted in the oven. While the entire process takes over an hour, it is well-worth the effort. You can use the same technique for cooking sweet potatoes, which is perhaps a bit better for you. I add butter, rosemary, and thyme towards the end of the cooking process, which is optional.
Ingredients
3sweet potatoes(left whole)
¼cupsunflower seed oil
2tspKosher salt
2sprigs fresh rosemary
4sprigs fresh thyme
2Tbspbutter
¼tspfreshly-ground black pepper
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 380˚F.
Place the sweet potatoes onto a sheet tray and bake the sweet potatoes for roughly 40 minutes, or until they are completely tender.
Carefully remove the skins from the potatoes, and cut the flesh into bite-sized chunks.
Increase the oven temperature to 425˚F.
Combine the pieces of sweet potatoes with the sunflower seed oil and Kosher salt, and return them to the oven to bake.
*Make sure the potatoes are evenly covered in the sunflower oil.
Roast the potatoes for an additional 30-40 minutes, turning them halfway through to ensure they get even coloring.
During the last ten minutes of cooking, cut the fresh rosemary leaves and thyme leave into small pieces, and add them to the roasting potatoes with the butter.
When the potatoes are deeply browned and crispy all over, remove them from the oven, add some freshly-ground black pepper, and serve.
Notes
You can eat the potatoes leftover, although they will lose their crunchy exterior after being cooled down and stored in the fridge.