Potatoes Roasted With Olive Oil And Bay Leaves Recipes

POTATOES ROASTED WITH OLIVE OIL AND BAY LEAVES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Using small sharp knife and working on 1 potato, make 5 crosswise vertical cuts, spaced evenly apart, from 1 side to other side (do not cut through). Place potato in 13x9x2-inch broilerproof baking dish. Repeat with remaining potatoes. Add some of oil to dish and toss potatoes to coat. Slide 1 bay leaf into each cut in each potato. Mix salt, herbs, and pepper in small bowl and sprinkle over potatoes. Roast potatoes until tender, about 55 minutes. Remove dish from oven. Preheat broiler. Drizzle remaining oil over potatoes. Broil until potatoes begin to brown, about 4 minutes.
• *A dried herb mixture available at specialty foods stores and in the spice section of some supermarkets. A combination of dried thyme, basil, savory, and fennel seeds can be substituted.

ROASTED POTATOES WITH BAY LEAVES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine oil and bay leaves in small skillet. Cook over medium heat just until warm. Remove from heat. Let stand 15 minutes so that bay leaves flavor oil.
• Toss potatoes with bay leaf oil in large roasting pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast until potatoes are brown and tender, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes. Discard bay leaves. Transfer potatoes to bowl and serve.

EMBER-ROASTED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Prepare a fire and let the charcoal burn down to a bed of embers, coals, and ashes for rescoldo. If cooking indoors, preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
• Bury the sweet potatoes in the embers, coals, and ashes, making sure they are completely and evenly covered. Roast until they are tender all the way through. If cooking indoors, arrange the sweet potatoes on a sheet pan and roast for about 45 minutes, or until tender all the way through. The cooking time will vary depending on the size of the sweet potatoes: after about 20 minutes, part the embers with long-handled tongs and try to pierce a sweet potato all the way through with a long bamboo skewer. It will probably meet with some resistance toward the center and feel about half baked. Turn the potatoes over with the tongs and replace the embers and ashes, adjusting them as necessary for even cooking, and roast for about 20 minutes longer. When the sweet potatoes are done, carefully dig them out and wipe off the ashes with a dish towel or paper towels.
• Turn the potatoes over with the tongs and replace the embers and ashes, adjusting them as necessary for even cooking, and roast for about 20 minutes longer. When the sweet potatoes are done, carefully dig them out and wipe off the ashes with a dish towel or paper towels.
• If serving simply with butter and crushed red pepper flakes, split the sweet potatoes open, add a tablespoon of butter to each, and season to taste with fleur de sel and red pepper flakes. Otherwise, omit the butter, fleur de sel, and red pepper flakes, and continue to the next step.
• If serving with yogurt and almond-mint gremolata, make the gremolata while the potatoes are roasting. Whisk together the parsley, mint, almonds, olive oil, honey, and lemon zest in a small bowl. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.
• When the sweet potatoes are done, cool them very slightly, then cut them crosswise in half. With your fingers protected by a dish towel, slowly push the skin inward so the insides explode up from the top. Transfer the sweet potatoes to serving plates. Sprinkle with fleur de sel to taste, drizzle with olive oil, and add a large spoonful of cold yogurt to each potato. Spoon some gremolata over the yogurt and serve the rest on the side.

POTATOES WITH BAY LEAVES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Make a deep slit lengthwise in each potato, almost to the point of cutting it in half.
• Sprinkle salt and pepper inside the potatos and tuck in the bay leaves, 2 per potato.
• Put the potatoes in a baking dish and drizzle with olive oil, smearing some on the insides as well as making sure the outsides are well coated.
• Push the potato halves back together; sprinkle their outsides with salt and pepper.
• Bake for about 1 hour; the potatoes are done when you can easily poke a thin-bladed knife right through them; serve immediately.

ROASTED BABY HASSELBACK POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place 2 chopsticks on a cutting board with a potato lengthwise between the chopsticks. Slice the potato into 1/8-inch slices along its length, using the chopsticks as a guide so you don't cut all the way through. Repeat to cut remaining potatoes.
• Insert 1 bay leaf inside each sliced potato.
• Heat olive oil and butter in a roasting pan over medium heat. Add potatoes and garlic in a single layer and season generously with salt and pepper. Move potatoes around until coated all over and cook until browned a bit, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Transfer the roasting pan to the preheated oven and roast until potatoes are crisp and golden, about 30 minutes.

OVEN ROASTED VEGETABLES WITH ROSEMARY,BAY LEAVES AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200*C 425*F.
• Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, add salt and the potatoes and cook for 5 minutes.
• Drain, then put ina large baking tin.
• Add the squash, onions and 2 TBs of the oil.
• Toss to coat, then roast in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Add 1 extra TBS oil to the baking tin, followed by the garlic and peppers, 2 sprigs of rosemary and 2 sprigs of bay leaves.
• Roast for 15 minutes, then add the rest of the herbs and continue roasting for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Turn the vegetables occasionally until they are all tender and the edges are slightly charred.
• Train the remaining oil over the top, then serve.