Salt and Vinegar Potatoes
by Nigella. Featured in AT MY TABLEIntroduction
While steaming then roasting potatoes may seem rather a fandango, one bite of these will convince you that it's utterly worth it; besides, it's not as if you have to do anything while they either steam or roast.
Go slowly when adding the salt and vinegar, tasting as you go, as I like these to have the wincing hit of salt and vinegar crisps, and you may prefer a lighter hand with the sprinkling.
For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
While steaming then roasting potatoes may seem rather a fandango, one bite of these will convince you that it's utterly worth it; besides, it's not as if you have to do anything while they either steam or roast.
Go slowly when adding the salt and vinegar, tasting as you go, as I like these to have the wincing hit of salt and vinegar crisps, and you may prefer a lighter hand with the sprinkling.
For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Ingredients
Serves: 2
- 500 grams baby new potatoes
- 3 x 15ml tablespoons regular olive oil
- 2½ teaspoons raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar (or to taste)
- 1½ teaspoons Maldon sea salt flakes (or to taste)
- 1 pound 2 ounces baby white potatoes
- 3 tablespoons regular olive oil
- 2½ teaspoons raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar (or to taste)
- 1½ teaspoons kosher salt (or to taste)
Method
- Steam the baby new potatoes until tender (this takes 20-30 minutes). When cooked, turn off the heat, pour off the water from the pan below the steam pan, then sit the perforated pan on top of the empty, hot pan with the lid off to dry the potatoes. If it makes your life easier, you can steam the potatoes a couple of hours in advance as it would be fine roasting them once they're cooled, so long as they haven't been in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC Fan/425ºF then pour the oil into a small, shallow roasting tin and heat it in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Tip the potatoes out onto a plate, and crush with a fork, but not too throughly. You want some of them crumbling into small pieces, but mostly think of more-or-less halving, leaving rough edges, the better to crisp and brown in the oven.
- Take the tin out of the oven, carefully turn the potatoes in the oil and then roast for 20 minutes, then turn them and cook for a further 10 minutes until they are deep golden brown in parts and the rough edges are crisp; the smaller pieces will be dark and crunchy.
- Remove to a serving bowl and sprinkle with vinegar and salt, then taste one of the potatoes — ultimate sacrifice — to see if you need to add more of either.
- Steam the baby white potatoes until tender (this takes 20-30 minutes). When cooked, turn off the heat, pour off the water from the pan below the steam pan, then sit the perforated pan on top of the empty, hot pan with the lid off to dry the potatoes. If it makes your life easier, you can steam the potatoes a couple of hours in advance as it would be fine roasting them once they're cooled, so long as they haven't been in the fridge.
- Preheat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC Fan/425ºF then pour the oil into a small, shallow roasting tin and heat it in the oven for 5 minutes.
- Tip the potatoes out onto a plate, and crush with a fork, but not too throughly. You want some of them crumbling into small pieces, but mostly think of more-or-less halving, leaving rough edges, the better to crisp and brown in the oven.
- Take the tin out of the oven, carefully turn the potatoes in the oil and then roast for 20 minutes, then turn them and cook for a further 10 minutes until they are deep golden brown in parts and the rough edges are crisp; the smaller pieces will be dark and crunchy.
- Remove to a serving bowl and sprinkle with vinegar and salt, then taste one of the potatoes — ultimate sacrifice — to see if you need to add more of either.
Additional Information
MAKE AHEAD/STORE:
The potatoes can be steamed up to 2 hours ahead. Refrigerate leftovers for up to 5 days and eat cold.
MAKE AHEAD/STORE:
The potatoes can be steamed up to 2 hours ahead. Refrigerate leftovers for up to 5 days and eat cold.
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Show more commentsBest potatoes I have ever had. Easy to make.
I went shopping with 3 friends for birthday party supplies. We were in Coles (Melbourne Aus) and I was talking incessantly about these potatoes when a woman came over and said "okay! Your potatoes sound incredible, tell me what I need!" So she gave me her phone and I directed her here and she gleefully rushed off to get what she needed! They are so good that merely saying their name invokes a new fan!
Absolutely delicious!! I bookmarked this recipe a long time ago and finally I have made it. It really wasn't a hassle to steam the potatoes first and it was well worth the effort! I loved them!!!
I think subbing malt vinegar for the apple cider vinegar would be delicious!
So, so good. You can have them with anything you like but I like to eat them on their own as film food (at home).
I make these all the time. They remind me of England. They are my ideal accompaniment to Nigella’s Chicken and Pea Tray Bake. I know it’s expensive, but I often substitute duck fat for the olive oil and tend to prefer them roasted this way instead. Bravo!
Even quicker if you steam them using a pressure cooker.