Garlic & Rosemary, Crispy Roast Potatoes With Skins

Anything made from potato is always comforting and hits the spot when you fancy something warm and carb-loaded, right?

These garlic and rosemary, crispy roast potatoes with skins ON are the perfect collaboration of comfort food, but made as healthy as possible with high fibre ingredients and healthful herbs and spices.

Why Is This The Best Roast Potatoes Recipe?

This easy roast potato recipe is easily the best recipe out there, because we have combined being health conscious without compromising on flavour in any way.

In fact, these garlic and rosemary, crispy roast potatoes have it all when it comes to taste and nutrition.

For example:

FIBRE

Firstly, making your perfect roast potatoes in this manner means you have fibre from the skins, which also enhances the crispiness.

But more than that, fibre helps to keep blood sugar stable, keeps you fuller for longer, thus promoting weight loss, AND helps to keep your regular.

Adding lots of fibre-rich foods in the form of whole plant foods will boost your health in many ways, and these delicious roasties are just one of them.

GARLIC

These best ever roast potatoes contain lots of WHOLE garlic cloves, which are highly beneficial to the body in many ways, including boosting immunity, heart health, tons of antioxidants, and may also promote the lowering of blood pressure and bad cholesterol.

Garlic is also an excellent anti-fungal, good for the gut, and is a powerful anti inflammatory too!

ROSEMARY

These delicious roast potatoes made in the over or air-fryer also contain lots of fresh rosemary.

Rosemary is an amazing herb that has many wonderful health benefits, including being an anti inflammatory to help lower chronic inflammation in the body, a powerful anti fungal, is high in protective antioxidants, is good for the brain as it improves memory, concentration, and cognitive performance, is good for the respiratory system, and promotes good hair and nails.

COCONUT OIL

You do not need to use oil in this simple roast potato recipe, but it does make them extra special. You can also make them whole foods plant based and completely omit the oil if you wish.

We have only used a little oil in the form of coconut, simply because coconut really enhances the flavour of the potatoes with the garlic and rosemary. All those flavours work wonderfully together to bring you an awesome roast potato that will impress your family and friends.

Plus, coconut oil is an oil with health benefits, including being antimicrobial and antioxidant. This, along with potential weight loss benefits due to it increasing the metabolism, coconut oil seems to be the oil of choice if you are going to use oils in your diet sparingly.

Coconut oil also increases HDL cholesterol levels, which is good for heart health when used in moderation. Much better than any other oil at least.

POTATOES

Potatoes are an inexpensive, highly healthful food when eaten with skins on, especially.

The humble white potato provides essential vitamins, minerals, fibre, and antioxidants. These include potassium, B6, vitamin C, iron, magnesium, folate – all contributing to bone health, energy production, a strong immune system, gut health, and heart health when eaten on a regular basis in a HEALTHY way, such as this roast potato recipe.

What To Serve With Garlic & Rosemary Roasted Potatoes

Roast potatoes make the perfect side to almost ALL dishes, but of course, the British roast dinner is what they are most famous for.

You can, however, eat them in a variety of different ways and they will be equally as delicious.

Here’s some perfect ways to eat your classic roast potatoes and be utterly satisfied:-

• Eat alone as a meal in themselves, or a hearty snack.
• Serve as a side with your roast dinner.
• Our favourite way to serve crispy roast potatoes with skins on is with this low-fat, cauliflower cheese made from white beans.
• Serve as a side to our charred cabbage steaks in a delicious, creamy sauce for dipping.
• Sprinkle with 2 minute parmesan cheese for s cheesy twist that works.
• Why not serve with a plant based chili beans for a change from rice. This works well too!
• Eat with chili-lemon broccoli for a complete meal that needs no other elements.
• Serve with protein-rich split peas for another complete meal example.
• How about our famous, homemade sausage burgers with your garlic and rosemary crispy roast potatoes?
• Another great side to your roasties is another protein-rich vegetable like our chili-lemon-parrmesan asparagus. Again, this will help make a ‘complete’ meal with this dish.
• Go a la Cowboy-style by serving your roast potatoes with some hunky dory BBQ bakes beans.
• Last, but not least, you cannot go wrong serving your over roasted potatoes with a good old, comforting stew such as this butterbean and Swiss chard version, OR this sweet potato slow-cooker stew.

Garlic & Rosemary, Crispy Roast Potatoes With Skins

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 55 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, British

Servings 4

Calories 450 kcal

Equipment

• Chopping board
• Chopping knife
• Large saucepan
• Large baking pan

Ingredients

  

• 6-8 large potatoes, skins scrubbed Use white or red baking potatoes, or fluffy potatoes.
• 1 large whole bulb garlic Use 2 if you love garlic or can only find small bulbs.
• 2 Tbsp fresh rosemary Finely chopped.
• 2-3 Tbsp coconut oil Extra virgin, organic is best.
• Salt and pepper To taste.

Instructions

 

• Scrub your potatoes and chop into 4-6 pieces with skins on.
• Simmer potatoes in a large pan of salted water until completely soft.
• Meanwhile turn oven on to 190C (375F) and begin your other prep.

  Remove all cloves from your garlic bulb and place on a chopping board. With the blunt side of a heavy chopping knife, squash the cloves down into the chopping board to release their flavours. You do not need to squash too much , just enough for them to break open.

  Any loose skins that fall off, just throw away, otherwise you can leave the clove skins attached if you so wish.

  Chop your fresh rosemary finely with your chopping knife.
• About 5 minutes before your potatoes are cooked, add your large pan to the top half of your oven with the coconut oil in. Let it get hot!
• Once your potatoes are fully cooked, drain as well as you can. Do not leave excess water in there if you can help it.

  Shake potatoes about a little in the saucepan to 'roughen' edges up, as this helps with crispiness.

  Add your potatoes to your hot pan, along with your garlic, rosemary, and salt and pepper to taste. Gently combine well.
• Cook your roast potatoes for around 30 minutes, or until golden.

  Gently turn half way through cooking time to redistribute the herbs and spices
• remove from oven and serve immediately to keep them as crispy as possible.

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