Spice up your life – Spicy Oven Roasted Potatoes
“Only a mediocre man is always at his best.” ~W. Somerset Maugham I’m don’t like citations much but when I heard this one earlier today, I fell in love. I have very strong feelings about mediocrity and how it rules the world; it seems to me that mediocrity is what people feel safe with and therefore like the most. I dislike when I produce mediocre work in whatever field it may be, I rather have it be plain bad or good, not covered with that dull blanket of boredom. I can’t understand how some people stick with a winning formula forever without even trying to evolve and develop. Yes changing and trying to go further will make you stumble and fall now and then, you will take the wrong turn and have to steer back and change but heck, it makes you move forwards and go somewhere, you prove to yourself that you dare to change, that you rose to that challenge called creativity.
So now I have that off my chest, I should talk about the recipe but no no, I want to explain why I have changed to shortened posts that you have to click on a link to read more of. Recently I have had problems accessing Lucullian but it solved itself after a while but when I started getting messages from readers who had the same problem, I had to look into it and this seemed to be the solution. I never liked this kind of shortened posts myself but unfortunately here we are. Now over to the recipe:
SPICY OVEN ROASTED POTATOES
4 servings
16-20 small quite new potatoes, you need at least 4 per person as they are small
1,5 tsp fennel seeds
1,5 tsp cumin seeds
1,5 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp pepper corns
a pinch of chili pepper
1 tsp salt (you can always add salt later but not the opposite…)
4 tbsp freshly grated parmesan cheese or some other tasty hard cheese
2-3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
Cut the potatoes in half length wise leaving them with the skin on and boil them for 5 minutes at the most (the time depends on how small they are). Tak them up and let them dry.
Chop or pestle the spices until you have a rough powder. You can also run them in a spice grinder or blender.
Mix spices with parmesan, salt and olive oil.
Put the potatoes in a greased oven-proof form or a parchment paper. Divide the spice paste on top of each potato half and bake in a pre-heated oven (225°C/440°F) for 15-20 minutes or until golden. They are good to eat hot or cold.
I so agree with you Ilva. I hate getting stuck in a rut and also strive to move forward. In my opinion there is nothing mediocre about you bella. And you have just delivered me the perfect potatoes for my tandoori roasted chicken this weekend!
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Oh so I will be present at your meal-yay!
I adored these little spicy potatoes! The risk of change is balanced out with the thrill of new successes later on, or sometimes better the acquired knowledge that “I’ll never to that again.” Settling, is really not the final solution then, eh? I watch your forward motion with delight Ilva.
Thanks Robin!
I love the look and sound of this.
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I think this is lovely…definitely one to zazz up my potato dishes. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
What a great idea for potatoes! I lovelovelove spicy, and potatoes are the perfect canvas for these spices. And with this idea, there’s no telling where we can take it.
I love these photos. That ultramarine blue is almost the perfect complement to the color of the potatoes.
Happy Monday!
Thanks Kate-happy Monday to you too!
I love so many of your recipes and I have the habit of copy&pasting them. Unfortunately, the last 3 or so times I’ve tried to do so, instead of getting the recipe, I just get a superimposed window and a list of other recipe ‘choices’ instead of a reformatted copy of the recipe I’ve just viewed.
Any ideas as to what the problem could be or what I might be doing incorrectly would be greatly appreciated.
I copied and pasted the text part of the recipe and it worked perfectly. Then I tried to copy and paste the whole post and that was a disaster! Now I don’t know how you do your copying and pasting but if you copy and paste the text, there doesnt seem to be any bugs on this side. If you c&p the whole post, it doesn’t work. I hope this is of some help. Is there anyone else reading this who have had this problem?
Was stuck there for a moment in my mediocre zone before I got the message, spicy potatoes, or not, I, too, vote for the changing, the trying, the stumbling, the falling down, and the taking the wrong turns. You said it, Girl!