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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Lifestyle
Nicola Roy

How to get perfect crispy roast potatoes on Christmas Day and the mistake to avoid

Roast potatoes are arguably one of the best parts of Christmas dinner but so many of us end up with mush in the oven tray and no crisp.

A perfectly done roastie - fluffy on the inside with a delicious crispy and flavoursome coating - can be the star of the dinner on Christmas day but it takes a little bit of fine tuning.

If you're preparing the spuds from scratch this year, you may be wondering how to get the texture just right. But according to a top chef, there's one big mistake that many of us make year after year that apparently stops them from developing that all-important crispy coating.

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