Roast potatoes can make or break a Christmas Dinner and those charged with cooking during the festive season will already be fretting about how to get them right on the big day. With all sorts of tricks and techniques doing the rounds, it can be hard to know which advice to listen too.
From which fat to use to whether or not to add Marmite or garlic to the dish before roasting, everyone has their own preferred method. But one-top chef says he has a little-known hack to guarantee “epic” roasties.
Great British Menu winner and owner of Benedicts Restaurant in Norwich, Richard Bainbridge, has revealed to The Mirror his hack to make roast potatoes have amazing flavour - and he claims the tip also works well to spruce up your turkey.
