Phil's ultimate roast potatoes

The perfect recipe for the ultimate roast potatoes!

Ingredients:

1 kg peeled potatoes, Desiree, King Edwards, Maris Piper are all good roasters.200g good beef dripping, duck, goose fat or lardsalt and freshly milled black pepper

Method:

• Pre heat the oven to 200 Degrees C, Gas 7.

• Place a pan of cold water on the stove and bring to the boil.

• Pop in the potatoes cut into large 1/4 ‘s, add a little salt.

• Bring back to the boil and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the outsides start to fall away, carefully drain.

• Place the dripping in a baking tray, pop into the hot oven and heat for 10 minutes, or until just smoking.

• When drained, remove the tray from the oven carefully add the potatoes to the hot fat, season well with salt and pepper and pop into the oven, cook for 35-40 minutes.

• When the bottoms are very crisp and golden, turn over and return to the oven, cook for a further 35-40 minutes, until both sides are crisp and golden.

• The inside will be soft and powdery with 2 crunchy edges, perfect!

• Serve piping hot.