new potatoes baked in parchment
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients
per person:
1 sheet baking parchment
5 small new potatoes
5 cloves of garlic unpeeled -
wet garlic can also be used
small branch rosemary or
several branches of thyme
1 tbsp virgin olive oil
salt & black pepper
Instructions
The idea for this came from Alice Waters at Chez Panisse.
1. If the potatoes are large - cut in half, wash, but leaves skins on. Preheat oven to 200ºC (gas mark 6).
2. Fold the baking parchment in half to make a crease; open and lay potatoes on the lower half. Tuck in garlic and herbs. Pour olive oil over spuds and season with salt and pepper. Bring the rest of the paper down and roll lightly along the edges to form a pouch (a bit like pastry). Make sure that the package is sealed.
3. Bake for 30 minutes and serve immediately. The ‘pastry’ packages will “puff up”. The packages are best opened at the table.
