The idea of making potatoes in the oven that come out all crispy on the outside and soft on the inside is probably something that most of us associate to our mums or grannies and probably with Sunday lunches.
Here is an alternative which is simple to make (a bit time-consuming) but looks really cool.
Peel a few potatoes (this will depend on the size of your oven dish) and then slice the potatoes as thinly as you can, always keeping the slices in order, thereby keeping the original potato shape. Now peel an onion and do the same thing. In a cup, melt a knob of butter in the microwave and add about two tablespoons of olive oil to it. Spread a little of this mixture to your oven-proof dish and then arrange your potatoes in the dish (standing up), adding some of the onion slices in between the potatoes. Fit as many potatoes into the dish as possible.Next, add salt and black pepper to taste and finally, using the remaining oil and butter mix, baste the potatoes.
Bake in the oven for an hour and ten minutes. Remove and add a sprig of thyme or rosemary and return to the oven (grill if possible) so that everything browns and toasts and becomes nice and crispy. Serve with meat or chicken as an alternative to normal roast potatoes.
