All hail the roast potato.
This celebrated side is – in our humble opinion – the most important component in a roast dinner.
Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, there’s nothing quite like biting down into one of these golden nuggets.
Our new recipe is an upgrade on the traditional roast potato.
Not only are our roasties infused with lemon and coated in polenta (cornmeal) to make them extra crispy, but they’re low waste, too.
We roast the skins to create delicious salty crisps.
Delicious!
Low-Waste Lemon & Polenta Roast PotatoesSuper crispy Lemon & Polenta Roast Potatoes. Oh, and they’re low-waste too 🙌
Posted by So Vegan on Monday, 14 December 2020

Low-Waste Lemon & Polenta Crispy Roast Potatoes
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1.2kg / 42.3oz Maris Piper potatoes
- salt & pepper
- 5 tbsp vegetable oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 1 1/2 tbsp polenta
- 1 lemon
- 6 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 6 garlic cloves
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220°C / 428°F fan. Rinse then peel the potatoes and spread the skins across a large baking tray. Sprinkle the skins with salt and pepper and drizzle with vegetable oil. Toss to combine then roast for 20-25 minutes, turning halfway until golden and crispy.
- Meanwhile slice any large potatoes in half, then add them to a saucepan of cold water. Bring the water to the boil and boil the potatoes for 10 minutes. Then drain the potatoes and leave them to fully cool in a colander or on a tray.
- Once the potatoes are mostly cool, add the vegetable oil to a medium-sized roasting tin and place the tin in the oven so that the oil heats up.
- Add the potatoes back to the saucepan, pop the lid on and give the potatoes a good shake. Then zest the lemon until you have 1 tsp of zest and add it to the saucepan along with 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper and the polenta. Stir until the potatoes are fully coated. Remove the tray with the hot oil from the oven. Carefully add the potatoes to the hot oil then give them a stir in the oil and roast for 40 minutes.
- Cut 1/2 of the lemon into thin slices and pick the leaves off the sprigs of thyme.
- Remove the potatoes from the oven, then throw in the lemon slices, thyme leaves, garlic cloves and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice from the remaining lemon half. Stir to combine then roast again for 20 minutes.
- When you’re ready to serve, add the crispy potato skins to the tray and serve (don’t forget to eat the gorgeous roasted garlic).