Steps to Prepare Ultimate Fondant potatoes

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, fondant potatoes. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Fondant potatoes is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Fondant potatoes is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Reviews for: Photos of Fondant Potatoes. Learn how to make a Fondant Potatoes recipe! I hope you enjoy this easy Fondant Potatoes recipe! Fondant potatoes — a classic French technique of cooking potatoes — sound sorta fancy, but they're nothing more than large rounds of russet potatoes that are browned in butter and roasted in the oven.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fondant potatoes using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Fondant potatoes:

1. Take 1 large potato (e.g. Maris piper)
2. Take 50 g butter
3. Prepare 100 ml veg stock
4. Get Oil
5. Take 2 cloves garlic
6. Make ready 2-3 sprigs thyme

Fondant potatoes are from the French cuisine with the word 'fondant' meaning "melting". Traditionally, fondant potatoes are peeled and cut into round, barrel-like shapes with the top and bottoms cut flat. Fondant potatoes are thick slices of potato that are cooked in a pan with butter and stock over a fairly high heat so they have a crisp outside and a meltingly soft centre. These easy yet elegant Fondant Potatoes are browned and then baked in creamy butter and rich chicken stock with aromatic fresh herbs.

Instructions to make Fondant potatoes:

1. Peel the potato and chop it in half. Chop the ends off so both sides of the potato are flat.
2. Heat some oil in a frying pan over a medium heat.
3. When hot, pop the potatoes in and leave for 5 mins. You’ll see the base turning golden brown and the sides becoming translucent.
4. Flip the potatoes over and do another 5 mins on the other side.
5. Turn the heat down slightly and add the butter. Be careful because the more it melts the more it spits!
6. Pour in the stock, bash the garlic and thyme and add those to the pan.
7. Reduce heat to a simmer and splash some of the liquid over the potatoes to stop the top from drying.
8. Pop a lid on and leave in the pan for about 30 mins.
9. Serve with the rest of your meal and use the buttery stock as gravy.

Fondant potatoes are thick slices of potato that are cooked in a pan with butter and stock over a fairly high heat so they have a crisp outside and a meltingly soft centre. These easy yet elegant Fondant Potatoes are browned and then baked in creamy butter and rich chicken stock with aromatic fresh herbs. Crispy on the outside, tender and creamy on the inside, cooked with butter and a hint of garlic, these Rosemary Fondant Potatoes make simple yet elegant side dish! Fondant potatoes are a way of preparing the tubers so they are very soft and creamy on the inside, with a crisp crust on the outside. Fondant potatoes may seem to some like a very dated recipe and indeed it was at a "fancy" restaurant back in the Eighties where I first tasted them.

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