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Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line a large roasting pan with baking paper. Place 1 potato half on a clean work surface. Place a chopstick along either side of the potato half. Use a small sharp knife to thinly slice potato down to the level of chopsticks at 3mm intervals (this stops you from cutting all the way through). Place, flat-side down, in the prepared pan. Repeat with the remaining potato. Drizzle with 1 tbs oil and season. Roast for 40 mins or until golden and tender.
Step 2
Sprinkle the potato with 1 tbs of the parmesan. Add tomatoes to the roasting pan. Roast for 10 mins or until tomatoes begin to collapse and potato is crisp.
Step 3
Meanwhile, place the parsley, basil, pepitas, garlic and remaining parmesan in a food processor. Process until finely chopped. Add the avocado, lemon juice, remaining oil and 2 tbs water. Process until well combined.
Step 4
Drizzle the potato mixture with parsley pesto to serve.
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Now, if I was a potato, I would be quite offended if you called me a side dish because quite often
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the potato is the star of the meal, and I'm going to show you how to roast them, do a creamy bake,
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a beautiful fancy hasselback potato, even a potato salad can be absolutely fantastic with
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great Aussie grown potatoes, you are in the right place. The first thing you need to do is choose
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the right potato for the right dish. So I'm going to use this beautiful creme gold to make a creamy
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baked potato. Now, the reason the creme gold is the perfect potato for this dish is because it's
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starchy, so it actually thickens up that cream as it cooks down. It also absorbs flavour really
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well. Peel and slice your potato into slices about this thick. We start with thickened cream and some
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milk, garlic and some fresh thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Now, the great thing about this
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potato dish is it takes a while to make, so you can make it well in advance. Get yourself a nice
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big, heavy baking dish just like this one. A quick layer of potatoes on the bottom. No one's going
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to be seeing these bottom layers, so you can make 'em as fancy as you want, or you can just throw it
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down. Get yourself a handful of tasty cheese. So you can either use a vintage cheddar or Gruyere,
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pour over a thin layer of that cream mixture. In between layers, kind of push down on those
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potatoes like that. Now the reason, of course, that you layer these potatoes with the cheese
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and the cream is so that it cooks nice and evenly, and when you cut through it later on,
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that cheese will be beautifully dispersed all the way through. As you get towards the top,
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you can start making these just a little prettier. Knowing that these first couple of layers are the
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ones that people are going to see. 180 degrees for about an hour, don't cover it just straight
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in the oven. The potatoes are done. They've been in for just on an hour. Look at that gorgeousness.
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What could you serve this with? Anything. You could serve it with a piece of grilled fish. You
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could serve it with some roast beef. That's the great thing about potatoes. They make everything
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more delicious. The best part is this is just one incredible potato dish. I've got lots to show you.
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My next potato of choice is the brush potato. Now this is kind of a baked potato, the hasselback,
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but it's much, much more beautiful and it's way more tasty than just a simple baked potato. Here's
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what you do. I want it to have a nice flat edge. So pick the prettiest side and then just trim off
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just a little bit. Cut through the potato, but not all the way through. So here's the trick.
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You get yourself a couple of wooden spoons. Put one on either side, and then you can just
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cut straight on through about a centimetre apart from each other. The last little slice, don't go
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all the way to the bottom. Just cut into it just a little. You can see how it's going to open up
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as it cooks into the melted butter. We put some crushed garlic and a little bit of fresh thyme.
You can't go wrong with hasselback potatoes, especially when paired with a homemade pesto! It's a must-try.
Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line a large roasting pan with baking paper. Place 1 potato half on a clean work surface. Place a chopstick along either side of the potato half. Use a small sharp knife to thinly slice potato down to the level of chopsticks at 3mm intervals (this stops you from cutting all the way through). Place, flat-side down, in the prepared pan. Repeat with the remaining potato. Drizzle with 1 tbs oil and season. Roast for 40 mins or until golden and tender.
Step 2
Sprinkle the potato with 1 tbs of the parmesan. Add tomatoes to the roasting pan. Roast for 10 mins or until tomatoes begin to collapse and potato is crisp.
Step 3
Meanwhile, place the parsley, basil, pepitas, garlic and remaining parmesan in a food processor. Process until finely chopped. Add the avocado, lemon juice, remaining oil and 2 tbs water. Process until well combined.
Step 4
Drizzle the potato mixture with parsley pesto to serve.
