Make roast potatoes even more delicious by adding this 7p ingredient

While many of you might be good cooks, there are a lot of dishes you might feel like you just never manage to get to the level of good restaurants. There are often some simple but secret hacks that chefs use in order to give foods the perfect texture and flavour.

Sam Stern who is a chef and TikToker has just revealed one such super simple trick to get your roast potatoes to be perfect: crispy on the outside yet fluffy on the inside.

The secret ingredient

Stern shares cooking recipes and tricks on his TikTok @samsterncooks. His video on how to make the best roast potatoes has proven very popular with viewers, already raking in more than 2 million views. He captions his video by saying,

There’s a few sneaky tricks on how to make the best roast potatoes in the world.

The chef then proceeds to show the tricks he employs, the most surprising among them is the use of chicken stock cube, which costs only about 7p, but makes a world of difference to the roast potatoes' texture.

Take your roast potatoes up a notch

Here’s how the chef makes his roast potatoes.

• Peel your potatoes and put them to parboil, adding in salt and bicarbonate soda.
• Meanwhile, take the chicken stock cube and combine it with oil.
• Put fat on your baking tray and let it get hot in the oven
• Once the oil is hot, place the parboiled potatoes on the tray. Add in garlic, rosemary and thyme
• Then add the oil and chicken stock mix
• Add salt, combine everything well, and roast in the oven for 25 minutes
• Turn the potatoes and then roast for 5 more minutes

Enjoy the most delicious roast potatoes ever.

The secret hack has managed to impress many home cooks and fans, with the video garnering more than 100k likes.

Sources used:

TikTok: @samsterncooks