Crispy Potato Roast

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons butter, melted
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
10 - 12 russet potatoes, peeled
Kosher salt
1 small onion or 4 shallots, peeled and sliced very thin
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
4 - 6 fresh thyme sprigs
About 3 ounces pancetta, cubed

Instructions

• Preheat kitchen appliance to 375 degrees.

• Combine the oil and dissolved butter in an exceedingly tiny dish. Set aside.

• Brush a spherical baking dish (around nine - ten inches) with a touch of the butter and oil mixture.

• Slice the potatoes as skinny as potential crosswise - attempt to keep the potato slices along as you chop every potato. prepare potatoes vertically within the baking dish. Wedge onion or shallot slices throughout potato slices - in regarding three or four sections of every potato. Sprinkle with salt and pepper flakes (use some black pepper if not mistreatment red pepper flakes). Brush with the remaining butter and oil mixture.

• Bake for one hour and twenty five minutes. cowl loosely with foil throughout the primary thirty minutes of baking. a touch of the olive oil/butter from all-time low of the baking dish ought to be brushed/spooned onto the slices some times throughout baking (much like basting a turkey). Also, a table knife is wont to separate a number of the slices if there area unit some protruding along an excessive amount of throughout baking.

• While potatoes area unit baking, crisp pancetta in an exceedingly tiny pan. take away with a slotted spoon and drain on towel. Set aside.

• Remove potatoes from kitchen appliance. Add pancetta by scattering around throughout the potatoes. Lay the thyme sprigs on prime of potatoes.

• Bake for a further thirty five minutes. take away from kitchen appliance.

• Sprinkle on a touch a lot of kosher salt. Serve like a shot. soured cream could be a nice accompaniment to the potatoes.