Crisp Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

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Appears in Cook's Country April​/May 2012

What would it take to give creamy, delicate fingerlings a crispy edge? Turns out it’s all about drawing out their starch.

SERVES 4

TIME 1 hour

Crisp Roasted Fingerling Potatoes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Roasted potatoes should be easy enough, but too often you wind up with chewy, leathery skins and a mealy interior. To fix the texture of both the potatoes’ exteriors and interiors, we boiled them in a mixture of salt and baking soda. The sa...

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