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#WFD – Festive Fondant Potatoes

Best served with roast beef or chicken and use any remaining juices in the dish as a gravy.

POLOWKANE  – Potatoes are always a hit, in any way shape or form. Adding potatoes to your Christmas lunch menu will have everyone enjoying a hearty meal.

What’s for Dinner  says this restaurant style method of cooking potatoes gives a really rich and buttery potato that is cooked in stock.

Ingredients

8 potatoes, peeled
2 x KNORR Chicken Stock Pot
800ml boiling water
20g butter
5ml Robertsons Thyme

Method

– Preheat oven to 200°C.
– Cut a flat bottom along the longest side of the potatoes and arrange the potatoes in an oven proof dish.
– Dissolve the KNORR Chicken Stock pot in boiling water then pour the stock over the potatoes.
– Place a small knob of butter on top of each potato and sprinkle with thyme.
– Cover with tin foil then bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
– Remove the foil, spoon some of the juices over the potatoes and return to the oven uncovered for a further ten minutes or until the potatoes are tender and golden brown on top.
– Best served with roast beef or chicken and use any remaining juices in the dish as a gravy.

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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