Karen Wright: Hassle-free Hasselback potatoes served with baked salmon fillet
However, sometimes an everyday utensil can come in very handy. For example, when making Hasselback potatoes, a healthy and attractive way of cooking potatoes.
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Hide AdOriginating in Sweden, they are roast potatoes, cut just over halfway through into fan-like slices, rubbed with oil and spices, and baked in the oven.
It can be quite difficult to slice through the potato without cutting right through so here are a couple of hacks.
Use a metal skewer and push it right through, about a third of the way from the bottom horizontally. The skewer stops the knife and you can make nice thin slices. Then remove the skewer.
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Hide AdNigella Lawson recommends using a wooden spoon. The potato sits in the spoon and the raised edges stop the knife cutting all the way through.
I serve my hassle-free potatoes with salmon. I try to include an oily fish a couple of times a week. Salmon and mackerel are my favourites.
Salmon is so easy to cook. I usually bake it in the oven for about ten minutes and then just give it a squeeze of lemon and grind of salt. Delicious!
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For more tips and recipes go to http://www.karenwrightbakes.co.uk
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