spicy hasselback potatoes

🥘 Ingredients

• • potatoes
• • butter
• • paprika
• • ground cumin
• • salt
• • cayenne pepper

📝 Instructions

1. 1 the oven temperature will depend on what else you are cooking at the time
2. 2 anything between a moderate and high heat will be fine for these potatoes
3. 3 grease a baking tin or tray
4. 4 wash potatoes well but do not peel
5. 5 cut a thin slice from the base of each potato so that they will sit flat on a cutting board
6. 6 place a potato on the cutting board and lay a wooden spoon alongside the length of it
7. 7 this stops you from cutting right through to the bottom of the potato
8. 8 now , using a sharp knife , held at right angles to the wooden spoon , thinly slice the potato but do not cut all the way to the bottom
9. 9 repeat until all potatoes are sliced in this way
10. 10 place potatoes into the baking tin
11. 11 now , using a pastry brush , brush butter or margarine over the top of each potato and use the brush to carefully push some of the butter down between the slices
12. 12 reserve some butter or margarine to baste during cooking
13. 13 bake for around 45 minutes at 180-220c before adding spice mixture
14. 14 while the potatoes are cooking , combine the ingredients for the spice topping in a small bowl and mix well
15. 15 after 45 minutes , brush the reserved melted butter or margarine over the potatoes then sprinkle the potatoes with the spice mixture
16. 16 return potatoes to the oven and bake for a further 15 minutes or until brown and crispy