Your Favourite Crispy Roast Potatoes With a Middle Eastern Twist
Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside – add a smoky, aromatic shawarma spice blend to your favourite roasted potatoes for something a little more exciting. Serve with thick garlic yoghurt and a super-easy homemade tomato-based hot sauce. Using a shop-bought shawarma spice is fine, but for the best results, use Flaevors’s Shawarma Spice Blend recipe here. Make a larger batch to store in the cupboard for instant use on recipes such as Easy Oven Chicken Shawarma and Shawarma Beef.
Recipe: Shawarma Roast Potatoes with Homemade Hot Sauce
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Shawarma Roast Potatoes with Homemade Hot Sauce
Crispy shawarma-spiced roast potatoes with garlic yoghurt and homemade hot sauce. Easy, bold, Middle Eastern flavours using Flævor’s Shawarma Spice Blend.
Ingredients
- 800g roasting potatoes
- 1 heaped tbsp of butter
- 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 1 heaped tbsp shawarma spice blend, (recipe on Flaevor here)
- 200ml thick Greek yoghurt
- 1 small garlic clove, crushed
- 1 lemon
Homemade Hot Sauce
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 1 tsp red wine vinegar
- 1 – 2 red birds eye chillies
- 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 1 tbsp water
Instructions
- Garlic yoghurt: Combine yoghurt with crush garlic and a pinch of salt and stir to combine. Return to the fridge untul needed.
- Heat oven to 200°C
- Peel potaoes and cut into large chunks.
- Add butter and oil to a roasting tray and place in the oven for a minute until the butter has melted and the oil is hot.
- Add potatoes along with shawarma spice blend and a good sprinkle of salt. toss around in the butter until the potatoes are coated evenly.
- Roast for 40 minutes, or until crispy on the outside and fluffy in the middle, tossing halfway through to baste the potatoes in the spiced butter again.
- Homemade Chilli Sauce: Blend all ingredients until smooth. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed.
- Serve: Remove the potatoes from the oven, taste, and season with salt as needed. Squeeze lemon juice over the potatoes, and serve with garlic yoghurt and hot sauce.
