Quick and Easy Spicy Oven Baked New Potatoes

For a very simple way of cooking potatoes and adding a bit of spice to them, especially if you are busy and don't have a lot of time spare this is a recipe you should try!

Heat oven to Gas Mark 6 or Electric 200C

You will need:-

500g of new potatoes, scrubbed clean and halved
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of margarine or butter
1 fresh red or green chili, finely chopped
3 spring onions, chopped
1 large tomato roughly chopped
2 cloves of garlic, crushed or finely chopped
Fresh herbs finely chopped, whatever you have in the house, I use fresh coriander, mint or thyme
Freshly ground black pepper
Salt to taste

In a roasting tin put in the oil and margarine then put it in the oven, leave for approx 3 minutes until you hear the oil sizzling.

Remove roasting tin from the oven and add all the other ingredients; the potatoes, tomato, spring onions, garlic, chili, fresh herbs, pepper and salt. Mix well ensuring that the potatoes are covered well with the oil.

Return roasting tin to the oven and cook for approx 45 minutes to one hour, until potatoes are well browned. Remove from the oven and serve hot.

Also taste great cold.

If you want to cook them over hot coals on a barbecue they should be covered with foil and stirred occasionally. They go great with grilled or barbecued food and a nice green salad.