Party Stripe Roasted Potatoes

Total Time: 54 mins Preparation Time: 14 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup bacon drippings (grease)
• 4 medium potatoes, russett, unpeeled, washed
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 take each potato and peel a 2-3 inch strip around the middle of each potato.
• 2 in medium frying pan add the bacon grease.
• 3 and heat medium.
• 4 put all the potatoes in the pan and turn once in a while, the potatoes will brown on the stripe. take out of the pan when all sides of the peeled stripe are brown on each potato.
• 5 preheat oven to 400*.
• 6 sprinkle with salt and pepper and place on a baking pan.
• 7 note: if you are cooking more than four potatoes, cook four at a time and place on the baking pan,then cook four more.
• 8 all of them should go in the oven at the same time.
• 9 pop them in the oven and cook about 40 minutes for medium potatoes.
• 10 note for make ahead:.
• 11 refrigerate the baked potatoes, be careful not to break the brown crust on the stripe of each potato.
• 12 preheat the oven to 400*.
• 13 place the cooled potatoes on the baking sheet, there should be enough grease on the potatoes. to be safe, you can spray pam on the baking sheet before placing.
• 14 cook to heat 15 minutes.
• 15 you can also put the baked cooled potatoes in a roaster with a roast that has been cooking. put in the last 20 minutes before the roast is done.
• 16 these potatoes are especially delicious with roasted lemon chicken.