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Confit Potatoes

18th December 2019 - By Michelle Minnaar
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Once you try these confit potatoes, you’ll never go back to the normal potatoes ever again. In fact, confit potatoes are soft, moist and above all delicious.

Plate of confit potatoes

This confit potatoes recipe requires only a few humble ingredients such as your choice of potatoes, olive oil, herbs and garlic.

There’s not much to it. In fact, you can put your own twist to this confit potatoes recipe. For example, you can use herbs such as rosemary, oregano or basil and let the confit potatoes infuse with those herbal flavours.

As you might have guessed, these are not your ordinary boiled potatoes, but something way more sophisticated.

Confit potatoes are an excellent idea as a side dish to a meaty recipe. For example, you can pair the confit potatoes with recipes like this venison roast or this 7-hour slow-roasted shoulder of lamb.

Generally speaking, people always tend to think that it’s all about the meat and forget about the importance of getting the side dish right.

Well, this confit potatoes recipe will impress even those who often oppose potatoes as a side, or think they are too simple.

If you’ve got friends with this mindset, you’ll see that this confit potato recipe will prove them wrong. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

Rosemary confit potatoes easy recipe

All in all, the level of difficulty of this confit potato recipe is very easy. The recipe can be mastered by the most inexperienced cooks; however the results can persuade anyone that the recipe was made by a gourmet chef.

Dare to try this confit potatoes recipe. Forget about ordinary roasted potatoes and try to take your potato side dish to the next level.

My confit potatoes are made with fresh rosemary. The fresh rosemary contains those fragrant essential oils, which allow the potatoes to take on a lovely herbal aroma.

Once finished, it is a totally melt-in-your-mouth experience, with a subtle herbal flavour, that no other potato side dish can match.

Ingredients to make confit potatoes

What is confit style?

In short, confit potatoes is a dish in which the potatoes are ‘poached’ in oil or fat. The potatoes are cooked very slowly at a lower temperature, allowing them to take on a soft texture.

In fact, the term ‘confit’ refers to being preserved. The essential part of confit cooking is to use a high-quality extra virgin olive oil or animal fat (generally duck).

Handy tip: The oil from the confit recipe can be reused. For instance, you can reuse the flavour-infused oil on salads or as a base for cooking other recipes.

Potatoes boiling

In essence, these products are completely reusable for other recipes such as these rosemary potatoes, gluten-free scalloped potatoes recipe or parmentier potatoes.

Confit potatoes in duck fat

As mentioned above, it is completely possible to substitute the olive oil with duck fat. However, this will change the nature of the confit potatoes recipe. In short, it won’t be a vegetarian side dish anymore.

So, please give your guests a fair warning, especially if they are vegans or vegetarians.

Making this type of potato recipe in duck fat is very French inspired. Often, in French cuisine, duck fat is added into stews or into potato recipes for extra flavour.

If you love duck, you should try to pair these potatoes with a delicious duck liver parfait.

Confit potatoes sous vide

Yes, you can use a sous-vide machine for this confit potatoes recipe. The sous-vide cooking style has a very similar effect to the confit cooking style.

In both cases, the cooked ingredient is completely tenderized (cooked in its own juices or in olive oil).

Glazed whole confit potatoes

If you are looking for other inspiring sous-vide recipes, then check these recipes below:

  • Sous-vide brussels sprouts – these babies completely melt in your mouth because they are so tender
  • Sous-vide shoulder of lamb – no one can resist a delicate and tender piece of lamb shoulder (pair this dish with the confit potatoes)
  • and sous-vide salmon – this is a succulent, restaurant-quality recipe

If you’ve purchased a sous-vide machine and don’t know how to make sous-vide recipes with it, then check out these articles:

  • How to sous-vide chicken breasts – a guide for sous-vide chicken
  • How to sous-vide steak – make perfect sous-vide steak

Bacon confit potatoes

You can also infuse these confit potatoes with other types of flavours. For example, you can add bacon. The bacon will provide a smokiness as well as a rich flavour to the potato dish.

Plus, it will make those who love bacon very happy, as they would have discovered a new way to enjoy bacon.

Plate of yellow confit potatoes

Confit potatoes calories

On the whole, potatoes are not the most ideal when it comes to watching calories. First of all, potatoes contain a lot of carbohydrates. Second of all, the additional element of olive oil or duck fat adds even more calories (and mostly fat).

Although olive oil contains a lot of healthy fats, the duck fat is slightly harder to digest by the body. If you are looking out for your waistline, then please be aware of the portion sizes. This will help you monitor your daily calorie intake.

By the way, if you love French cuisine, you should check out these boulangere potatoes. Roast Marrow complements this side dish beautifully.

If you love sweet, spicy and crunchy onions, check out tobacco onions.

Have you ever tried to make confit potatoes before? How would you serve them? Let me know in the comments section below.

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Confit Potatoes


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  • Author: Michelle Minnaar
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 hours
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x
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Learn how to to make confit potatoes at home. You can reuse the oil for cooking, which will have a lovely flavour of garlic and rosemary.


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Ingredients

  • 1kg (2lbs) new potatoes, scrubbed
  • 3 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • 5ml (1 tsp) sea salt
  • 1 litre (4 cups) olive oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 110°C/225°F/gas mark ½.
  2. Place all the ingredients in a large ovenproof saucepan. 
  3. Cover the saucepan with a lid, transfer it to the oven and cook for 90 minutes.
  4. Turn the heat up to 210°C/400°F/gas mark 6 and cook for another 15 minutes.
  5. Drain the potatoes and serve as a side dish for a main meal.

Notes

  • The amount of olive oil you use it up to you. Preferably, you want the oil to cover all the potatoes. 
  • You can use duck fat if you can source it.
  • Wondering what to do with all the leftover oil? Using a coffee filter, you can filter the impurities out and store it in a clean bottle for future cooking. You’ll love it because the oil is infused with garlic and rosemary!
  • Category: Side Dish
  • Method: Confit
  • Cuisine: French

Keywords: potato confit recipe, confit potatoes, French confit recipe, potato side dish, Christmas dinner side dish

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  1. Sam says

    20th December 2019 at 6:51 pm

    roast potatoes are my absolute fave!

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  2. melanie stirling says

    21st December 2019 at 12:06 am

    Gratin dauphinois potatoes are very delicious.

    Reply
  3. Martin Leyland says

    21st December 2019 at 2:01 am

    Sliced potato gently braised with butter, cheese and sauerkraut

    Reply
  4. Alica says

    21st December 2019 at 2:28 am

    I love garlic roast potatoes! YUM!

    Reply
  5. Emma Nixon says

    21st December 2019 at 7:07 pm

    I like a spicy potato side dish. Bombay Aloo.

    Reply
  6. JJ VAN ZYL says

    22nd December 2019 at 6:19 pm

    For the recipe 5 stars
    for the effort to get to the recipe 0/5

    Can you try to shorten the stories before you get to the recipe?
    prep time 10 minutes
    reading time 20-30 minutes
    it does not make sense!!

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    • Michelle Minnaar says

      6th January 2020 at 3:54 pm

      Hi JJ, I’m glad you like the recipe. I’m sorry you don’t like all the writing before reaching the recipe though. The text is there to provide as much assistance as possible for you to achieve the desired results. Without the text, Greedy Gourmet wouldn’t rank well in Google search results and I depend on search traffic to create ad revenue in order to create free recipes to my readers at my own cost. I hope it all makes sense. 🙂

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  7. pete c says

    26th December 2019 at 11:36 pm

    Potato au Gratin tends to be my preferred side dish though “confit” is something I’m now going to try

    Reply
  8. Jan COX says

    27th December 2019 at 8:40 am

    Potato salad

    Reply
  9. Solange says

    2nd January 2020 at 3:09 am

    Garlic Butter Potatoes.

    Reply
  10. cheryl hadfield says

    2nd January 2020 at 9:37 pm

    My favourite potato dish is Salad potatoes with spring onions , chorizo an patatas bravas sauce

    Reply
  11. Jade Hewlett says

    3rd January 2020 at 4:38 pm

    My favourite potato side dish is potato salad

    Reply
  12. Kim Neville says

    4th January 2020 at 11:28 pm

    I like dauphinois potatoes

    Reply
  13. Nicola Sadler says

    13th January 2020 at 1:04 pm

    My favourite potato side dish is dauphinoise! Buttery, creamed potatoes – yum!

    Reply
  14. Robyn Clarke says

    14th January 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Potato skins drizzled with olive oil, sprinkle of herbs

    Reply
  15. olivia Kirby says

    15th January 2020 at 9:48 pm

    Boulangere potatoes are lovely!! I love the potatoes nice and thin and crispy around the slices!

    Reply
  16. Jemma Cutts says

    15th January 2020 at 10:02 pm

    Crispy Hassleback potatoes 😊😊

    Reply
  17. lia sturman says

    27th January 2020 at 7:58 pm

    Garlic Butter Potatoes.

    Reply
  18. sharon martin says

    29th January 2020 at 12:52 pm

    I like garlic butter potatoes wedges

    Reply

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