World Flavors Cookbook

Batatas a Murro (Punched Potatoes)

Name: Batatas a Murro (Punched Potatoes)
Cook time: 30 min
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: 1 kg small potatoes; Coarse salt; Olive oil; 6 cloves garlic

Small whole potatoes boiled or roasted, then "punched" to crack the skin and finished with olive oil and garlic.

Cuisine: Portugal

Ingredients

1 kg small potatoes
Coarse salt
Olive oil
6 cloves garlic

Instructions

1. Boil potatoes with their skins on until tender. 2. Drain and give each potato a gentle "punch" with a spoon or your palm to break the skin. 3. Sauté lots of garlic in olive oil. 4. Pour the hot garlic oil over the potatoes and season with coarse salt.