Oven-baked potatoes - Klyftpotatis

It's been eerily quiet in here for a while so I decided to post this simple potato recipe that I made today. It's one of my favourite vegetables and one of the few vegetables that you can never go wrong with. They taste delicious whether deep-fried, baked, roasted, mashed, curried or made into soup. They are not only a comfort food to many, potatoes are also a staple in many countries. Here in Sweden, one of the popular ways to prepare potatoes is by cutting them into 6-8 pieces and baking or roasting them, usually with the skin, with herbs and spices. This way of preparing the potatoes is called klyftpotatis in Swedish. You can season klyftpotatis with endless herbs. I have used a classic Swedish combination, dill and potatoes. You could replace dill with thyme or rosemary.

This recipe deserves to be up here because this is the first time I baked the potatoes without peeling them. Since the skin of potatoes also contains vitamins and minerals, it is often advised to cook them unpeeled. Though, I have no problems eating baked and roasted potatoes served with skin when dining out, I could not make myself prepare the potatoes that way at home until now.

Also, please avoid using any potatoes that have developed green areas. Removing or peeling the green areas is not sufficient to remove the toxins from the potatoes. I baked these in butter but you could replace the butter with a good oil, if you wish, and adjust spices and herbs as per your likings.

Ingredients:
10 small potatoes
2 tbs dill (fresh or frozen)
50 g normal-salted butter
3/4 tsp salt (or to taste)
1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper

Method:
Heat the oven to 200 C (about 400 F). Add the butter in a large oven-safe, ceramic dish and place it in the oven. Rinse and scrub the potatoes under water. Dry and cut the potatoes into wedges. The smaller the less time they'll take to get baked. In a large bowl, add the potatoes, salt, pepper and finely chopped dill and mix well until the all the potatoes are well-coated with the herbs and spices. Once the butter has melted, bring the ceramic dish out of the oven and place all the potatoes in there and put back in the oven. Bake the potatoes for about 30 minutes or so until soft. Serve them warm with anything of your choice!