Summary

Servings: 
6
Prep time: 
20 minutes

Description

It's Burns night! Celebrate with this warming traditonal Scottish dish. Start this recipe the day before you'd like to serve it.

Ingredients

  • 8 large baking potatoes, ashed, peel left on and cut into 2cm x 4cm chunks
  • 6 tablespoon olive oil or sunflower
  • 1 swede weighing about 675g/ 1 1⁄2 lb, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 50g butter plus extra for serving

Instructions

  1. The day before you want to serve, preheat the oven to fan oven 200C/conventional 220C/gas 7. Put the potatoes into a pan of lightly salted water, bring to the boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain the potatoes, put them back into the pan and place it back on the heat for a couple of minutes to dry out.
  2. Meanwhile, pour the oil into a large roasting tin (you may have to use two) and heat it in the oven until smoking hot. Now stir the potatoes into the hot oil and return to the oven to roast, turning occasionally, for 55 minutes.
  3. Cook the swede in boiling salted water for 50-55 minutes, or until very soft. Drain and add to the roasted potatoes. Roughly mash everything together, keeping quite chunky, then cool, cover and refrigerate.
  4. To serve, preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6. Uncover the potatoes and swede, dot with the butter and put in the oven to reheat for 25-30 minutes, stirring now and again until piping hot. Serve with lots of butter