How many things can you do with potatoes.

Zara77

Hi Everyone
Im searching for ideas to use up a small mountain of potatoes! I bought them them as whoopsies for 21p! The man at the store was going to move from the shelf to be binned because it was after 12am but i managed to get the last lot. Only because worker went off to help another customer-anyway i have 6bags of 2.5kg potatoes. Better i have them then the bin! Already thought of to use up- Jacket potatoes,mash and that it. Not really a great cook but can follow basic instructions. All ideas welcome:rolleyes:

GonzoAston

I usually buy a lot of tats as so many uses for them.

Make some potaoe salad

I like to slice them (skin on, length ways) into about 1-1 & 1/2 cm slices. Add a little oil to a roasting tin. Lay them out and season them. Once golden on top side turn them over and season again. I normally add different things tiny bit of chilli powder etc.

You could always make dauphinoirs(sp). Basically in a deep roasting dish. Peel tats and cut length ways again. Layer them up in the dish with 1 layers tats, then some garlic or whatever you want really. keep layering them up adding garlic (or whatever you want) until the ammount is what you need. Then I use a mixture of cream and milk and pour over until covered. The shove them in the oven until cooked.

Potatoe curry? (Pataks)

Wedges

Home Made chips

Kookoo (Iranian)
Basically these are potatoe cakes. Boil potatoes until just nearly cooked. Mash them up (as normal with butter and milk) and add a bit of turmerick and flour and one egg or two. Once you have a bit of sticky but doughy texture, heat up some oil in a frying pan and add a bit in at a time (with a spoon and flatten them a bit). Then turn over once getting browned. They eat these in Iran cold, but I have them warm too. You can also fry some onions until browned and add them inn, or garlic etc.

Just a few ideas, sure people will have more.

Happy cooking

blueberrypie

You can bake them in foil and then freeze them - when you want to eat them, let them defrost in the foil, then remove the foil and heat them through in the oven. They don't taste *quite* the same as freshly-baked, but they're not far off, and it can be handy having some baked potatoes in the freezer if you've very little time for preparing a meal.

You can also make potato wedges - serve up like chips, but healthier. Just cut the potatoes into wedges (peel them or don't, your choice - I like the skin left on) and toss in a large bowl with a little bit of oil in the bottom. You can add something to the oil if you want - a bit of chili powder, some herbs, whatever you have handy. A bit of soy sauce helps them colour. Then put them in a roasting tray in the oven - easy side-dish.

You could also make scalloped potatoes, or fry slices, or make hash browns....lots of things to do with tatties :-)

Pink.

Hi zara,

This thread should give you lots of ideas:

How many things can you do with potatoes.

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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Butterfly_Brain

Try making some tuna fishcakes and freezing them or as others have said make wedges , coat in a little oil and freeze them too, mash freezes well or you could make potato scones, potato fritters or croquettes which again all freeze well and make a nice change from chips

msb5262

Don't forget, potatoes are great for soup.
Basic potato soup - chop onion and potatoes, sweat in olive oil for 5 mins, add water or stock, season, simmer until potatoes are tender. Blend, check seasoning, serve with chopped chives or parsley.
Spinach soup (excellent when you get whoopsied bags of spinach, or frozen is fine) - as above but add a clove of chopped garlic at the beginning, then add spinach at the END and cook just for 2 minutes before whizzing until smooth. Delicious with a splosh of natural yoghurt and a few croutons.
Leek and potato soup - method as basic (above) but to each large potato or equivalent, add one large leek and a stick of celery. When blended, add a little cream or milk if you like.
Tomato and potato soup - sounds vile but is divine. Very loosely based on a recipe by Elizabeth David. Replace onion in basic recipe with finely chopped white of leek. Add 2 skinned chopped tomatoes to every large potato. When cooked and blended, add cream to taste; I know it sounds so wrong but it is so right, and it's a beautiful pale orange colour.
Serve these soups with bread, toast or home-made croutons, and remember it's a great way to get everyone to eat vegetables!
MsB
PS Forgot to say, all these soups can be frozen. If you're very short of freezer space, you can make them with the absolute minimum of water/stock (ie just enough to cover the vegetables), then add extra liquid when you reheat.

Zara77

Thank you every for the great ideas. I have a feeling i will be spending a fair bit of time in the kitchen over the next few days! I just couldn't believe that MrT was just gonna chuck them away because it was after 12am.

Chipps

Just a thought - have you taken them out of the plastic bags? Because they will last for ages if you put them in a cardboard box or a paper sack & keep them dark, but will go sweaty & yucky if you leave them in plastic.

V.Lucky

In addition to what Chipps says, if you put them in the fridge they will keep for around a month, but take them out of the plastic bag or at least open it up.

However with the amount you have bought, you might need a very very large fridge!

Pink.

If you keep them anywhere cool and dark (out of the plastic, so they don't 'sweat') they will last for quite a while. I keep them in the garage in a cardboard box. This thread might help:

Help! How do I store potatoes?

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