How many things can you do with potatoes.

falady

Bacon and potato hotpot is very nice. Its cheap and filling and very tasty!

Rough recipe for 4 people.....

Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Grease a big dish (the type you'd use for lasagne or shepherds pie)

Peel and thinly slice (approx 5 mm thick) 4 - 6 big potatoes.
Snip 6 - 8 rashers of bacon into small pieces.
Chop 1 - 2 onions into small pieces.

Layer the ingredients in a dish - potatoes, onions, seasoning, bacon. Repeat the layers, finishing with a layer of potatoes.

Make some white sauce (recipe on this forum if you search) - approx 3/4 of a pint. Pour the white sauce over the layered potatoes etc.

Put in the oven and bake for 1.5 hours.

Enjoy!

Hope you like it and apologies for the approximate msurements. i've made it so many times, i can't remember the exact measurements!

juliapenguin

I read about this website on here the other day - thank you to whoever it was, I can't remember - and I made this potato, tomato, cheese and onion thing for my dinner the same day. It was absolutely delicious, very cheap and tasty. I made enough for two days and ate the lot in one go.

http://www.oldscrote.talktalk.net/potato.htm#po2

MsDee

Hi everyone,

I roast them, mash them, boil them - and my partner loves pots most nights with dinner.

Does anyone else do anything else with the humble spud that I could copy??

Thanks in advance

Dee
xx

Penelope_Penguin

MsDee wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I roast them, mash them, boil them - and my partner loves pots most nights with dinner.

........... baked, rosti, dauphinoise, chips and 302 other posts in this thread. I'll add this thread to that one later to keep ideas together.

C.Lightowler

cut them into wedges and add lemon pepper or some other kind of spice (maybe piri piri)

Savannah02K

We got this idea when we had stay at Champneys, they served the pots like this in their restaurant, if you're watching weight, really good and tasty way to still get some carbs. Microwave baking potato until almost cooked. Leave to cool bit then slice into thickish rounds. One Cal spray a baking tray, lay rounds on that, another quick blitz of One Cal on top of pots, top with salt, pepper, whatever spices you want (dried herbs, dried chilli etc) and put at top of hot oven (Gas 6) for about 10-15 mins until crispy. Lovely with a salad and hummus.

ubamother

I thought this was a bit of cheffy nonsense until I tried it! - boil potatoes whole or in big chunks, with skin on, until almost cooked. Drain and dry. Put in a roasting tin, squash down with a potato masher until flattened and burst looking (I don't know how else to describe it!) drizzle with a good amount of olive oil. add salt, freshly ground pepper. Cut a whole garlic bulb in half horizontally and put halves in pan. Cook in a hot oven until roasted looking and crispy (this can take a lot longer than you think). They are awesome, and a great recovery if you've over-parboiled potatoes that you were going to roast!

I'm a big rosti fan, and the Hairy Bikers do a great (if heavy on the calories) version.

Pommes Dauphinoise (sort of anyway). thinly slice potatoes, cook gently in only just enough stock to almost cover for about 6 minutes. Drain, reserving stock. Boil stock down until syrupy, add some double cream. layer potatoes with thinly sliced onion rings/halfmoons. slowly pour the stock/cream mix over. top with some strong hard cheese or a grating of nutmet and cook in a moderate oven until pots cooked through and top all bubbly. You can also add layers of sweet potato for a different flavour. I normally put thyme in as well.

katieso

I know its a bit out there (and can be time consuming if you've never made it before) but potatoes are what gnocchi is made from, and the only other added ingredients are flour, eggs and butter (I think butter anyway).

I don't make it very often but it is a yummy alternative to both potatoes and pasta when you get fed up with them!

ralloctiger

Found this recepe in La Rochetta ( ex pat mag ) menorca.
Coca de Patata
( fiesta bread )
250g cooked pureed pots
250g butter
200g sugar
4 lge eggs
700g strong flour
1 tsp salt
2 pkts dried yueast
icing sugar

boil unpeeled pots ( left over jacket work well) puree smooth
melt butter mix with sugar pots, 4 eggs mix untill smooth
sep bowl mix 6oog flour salt and yeast work flour mix into egg butter mixture.
keep working dough untill it sticks to itself and not yourhands. Add last 100 g flour as needed if eggs very large may need a little more. leave dough to prove in bowl. when doubled knock back and form into round shape wrapping it around itself so you get the coca shape with a high middle. I just made a sort of round loaf shape, place on baking trayleave torise again untill double it looks like its alive, bake in mod oven 180 for 1 hour. Should have a good crust on it crackswill develop when cool cover with icing sugar eat with hot chocolate but it makes a great breakfast and any time is always good.:T

Pretani

roast them in the fire, covered with tin foil....