Freezing potatoes

wyebird

Can you make your own frozen roast potatoes? Have big bad of spuds I need to use and frozen roasties are handy sometimes.

thanks

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Hi wyebird,

Yes you can. I do this all the time.......just make sure that they're slightly undercooked and reheat in a hot oven from frozen.

We have an older thread on this so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the replies together

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Bambywamby

I have frozen roasties before and they recrisp up really nicely.

youngmum_2

Do I remember reading on here one time that if you part bake a Jacket Potato you can then freeze it?

If so, how would you go about reheating it? Would you just defrost thoroughly and then heat thru in the oven?

Thanks in advance

amyandoli

Hello,

I posted a while ago that I freeze my jkt pots.

I buy/dig up from veg patch a big bag of pots and process them in a day.

Big ones are shallow sliced and pricked, fully baked, then cooled and frozen as jkt pots. To cook either (defrosted or not-I never defrost) bake on 200c till hot, or microwave on high 6 mins.

Some small ones are boiled, pricked, cooled and frozen. Defrosted and cooked as boiled pots, or roasted with/without skins, or skewered with meat/veg and marinaded, or mashed etc.

Mid sized ones are chipped and wedged, par boiled and frozen. Use as shop bought frozen chips. With or without skins.

I also freeze leftover roast pots, when I have enough together I cook them. The oil freezes yellow, dont worry though it's fine.

I have tried unsuccessfully to freeze sliced pots for dauphinose, as they seem to go limp and break up when defrosting. Any tips?


Amy

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Hi youngmum,

We have a recent thread on reheating frozen jacket potatoes that should help so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

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dreams_R_free

There's probably lots of advice hidden away somewhere in all the fascinating posts on here but I thought I'd just ask as I haven't much time in the next few days to read through. But I will one day!

We love potatoes in any shape or form and I was so chuffed when my neighbour,who moved house yesterday to the other end of the country, gave me a huge sack of potatoes with about 95% unused as they didn't want to take them with them. They aren't DFW like us! The potatoes are Marfona variety by the way, great for mashing.

There's only me and DH and although we love spuds there's no way we can eat even a fraction of these before they sprout and go wizened. I thought I'd do something with them to freeze. I've frozen mash before now but does anyone have any tips for something else to do with them for freezing? I thought of parboiling some so I can roast them in the future but is it best to part roast them before freezing?

All suggestions very gratefully received. Thanks in advance:T

lynzpower

they will last a long time as long as you store them correctly.

I recommend keeping them in a sack and put them in a dark place. under the stairs cupbaord for example. Indeed, they are supposed to last till the new season ie when new potatoes come out.

Do ensure by searching through if theres any soft or green ones, bin those, you dont want to infect the rest of them

In terms of freezing, im not convinced, Ie never really had a big enough freezer to bother, but I have been known to turn them into leek & potao soup, or potatoe & chick pea curries, for batches for the freezer, quick meals for later. Ive also made potato cakes, using mash mixed with loads of flour & seasoned, shaped into balls, and put in a tupperware, then defrosted, flattened out and fried in a pan lovely with cooked breakfast or just baked beans on thier own *droooool*

snoopy_and_woodstock

Hi Impomdasp

I'm always freezing potatoes (as i always get carried away with chopping and before i know it i have enough to feed the 5000) the best thing ive found is to par boil the potatoes first then freeze and you can roast them straight from the freezer, you could make normal roast pots or wedges (sprinkle these with seasoning before you cook them).

And you can chip them par boil them and then freeze them these work well too.

Good luck with all those potatoes.

Snoopy x

rizla01

If you have surplus DO NOT BIN THEM!

Plant them! They will give you a new crop of lovely fresh potatoes when ready.

I think niow is a good time or late September but someone on here will correct me, if I'm wrong.