Potato Wedges? - All you ever wanted to know about how make potato wedges

Steve-o

Curry_Queen wrote: »

Do dried fruit and veggies retain the same vitamin content or are any lost in the drying process?

Yes, some nutrients are lost in the drying process. Vitamin C, for instance, is totally lost if a food is dried out. Not a problem if the rest of your diet makes up for it, and definitely better for you than fried crisps.

ragz_2

Hi, sorry for the stupid question (I really should know this, I can cook really well honest!)
I baked an extra potato yesterday so I could make the boys potato wedges to have with their lunch.
Do I bake or fry them? What do I do, apart from cutting them up, to make them into wedges?
Any help appreciated, thanks
Ragz

Rikki

I do mine in the oven. Cut into wedges place on a baking tray, drizzle with oil and black pepper. Some sprinkle on a little paprika.

You can cook potatoes from raw this way too. Home made oven chips.

horsechestnut

You usually make potato wedges by cutting a raw potato into four, lengthwise and brushing it with a little oil (and garlic if liked) and season with salt & pepper, and bake on the top shelf of the oven at Gas mark 5 for about 25 - 30 mins.
However, if you have a leftover potato then I would just cut it into four lengthwise and fry it in a little oil.

ragz_2

Hi thanks guys for your answers, as I was frying sausages I fried the potato too, came out really well (they're eating it!) and as I made too much I slung the remaining bits in the slow cooker with the casserole. I drizzled some of the gravy/sauce out of the casserole on their potatoes which seems to be going down well. But evilly I left the sausages in the kitchen so they try the veg first! (Nasty Mummy!)

Pink.

Hi ragz,

Glad they turned out well. I'll add your thread to the main thread on potato wedges as your query may help others.

Pink

millymollymandy2K7

I had a trip to Tesco about 9pm last night and bought - among other things - a bag of potatoes which had been reduced to 1p. I then arrived home to find out I already had quite a few potatoes. I have started to use some up by mashing and freezing them and have also made some soup for the freezer, but now wondered if anybody could tell me the best way to make potato wedges that I could freeze.
Any other potato ideas would be good aswell.

Lilith1980

Not sure if you could freeze this but it involves potatoes

Corned beef hash (serves 2)
I normally use 3 potatoes to feed me and DH.
Half to 3/4 of a 400g tin of corned beef, chopped into cubes
1 onion, sliced
2 eggs (optional)

Peel and chop the potatoes into bite sized pieces, part-boil them for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile fry the onion in a pan until soft.

When the potatoes are ready, drain them and put them into the frying pan with the onions, make sure the heat is high. Add more oil if necessary and stir them until they start to go golden.

Add the cubes of corned beef and keep stirring, the cornbeef will (hopefully!) soften and become mixed up with the potato and onion. This only takes a few minutes as you are just warming the corned beef through.

Serve with a fried egg on top, or I poach mine just to try and be a little healthier

Serve with loads of ketchup. Yum!

kezia

I am not sure if this freezes either but my kids love this as a filling tea at the weekend - or when the cupboards are getting empty! Very very similar to Lilith1980's yummy recipe.

I pop a large roasting tin in the oven to warm up. Peel and cube some potatoes and carrots. Boil for 5 minutes.

I cube some old bread - white/wholemeal/granary whatever I have and (almost dry) fry it off for a couple of minutes.

Put all of this in the tin in the oven.

Then I fry some diced bacon, onion, pepper and maybe some leek then add the carrots and potatoes. Add to tray in oven. Add some frozen peas and sweetcorn to the tray - mix and leave in oven until cooked through. Top with a fried or poached egg

Patchwork_Quilt

I've seen a recipe somewhere else on the OS thread for freezing potato wedges (but where?)

Basically, you make the potatoes into wedges, coat with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Cook on a non-stick tray until they are only just done, then stop and freeze them in bags.

Reheat as oven chips

Have you thought of gnocchi (can't spell, sorry)?