Help me use up so many potatoes!

[TheLadyIsAVamp]

I have inherited 2 huge bags of potatoes. I am already planning to make cheese and potato pie, good ol' tattie soup like my granny made and an American style loaded baked potato soup. If you had an abundance of potatoes to use up what would you make?

Just a few ideas

Mash separated in to portions for the freezer
Fritatta or Spanish omelette
Air fryer potato chips
Croquettes
Bombay potatoes
Gnocci
Rosti

@Regularmumandfriend don't know how I didn't think of Bombay potato! My favourite 😋. I've always been scared of trying a rosti do you have a foolproof method? I have made potato scones a few times and they've been a disaster so I shy away from fried methods but I think I may give croquettes a go as I love them!

Never got round to home making these myself yet, but hash browns or dauphinoise!

Parboil and put into freezer bag for roast potatoes

Wedges
chips
dauphinoise
bubble & squeak
Parmentier potatoes
Jacket pots
roast pots

Ooh! Eons ago back in high school Food Tech, I also made an Irish chocolate cake that had wait for it... potatoes as an ingredient!

I thought it sounded ridiculous at the time, but it was the most moist cake I've ever eaten to this day.

Cant find the exact recipe I used from back then, but going off my memory this one sounds about right - though I think I might've done mine with an ganache or icing because I'm a terrible chocoholic 😅😅

www.imperfectlyhappy.com/vintage-chocolate-potato-cake-recipe/

I don't have a fool proof rosti I am afraid.
But if you like Indian food Malai Kofta is another good one (quite rich).
Also have you seen the tic tocks of quiche using boiled spuds as the crust? Put boiled spuds on a quiche dish (skin on) then squash spuds with a glass till you have a coating that covers the base and sides of your dish then fill with your egg mix and bake.

These are great and v easy.

https://www.coop.co.uk/recipes/crispy-paper-potatoes

Loaded skins
potato salad
jacket potatoes
chips
mash
colcannon
leek and potato soup
spanish omelette
dauphinoise

Samosa/Spring roll filling.
Cubed potatoes, peas, salt, pepper, cumin seeds, red chilli flakes.
Everything in a pot, enough water to “nearly” cover the potatoes. Boil on high heat til theres a little bit of water left. Put the lid on and let it finish cooking with the steam.
Make the spring rolls and freeze. You can put anything you want inside.

Potato curry with chickpeas and spinach
Potato gratin
Bangers and mash
Colcannon

Mash potato and then freeze

Also worth looking at wartime recipes for these cakes made with potato
theres wartime biscuits too

The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society

If you’ve watched the film now you can make the pie

Boxty - Irish grated potato cakes.

Good Food does a step by step for 'freeze ahead roasties'
I have done this.

Potatoto cakes

almost any type of potato dish will freeze - duchesse, wedges, mash, whatever. Dauphinoise would be a good one to make and freeze because its a pain to make and so nice to have when you need comfort food!

cheese and potato pasties - make them and freeze without baking then just defrost and stick in the oven. I do a similar thing with potato and paneer in a curry sauce.

if you have a dehydrator you can also dehydrate potato slices and then use those to make dauphinoise or boulangerie potatoes later without using freezer space - there used to be (80's I think) a packet mix that was basically this - potatoes, milk powder, garlic powder, dried onion - you mixed it with water (or milk?) and baked it and it was amazing - way before I knew about dauphinoise but that's basically what it is.

I also experimented with bottling potatoes once - again to save on freezer space - kind of worked - you end up with something that tastes a lot like tinned potatoes so probably not what you'd want to live on but handy for a quick reheat.

I'd use a glut to get ahead for future cooking and stick things in the freezer.

Potatoes Dauphinoise useful to have in the freezer for any dinner party or just generally.

You can also make roast potatoes and freeze them and get ahead for Christmas!🤣. They are almost better than unfrozen RPs.

Mash you can freeze in an ovendish and just heat up with butter on the top.

As long as you parboil the Spuds you could make frozen chips.

Also fishcakes.

Don’t stress yourself out. Put them into a cardboard box and leave in the shed. Just pull out what you need when you need.

We bought potatoes by the sack from dads mate who grew them when I was growing up. They were fine.

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