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[AnnMumsnet]

Tonight on BBC 2 at 8pm the "Great British Food Revival" is talking about potatoes and with this in mind Potato Council would like to hear about your best tips for cooking with potatoes and recipes featuring potatoes and to then include them on their Mumsnet hub (coming soon). In case you didn't know: "Potato Council is part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board working on behalf of British potato growers and purchasers to promote potatoes. We are funded through a statutory levy on 3,000 potato growers and potato trade purchasers and we aim to support the British potato industry."

Potato Council say that potatoes are "low in calories, they're naturally fat-free, bursting with vitamins and minerals, contain absolutely no cholesterol and when served with their skins are a great source of fibre"

They are going to be having a special page on Mumsnet soon and would love to feature some of your own recipes and tips for cooking for the family (and yourself) using potatoes.

Please share them here - everyone who adds tip or recipe to this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky winner will win a £100 Sainsbury's voucher.

Many thanks and good luck

MNHQ

[chocoholic]

Am I allowed to add a tip about growing your own potatoes?

I did it last year for the first time and it was fantastic. So easy, my DS loved helping me and they tasted amazing.

We got a potato growing bag, added about 5 seed potatoes and then just kept adding compost and water - anyone can do it!

[bluecheesedip]

Twice Baked Potatoes - I make these for parties and they always vanish.

Bake Potato until cooked through.
Halve and scoop out flesh into a bowl.
Add grated cheese and sour cream (a good dollop of each per potato) and mustard (any kind, tsp per potato)
Put mixture back into potato skins and bake until warm through.

Or if that's too much of a faff, I sometimes throw baby new potatoes into a roasting tin with salt, rosemary and olive oil.....

[Asinine]

Roast potatoes with garlic
Peel and boil Maris pipers for around 10 mins, preheat oil in shallow baking tin with several garlic cloves, unpeeled. add drained potatoes, turn in the oil. season with salt and pepper. roast at 200 for one hour, turning once.

[bluecheesedip]

Oh and I forgot - my favourite potato salad - potatoes (any kind apart from new/baking) boiled egg, mayo and chives.

[LillianGish]

My kids' favourite. Par-boil potatoes and cut into chunks, fry some bacon and snip into strips, add some mushrooms and fry briefly in the bacon fat. Mix everything together in an oven proof dish, grate some cheese over the top and bake in the oven.

[jenniferturkington]

Greek lamb & potatoes

Slice about 5 large potatoes and line a casserole dish with them. Add a couple of cloves of garlic and a sliced onion. Drizzle with olive oil and season. Roast for about 20 mins.

Rub oregano, salt and pepper into lamb chops. Put them on top of the potatoes.

Pour over half a pint of chicken stock. Cover with foil and cook for further half an hour.

yum

[ArfurBrain]

cajun fried potatoes

1: Par-boil spuds.

2: make a salsa with a tin of tomatoes, onion, green pepper, coriander, jalepeno chilli, salt and pepper, pinch of sugar etc. Leave to settle at room temp.

3: coat potatoes with a mix of olive oil, cajun spices (or cayenne, paprika, salt, pepper, ground coriander) and either bake in oven for 20 mins or shallow fry.

4: Make a cheese sauce with 1 tblspn melted butter, a tblsn of plain flour, seasoning, 1/2 pint milk and grated cheese. Pour sauce onto cooked potatoes and serve with a generous dollop of salsa.
You could use a packet mix for this if you are feeling very lazy.

seve with fresh coriander.

This is a really satisfying supper dish.Can also be served with salad and crsuty bread. And bacon....ommmmm nom nom

[TragicallyHip]

Spicy Potato Wedges

Chop into wedges and par boil for 5 minutes or until tender.
Drain and put back into pan with lid to steam for 2 minutes (this will make them lovely and fluffy on the inside)
Pour over olive oil, add salt, pepper. Either fresh or dried thyme and marjoram. Plenty of paprika and cayenne pepper and toss.
Put in pre heated oven for around 20 minutes.

Serve with spicy mayo. Mayo, squeeze of lemon and paprika and cayenne.

[HannahHack]

I love homity pie

You do a wholemeal pastry crust for it, 200 g plain flour with 50g lard and 50g butter.

Fru up some onions and lot sof garlic, par boil some potaotes. Smask up potatoes and mix with onions and garlic and 50g chedder.
Put in pastry case and top with 100g chedder or stilton.

Cook for 40 mins on 180C.

Serve with baked beans!

[smokinaces]

Use small potatoes, cut into thin wedges with skins still in. Par boil, then chuck in a roasting tin with chicken, onions, celery and courgette. Spray with frylight, drizzle with honey and whack in some coarsegrain mustard. Roast in the oven for 35 minutes, tossing every now and then to turn the veg.

Yummy.

[Carrotsandcelery]

Duchess Potatoes

Peel the potatoes and boil them until soft. Drain and mash or (even better) put them through a potato ricer. Mix with salt and pepper, butter (and a little strong cheddar if you want to be really naughty).
Spoon the mash into a piping bag and pipe into meringue shaped blobs on a baking tray. Bake in a hot oven until the edges of the piped sections brown.
Serve.
Simple and my dcs love them!

[PigeonPie]

Cheesey Potato Bake (another one!)

Serves 4

Heat oven to 200c. Par boil 1kg of scrubbed potatoes, chopped into bite-size chunks for 5 - 10 minutes in a large pan. Take off heat and drain.

Heat a smaller pan with some oil or butter and when hot add 1 chopped onion. Once cooked add 200g of smoked bacon chopped small. Once cooked through add to the pan with the potatoes.

In a jug measure 125ml chicken stock (or white wine if you have it) and mix 150ml of cream or creme fraiche into it. Pour over the potato mixture. Grate 350g of gouda cheese and mix in most (save some for the top). Sprinkle paprika over, mix again and put it all in a shallow oven-proof dish adding the rest of the gouda to the top. Cover with foil and cook for 25 minutes, then remove the foil, sprinkle with a bit more paprika and put back in the oven for a further 20 minutes.

[WildAndCrazyHorlicksDrinker]

STOVIES!

I make veggie ones - so easy too!
Fry off a load of roughly chopped onions in oil or butter, with black pepper, until caramelising (slightly burned is fine). Chuck in a load of spuds, chopped into small chunks, and cover with water. Simmer slowly over a low heat until the tatties are falling apart and making a nice thick but sloppy consistency.

Serve with corned beef, pickle and oatcakes - ultimate comfort food!

[WildAndCrazyHorlicksDrinker]

Also, lazy mash - boil white tatties with skins on, add a vast quantity of butter (skip the milk) and mash roughly. Fab.

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

In honour of St Patrick's Day - champ! Mashed potato with cream, butter and scallions. Heaven!

[CoffeeGoneColdAgain]

52Girls I thought so too :o
I read it somewhere years ago, We never chuck the skins away now, as they are full of goodness, just maybe not with the dips haha!

[nickschick]

corned beef mash .

tin of corned beef cut into chunks - loads of buttered milky mash all mixed together then a generous topping of mature cheddar baked in the oven til golden and crispy - delish .

[stanausauruswrecks]

potato bread - much loved by Irish mammies everywhere (especially me!) 1lb potatoes,1oz butter
,1 level tsp salt,3.5oz plain flour.
Boil and mash potatoes, when still warm, add butter and salt. Stir in the flour a little at a time - (you may not need it all depending on the flouriness of the spud)
Roll out about 1/2cm thick and cut into triangles.Dry fry in a frying pan, until golden brown. Eat with a big feck off fry-up. Nom nom nom.

PS where's the shamrock smiley?

[Gracie123]

I second gnocchi - it's the best!

2 lbs potatoes
Salt to taste (lots if you're like me )
1 3/4 cups flour

Easy and delish! I stir them in some leftover bolognese, cover with cheese and bake.

Served with salad, garlic bread and a glass of red, there isn't a better meal!

[iPhoneDrone]

Dont scrub your spuds before you make Jacket pots, they taste so much better. Rub them with some olive oil and sea salt instead (yum)

[PrettyCandles]

I love potatoes, especially Marfona variety.

Best recipe? No such thing - all delicious!

Jackets, roasts, mashed, plain-boiled, latkes, knishes, dumplings, even sandwiches .

I have discovered the secret of good microwave potatoes: steam. Microwaved jacket pos rarely have the rich succulence of oven-baked jacket pos. But if you try to trap the steam in and slow down the cooking, they are much improved.

So pierce the potatoes and put them in a microwave steamer, with the lid on and all holes covered. Divide cooking time in two and have a resttime between cookings, eg 15mins cooking time becomes 7mins cooking, 10mijs or more resting, 8mins cooking. Increase cooking times if the rest time is longer than about 20mins.

[CMOTdibbler]

I love potato wedges, but my super quick tip is to bake a load of potatos, just off being completely cooked. Leave to cool, then cut in wedges. You can then chuck them in a hot oven with rapeseed oil (gets much hotter) to crisp for 15 minutes, or chuck the wedges in a plastic bag with a good drizzle of oil to coat, then freeze. They cook from frozen in 20 minutes in a hot oven.

Its a great way of using up pots that are starting to look a bit dubious - I buy a 25kg bag direct from the farm, so they are already super cheap but still...

[maxpower]

I do a potato, leek and bacon bake - dead easy as I can't cook to save my life!

Between 4-6 potatoes (depending on the size)
2 leeks
1 packet of bacon
packet of four cheese sauce
Milk
Some grated cheddar cheese

Peel and slice the potatoes. Slice the leeks. Par boil for 10 mins.

Meanwhile, grill the bacon and make up the cheese sauce with the milk according to the packet instructions.

Rip the bacon into decent sized bits and mix into the drained potatoes and leeks.

Transfer to an ovenproof dish and pour the cheese sauce over the top. Sprinkle the grated cheese over it. Put in pre-heated (gas mark 6) oven for about 30mins. Voila.

[TragicallyHip]

Great tip CMOTdibbler I shall be using that!

[bucksmum]

Plain and simple new potatoes cooked until just tender, and then a large knob of tarragon butter melted on the top - served with salmon - simple but delicious!