Your favourite way to serve potatoes

Morning Glory

Morning Glory

Obsessive cook
Staff member
Joined
19 Apr 2015
Local time
10:52 AM
Messages
46,942
Location
Maidstone, Kent, UK
How do you like your spuds? Do you prefer them mashed, chipped (fries), baked, roast, plain boiled, fondant, scalloped or perhaps as potato salad? They are one of the most versatile of vegetables. What is your favourite way of cooking and serving them?
 
Last edited:
Since they are almost always a side dish, I would answer that it depends on what it is accompanying.

For steaks and chops, I like a good salt rubbed baked Russet potato that is split and topped with herb sour cream.

For sandwices, burgers, or pita/gyro type things, it would be big, thick steak fries. I'm not a big fan of shoestring fries. A proper British chip or thicker is the way to go.

For roasts like chicken or leg o lamb, either baked wedge redskins with herbs (cooked in the fat of the roast), or "crash" potatoes with butter and seasoned salt.
 
It is very unusual that there is a day goes by in which don't I eat potatoes in one form or another. Even if I'm having rice there may be potatoes there also.

Not in any particular order:

Chipped (deep fried)
Roasted (with olive oil)
Slow roasted, with butter and paprika
Boiled (new potatoes)
Baked, plain with butter and parsley
Baked, stuffed with cheese and chillis etc.
Battered with fish (Yorkshire fish cakes)
Battered alone (Yorkshire scallops or pakoras)
Sauteed
Fondant
Mashed, with onion gravy
Mashed with minced beef (cottage pie) or minced lamb (shepherds pie)
Mashed then fried, with cabbage and carrot (bubble and squeak)
Curried, alone
Curried with eggs (dum)
Curried with eggs and yard long beans
Dry fried with caulflower
Fried with cauliflower (aloo ghobi)
Balti
Duchess, with egg
Grilled casseroled with beef (hot pot)
Baked, potato cake
Stewed, with beef and suet dumplings
Shredded with onion and deep fried (tater tots)
Crisps
Croquettes
Hassleback
Raita (or potato salad)
Hash browns

I really do like potatoes!

potatoes s.jpg
 
Yorky said:
It is very unusual that there is a day goes by in which don't I eat potatoes in one form or another. Even if I'm having rice there may be potatoes there also.

Not in any particular order:

Chipped (deep fried)
Roasted (with olive oil)
Slow roasted, with butter and paprika
Boiled (new potatoes)
Baked, plain with butter and parsley
Baked, stuffed with cheese and chillis etc.
Battered with fish (Yorkshire fish cakes)
Battered alone (Yorkshire scallops or pakoras)
Sauteed
Fondant
Mashed, with onion gravy
Mashed with minced beef (cottage pie) or minced lamb (shepherds pie)
Mashed then fried, with cabbage and carrot (bubble and squeak)
Curried, alone
Curried with eggs (dum)
Curried with eggs and yard long beans
Dry fried with caulflower
Fried with cauliflower (aloo ghobi)
Balti
Duchess, with egg
Grilled casseroled with beef (hot pot)
Baked, potato cake
Stewed, with beef and suet dumplings
Shredded with onion and deep fried (tater tots)
Crisps
Croquettes
Hassleback
Raita (or potato salad)
Hash browns

I really do like potatoes!

View attachment 15766
Click to expand...

A great list there! And all achieved with that only one type of potato you can get in Thailand. As a potato head, don't you ever crave a Jersey Royal?
 
morning glory said:
A great list there! And all achieved with that only one type of potato you can get in Thailand. As a potato head, don't you ever crave a Jersey Royal?
Click to expand...

After all these years, I probably would not be able to tell the difference.
 
I've had gigantic, loaded baked spuds as a meal before.

Oh, and I forgot creamy, cheesy scalloped potatoes (gratin dauphinois) to go with simply grilled meats.

And mashed Yukon Golds that are 60/40 potato to butter.
 
A knish (you pronounce the k, as in kuh-nish) is a great use for leftover mashed spuds.

They can have various ingredients such as onions, spinach, or meat in them, but I like the basic one, which is just a square or round of mashed that is covered in a thin layer of pastry and it's either deep fried or baked.
 
morning glory said:
Interesting point - does anyone here eat potatoes as the main dish? Aloo Gobi comes to mind...
Click to expand...

Egg and potato dum is a meal in itself, perhaps with a roti or naan. Also, vegetable masala which is effectively a potato, cauliflower and pea curry.

masala.jpg


I have eaten bubble and squeak (rumbledethumps) alone as a full dish but I usually add sausages or some cold meat and/or eggs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom