Recipes to freeze that use potatoes

[luna moth]

I still find it goes gross in soups. I'm pretty sur potato bake freezes really well though.

I do pea and potato curry with a tomato-ey sauce. I will make it probably next week and blog the recipe, if you can wait that long?

In the Bolivian high plains, freeze dried potato is a specialty. By freeze dried, they pretty much mean left out in the cold to rot, then stomped to squish out the juices. The product is called chunio, and they make an amazing chunio flour bread, which is kind of halfway between bread and biscuit. They also make an amazing soup called chairo. Delicious. Just so you know

[LimeSlice]

Potato and Leek soup - it is all pureed so won't go all weird lol

Potato bake usually freezes well, best to heat it in the oven from frozen.

Home made chips are good - you cut and par fry (or boil) them, freeze in a single layer on a tray then when they are frozen just pop them in a snap lock bag.

in fact most things if you heat them in the oven straight from frozen will turn out ok because you won't the effect of the cellular breakdown that occurs in vegetables when they are frozen and thawed.

HTH

[onthefly]

yeah, I would suggest potato & leek soup too. Potatoes are nasty when frozen and thawed, butmaybe if pureed you wno't notice...?

[meow]

I do pea and potato curry with a tomato-ey sauce. I will make it probably next week and blog the recipe, if you can wait that long?

I have enough potatoes they'll still be here next week- so yes, please PM your blog to me Thanks for the Bolivia tid-bits... I don't think I tried any fancy potato stuff in Bolivia. Damn.

Home made chips are good - you cut and par fry (or boil) them, freeze in a single layer on a tray then when they are frozen just pop them in a snap lock bag.

Really?? I'm so going to try this! Do I boil them chip shaped, or cut after boiling? And if I do that rather than frying should I just toss them on an oiled oven tray to cook later?

Thanks for the ideas. I have a leek so I'll make soup tomorrow and I'll try a couple of potato bakes too. Fingers crossed they aren't all icky!

[LimeSlice]

Yeah, just oil them in a bowl, not too much and whack them in a hot oven (about 200c-220c or so), single layer, bit off salt and paprika
Cut them first, then par boil, won't take long and easier to cut them when they are raw.
You can also cut them into wedges and do them the same way, leave the skin on and season with some paprika and oregano, salt and pepper after you par boil, pop in the bag and freeze.

Let them cool though before you freeze them.

[meow]

Thank you! I buy frozen chips for my fussy son who wont eat Mummy's home made organic potato chips!!!! Hoping this will win him over...

[LimeSlice]

Keep a commercial bag and refill it with your homemades He will never know the difference lol