Whether or not you want them baked, mashed, grilled, roasted, in potato salad or au gratin, potatoes are one of the vital versatile greens you may put in your plate.
They’re additionally nutritious, being a great supply for fiber, “which is necessary for digestive well being and may also help you are feeling full and is helpful for coronary heart and gastrointestinal well being,” mentioned Katie Funderburk, an extension specialist in vitamin with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. “One small potato with the pores and skin on gives about 10% of every day fiber wants.”
Potatoes are naturally fat-free, cholesterol-free, low in sodium and a very good supply of vitamin C, and people eaten with the pores and skin are a great supply of potassium, in accordance with Potatoes USA, which represents 2,500 potato growers and handlers throughout the nation.
White potatoes aren’t a lot completely different from candy potatoes within the vitamin they supply. “The massive distinction is that the candy potato is a wonderful supply of vitamin A,” Funderburk mentioned. “The orange coloring of the candy potato comes from the plant pigment beta carotene, a strong antioxidant that our our bodies flip into vitamin A. Beta carotene and different antioxidants present in fruit and veggies can lower your danger of coronary heart illness and sure cancers.”
Recipes despatched in by our readers showcase the number of methods you may get pleasure from your potatoes, from breakfast to dessert. For extra recipes, go to livewellalabama.com or potatogoodness.com/potato-recipes.
Potato Shock
Teresa Hubbard, an aide for particular wants college students at Russellville Middle School, received the concept for her “Potato Shock” recipe after seeing the same recipe in an AllRecipes journal. “That they had a recipe in there for loaded potatoes with bacon, onions, celery and leftover potatoes and cheese,” she mentioned. The combination was fried as patties, however she modified the recipe utilizing flour tortillas and including sausage, purple bell pepper, cumin and chilies.
Components
1¼ cups leftover mashed potatoes (that have been ready with salt, margarine and milk)
1 cup sizzling pork sausage, cooked and crumbled
½ cup purple bell pepper strips, chopped
1½ teaspoons floor cumin
¼ cup onion, chopped
3 tablespoons diced inexperienced chilies, drained
1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
1 giant egg
11 8-inch flour tortillas
Directions
Prepare dinner sausage and drain off grease. In a bowl, stir collectively mashed potatoes, sausage, pepper strips, cumin, onion, chilies and cheese. Stir effectively; beat in egg. Place ¼ cup of potato combination slightly below heart of tortillas; fold up backside edge, fold over left and proper sides and fold prime down. Rub water on tortillas to seal seams collectively. Fry tortillas in deep, sizzling oil at 375 levels for 1-2 minutes or till golden brown, turning as soon as. Drain on paper towels. Yields 11 servings.
Teresa Hubbard
Potato Chip Cookies
Components
2 cups butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3½ cups all-purpose flour
2 cups potato chips, crushed
½ cup pecans, chopped
Directions
Cream gentle butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour in small quantities. Fold crushed potato chips and chopped pecans into the batter. Scoop dough 2 inches aside on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 levels for about 10 minutes.
Lexie Turnipseed
Herbed Potatoes
Components
¾ cup butter
¼ cup celery, minced
1 teaspoon oregano
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
¼ teaspoon black pepper
2 medium onions, sliced
6 baking potatoes
Directions
Soften butter in a skillet, add celery after which sauté about 10 minutes. Stir in seasonings. Put aside. Chopping not fairly via, slit every potato into ½-inch slits. Place every potato on sliced onion on prime of a sheet of foil, giant sufficient to wrap a potato. Pour about 1/6 of butter combination on every potato. Deliver edges of foil collectively and seal securely. Bake it your most well-liked means. Potatoes are accomplished if gentle when flippantly squeezed. Cooking ideas: charcoal grill over medium coals, about 60 minutes; typical oven on a baking sheet at 350 levels, 60 minutes; in a gradual cooker potatoes could be stacked and baked 4 hours on excessive or 6 hours on low.
Karyl J. Stockinger
Potato Breakfast Bowls
Components
Per individual:
1 potato, cubed
2-3 small okra pods
½ small onion
1 mushroom, sliced
1 handful of spinach leaves
2 eggs
Salt, floor cayenne pepper, garlic powder and rosemary, to style
Olive oil
Directions
Pour sufficient olive oil to coat the underside of a skillet and activate medium warmth. Reduce potato into ½-inch cubes and add to skillet. Slice okra into ¼-inch items and add to skillet. Reduce slice of onion, then minimize into 8 items like a pizza and add to skillet. Slice mushroom into skinny slices and add to skillet. Add spinach leaves and canopy. Whereas veggies prepare dinner, whisk eggs with salt, powdered cayenne, garlic powder and rosemary. When spinach leaves are wilted and a fork simply pierces the potatoes, add the egg combination, stirring often till dry. Serve with complete grain toast.
Jennifer Fleming
Potato Stuffing
Components
1 medium onion, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
5 tablespoons butter
4 slices complete wheat bread, torn into items
3 cups cooked mashed potatoes
½ teaspoon dried sage
1 tablespoon dried parsley
Salt and pepper, to style
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 levels. In a big pan, sauté onion and celery in butter over medium warmth for five minutes. Take away from warmth and stir in bread, potatoes, sage, parsley, salt and pepper. Grease a medium-sized casserole dish and add stuffing combination. Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour or till prime is barely browned and crispy. Nice for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Additionally, an ideal facet dish with meatloaf.
Janice Bracewell
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Nothing beats some good previous mashed potatoes. Right here, we present you tips on how to jazz them up and make a dish that everybody will love. Warning: These fancy mashed potatoes could make people fall in love with you, too. That is the primary facet dish I ever mounted for my husband of now 26 years. So easy, but so scrumptious.
Components
2-3 kilos white potatoes, peeled, cubed and boiled
3 tablespoons butter
8 ounces cream cheese
8 ounces bitter cream
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
Dried parsley or inexperienced onions, for garnish
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 levels. Boil and drain potatoes. In a big bowl, mash potatoes till desired consistency is achieved. Add butter, cream cheese and bitter cream. Combine effectively.
Add salt, pepper and garlic powder, mixing effectively. Pour right into a greased 9-by-13-inch casserole dish. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Garnish with dried parsley or chopped inexperienced onions.
Brooke Burks, The Buttered Home
This story initially appeared in Alabama Living magazine.
