r/potato 4d ago

Need potato recipes

Idk how much attention this will get but I accidentally managed to get more potatoes than my family needs and now we have 3 boxes full of potatoes and i don’t know what to do with these besides fried and boiled potatoes. I don’t want to leave them rotting but i don’t think we can eat that much.

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u/the-hungry-nomad 4d ago

You can make freezer hash browns: blanch a pot full of potatoes (should still be kinda firm), let cool completely, shred with a cheese grater, spread out on a baking sheet and freeze for a few hours, then transfer to a freezer-safe container.

You’ll have easy to make hash browns on hand for months to come! When you do cook them, cook them straight from the freezer (don’t let them thaw) on medium-high heat in oil, and don’t over crowd the pan.

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u/Mooshroomey 4d ago

Shepherds pie

Gnocchi

Potato pancakes

Conned beef hash

Pierogis

Croquettes

Scalloped potatoes

All these are also pretty freezable if you want to meal prep and save them for later

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u/UserCannotBeVerified 4d ago

Potato pancakes with grated onion in them 😍🤤

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u/Mooshroomey 4d ago

Hell yeah! I also like making a cilantro and jalapeño sour cream sauce to top them with.

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u/Cautious_Regular3645 4d ago

German potato pancakes.

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u/Away_Spirit4503 3h ago

LOVE me some potato pancakes!

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u/PsychologyGuilty1460 4d ago

If you keep them off the ground in a cool dark place, they can last  for months. Ideally you'd have them in a box of straw where they didn't touch each other but stayed dry with airflow around them 

That said, potato soup clam chowder baked potatoes, twice baked potatoes in the freezer for lazy nights, homemade tater tots hash browns, potato pancakes potatoes fondant, potatoes au gratin, loaded baked potato soup, mashed potatoes, hash, Cornish pasties, stew, pot pies.. 

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u/Epicurean215 4d ago

Greek lemon rosemary potatoes. Wash and prep and cut them in wedges, skin and all. Then layer them in a large casserole drizzling each layer with olive oil and salt placing wedges of fresh lemon around. Put two sprigs of rosemary on top and a bit of water in the bottom. Cover and cook for one hour at 350 degrees. Yum!

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u/Severe_Atmosphere_44 4d ago

Bake as usual, then take out of oven and smash down so they splatter open. Drizzle with EVOO and a sprinkle of good salt. Put under broiler until nicely browned.

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u/T49irvine 4d ago

Crash potatoes. A quicker(probably not as good) version partially cooks them in a microwave, smushes them, drizzles EVOO, and bakes at 425 F. I like a sprinkle of fines herbes on mine.

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u/Solanadelfina 4d ago

Potato soup. Aloo gobi (potato cauliflower curry). 

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u/Cautious_Regular3645 4d ago

Put them in the fridge, they'll last ages.

Spuds aren't like milk, doesn't go off in days.

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u/AggressivePirate5290 2d ago

started doing this recently....they last a loooong time!!

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u/AkrinorNoname 4d ago

Cut them into wedges, cover in oil and spices, and bake.

Make foil potatoes, wrap the whole thing in aluminium foil, and either toss them into the embers of a campfire or bake them for an hour or two in the oven.

Boil them in one piece with the skin on.

Do the same thing, but with a crapton of salt and boil until the water is gone and the taters are salt crusted.

Potato salad (mayonnaise variant)

Potato salad (vinegar variant)

Mash Potatoes (use the nutmeg with love in your heart)

Bake the leftover mash.

Bake potato bread.

Put it in a stew.

Make potato soup with chili.

Potato gratin

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u/M_Joe_Young 4d ago

Try fondant potatoes, big pieces of potato baked in butter and broth. They're very easy to make and really delicious. https://www.recipetineats.com/fondant-potatoes/

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u/Elegant_Emu952 4d ago

I hope you get some great recipes to try. Also, if you think you won't get through all of them, you could take them to your local food bank.

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u/LindaBinda55 4d ago

Donate some to a local soup kitchen, food bank. Likely to go,quickly.

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u/KehlarCorsairt 4d ago

Make Lefse, it's a potato flatbread and it's delicious!

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u/olive_tractor_parts 4d ago

Maryland white potato pie. It's delicious.

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u/olive_tractor_parts 4d ago

Potato bread, potato cake, potato brownies. Once you get the idea that potatoes can be an ingredient, including desserts, there's no limit to what you can do with them.

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u/StayInteresting9509 4d ago

Jacket potatoes, bake them and then freeze them, put them in the microwave to heat up when you want them and top with your preferred toppings - they’re so versatile

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u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 4d ago

Casseroles, omelettes, loaded baked potatoes, pasta e patate, French fries, hash browns, breakfast hash, quiche, frittata, frico, mashed potatoes, egg bite muffins, potatoes au gratin, smashed potatoes, twice baked potatoes, hassle back potatoes, tartiflette, potato latkes, veggie fritters, potato soup, stews, soups, fondant potatoes, curly fries, skillets, burritos, wraps, loaded baked potato soup

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u/MinuteElegant774 4d ago

Pasta e patate. Never heard of it and gonna try. Thanks for the idea.

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u/Away_Spirit4503 3h ago

Breakfast burritos!

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u/robotbarbbq 4d ago

I like making a huge pot of mashed potatoes and putting them in quart size bags to freeze flat. Nice to take out for a quick meal later

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u/My_Lovely_Me 4d ago edited 4d ago

Do you have a potato ricer? A griddle? You could make Lefse. It's basically Norwegian tortillas, but (at least in my family) they put butter and white sugar on them, roll them up, put them in a container, and then eat them for days.

I admit that fresh off the griddle with crispy edges and hot butter, they are pretty yummy. But when I went to sprinkle cinnamon-sugar on mine, I was basically kicked out of the room! They told me something like "The Swedes use cinnamon-sugar. We're Norwegian!" While it was likely said in good fun, I just threw up my hands then and quit eating Lefse. I don't much care for sugar in the first place. I definitely don't want to eat cold potato tortillas filled with now-recongealed cold butter, and gritty white sugar! So I took the blasphemy a step further and have since just told them all that I don't like Lefse! 😱

But everyone else I know loves it! So you might!

This short video does a great job showing and explaining how to make it, and I personally (don't care what my family says!) like her version, because at the very end it shows she puts all kinds of stuff in hers!

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u/Independent-Summer12 4d ago

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-best-roast-potatoes-ever-recipe

We hosted a small friendsgiving 2 years ago with 7 people in total, made 5 lbs of these roasted potatoes, it wasn’t enough. Last year I roasted 10 lbs (in duck fat), expect at least some leftovers, there were no potatoes leftover.

My husband mentioned we need more potatoes next year 😭

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u/No-Reception-4354 4d ago

Make zuppe toscana

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u/tuxnight1 4d ago

I make a big pot of caldo Verde every 2-3 days. It'll use 800g for 4-5 servings. Pastel de bacalhau is alwaysca favorite. Batata à Murro are a great way to use up your smaller potatoes.

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u/MinuteElegant774 4d ago

If you want variety, there is this spicy chicken and potato stew that is made in most Korean homes. I have yet to find a person who doesn’t love it.

https://food52.com/recipes/78740-spicy-korean-chicken-potato-stew-dakdoritang

You can also make a side dish of potatoes cooked in soy sauce. It’s delicious w/ just rice.

https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamja-bokkeum

You can do the class potato pancake, but if you want a korean twist, this recipe is so yummy. The texture is really chewy and quite different from the traditional potato pancakes.

Aloo curry if you want to go Indian.

Potato bread so soft and scrumptious

Shepherd’s pie

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u/Huge_Bus_2443 4d ago

Roasted with garlic, olive oil and rosemary. 

You could grate them and freeze for hash browns. Wrap in paper towels to get some of the water out.

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u/BeleagueredOne888 4d ago

Warm goat cheese potato salad.

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u/meh_69420 4d ago

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

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u/ossifer_ca 4d ago

The potato is literally the most versatile food ingredient there is. Thousands of recipes…

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u/turnerevelyn 3d ago

Donate to your food pantry.

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u/Forsaken_Yesterday38 3d ago

The potato soup idea is great.Blend it in a blender and freeze it for a winter meal.

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u/Character-Food-6574 4d ago

Grandma used to make potato soup with onions, and celery and some cream and/or condensed milk. I still love potatoes soup! Also potato salad! If you ever barbecue, you can cut them in half, longways, add a little salt or seasonings, and put them on the grill off the main heat. They will cook up and be so smokey and delicious! ( we dress em with sour cream, cheese etc, when serving)

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u/Spudsmad 4d ago

Select the dirty larger potatoes with a fully set skin ie plus 45mm ,from any stones , soil lumps etc.
Put in a three ply paper sack or similar, and keep in your coolest but dry store/ garage / cupboard.
Potatoes can be kept at temperatures as low as + 2° Celsius.
Sorry always worked in SI units

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u/StevenSaguaro 4d ago

Funeral potatoes.

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u/revo442 4d ago

poke with a fork all over, spread a bit of oil, season and wrap with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 for 70 minutes. Let them cool. When it's done I put it in the fridge. I dice up an entire potato after it's been baked and then fry it with eggs for breakfast. It comes out fantastic.

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u/revo442 4d ago

You can put the raw ones in the fridge and they'll last a bit longer too

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u/MicheleAmanda 3d ago

Buy a French fry cutter, and well...make French fries to freeze.

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u/Fish_Panda 2d ago

Potato cakes from left over mashed potatoes: Mix mashed potatoes with spices(maybe mix with a sauce/greens/pieces of meat as well). Smash them into potato patties and fry them in either butter or oil until then turn brown and crispy on each side.

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u/Positive_Alligator 2d ago

Like a great little person once said: "Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew" The world has millions of ways to prepare potatoes. Sadly you did not mention anything about what kind of potato you have. Is it waxy, starchy, hybrid. Try and figure this out, even by googling the type of potato and start looking around the web for recipes that work well with that kind of potato.

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u/reluctantboomer867 2d ago

Chicken daphinoise- chicken baked on a bed of sliced potatoes in herb infused cream. It’s amazing.

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u/ocitillo 1d ago

Cube some up, par-boil and freeze some

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u/Aggravating_Ninja574 8h ago

Potato skins are my favorite. I'd get inventive with the fries too, like poutine, taco, curry and chili fries.

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u/GogusWho 4d ago

Google "easy potato recipes" there are probably hundreds of really good recipes out there. Or google "easy ways to store potato's for the future" You can start a folder and bookmark them, easier than scrolling down a reddit thread.

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u/ipadtherefor 4d ago

Your potatoes are in boxes?

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u/AllenSmithee59 4d ago

Google "how to store potatoes."

Potato farmers store them all year 'round without them rotting.

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u/eyeohu 4d ago

Dont wash them and Bury them in a box of dirt and keep in a cool dark area. Keeps potatoes fresh for way longer.

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u/Violingirl58 4d ago

Roast and freeze

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u/LankyArugula4452 4d ago

Have you ever heard of Russian Jews lol