Recipes with potatoes

Cooking with potatoes

Potatoes bulk out curries, stews and tray bakes, and they are the main event in soups, salads and fish cakes. Most of these recipes use ordinary potatoes, not special varieties. South African dishes lean on them too: they go into Cape Malay curry, tomato bredie, potjiekos and samoosas.

This page has 28 recipes with potatoes: 24 dinners and 4 lunches. 4 are ready in 30 minutes or less, and the quickest is Creamy Tomato Gnocchi at 25 minutes. In these recipes, potatoes most often go with onion, garlic and tomatoes.

Tips for potatoes

• Keep potatoes in a cool, dark, dry place, away from light so they don’t turn green.
• Cut away any green patches and sprouts before cooking.
• Use floury potatoes for mash and soup, and firmer waxy ones for potato salad and tray bakes, where you want pieces that keep their shape.
• Leftover boiled potatoes make fish cakes, potato salad and samoosa filling.
• Cut potatoes into even pieces so they cook at the same rate.
• Start potatoes for boiling in cold salted water so the outside doesn’t fall apart before the centre is cooked.