Doesn't necessarily have to be vegan/vegetarian, but I don't eat enough produce and my potatoes generally go bad when I don't eat them with nearly every meal.
I'm a decent cook but anything with pastry/baking elements is not preferred.
Thanks conroys.
Slice potato thinly
Place on baking pan
Sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper, etc.
Bake.
Baked potato soup
Curries are fav (saag aloo, also aloo gobi)
Pierogi, but that's more effort
Latke
Baked potato is easy and good, but takes while. Bake at 450 for like an hour. Alternatively you can microwave for 10 minutes, make sure to flip it after 5. Cut it open and insert butter or cheese. Goes great with protein such as eggs, chicken, soy, etc, or even just on its own.
Potato is a key ingredient in curry. Buy some curry flavoring. Sautee the vegetables (cauliflower, potat, onion, tomat) then add water and curry flavor. Simmer until its good.
No I will not give measurements.
Never tried to cook curries and totally forget about it. Good suggestion.
Baked potatoes don't have to take that long. You can poke holes in them and microwave them for a few minutes (length of time depending on size of potato, do them 1-2 at a time, don't do like a big plate of them) and that will cook them from the inside out. Once they're soft you can finish them in the oven to get that delicious potato skin all crisped up. Bonus points if you roll them in olive oil and herbs and wrap them in foil. The skin will take on a "fried" texture on the bottom. Delicious.
An easy as fuck and very tasty way is potatoes grenailles (pommes de terre grenailles), it's a french recipe. You're gonna need only potatoes that are small, less than ~4 cm in length. Wash them, do not peel them. Put quite a bit of olive oil into a pan (enough so that the entire surface has some on it), and just straight up put the potatoes in there. Cook at low heat for about 40 minutes, move them regularly. When the time is up, cut the heat, add salt and pepper, put a few garlic gloves diced finely in the pan, mix it all well, wait for 2 or 3 minutes for the garlic to brown slightly with the residual heat. It's ready. Looks like this.
big fan of potato burritos but I can only eat so many before I get tired of them.
cooking a stew right now which made me think of what else I can handle
Oven fries are a great side dish. Prepping the potatoes are kinda the only part that requires effort.
Preheat oven/toaster oven to 425 F / 219 C. Clean potatoes, cut off any weird spots (peel if you're inclined). Cut them into something that looks like french fries, or slabs that are the same thickness as french fries if you're in a hurry. Potatoes go into Baking container (sheet or pyrex casserole dish). Put a few tables spoons of oil over the top and shuffle them around. Add some seasoning if you want. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, use a spatula to unstick any potatoes from the bottom/sides and make a half assed effort to mix them around. Then back in the oven for another 15~20 minutes. Some of them should be kinda crispy and a fork should easily impale the thickest bits of potato.
Breakfast stuff easier than hash browns. Dice potatoes into something like 1/4" cubes, oil the pan on medium/high heat, once the oil pops drops the potatoes on. 10 to 15 minutes later they should be done.
Anything you don't eat can be frozen after they cool down to about room temperature and will store for months/years until freezer burn makes them taste funny. Otherwise, add eggs, mushrooms, onions, etc and cook as a scramble or something.This is basically exactly how I do my oven fries and agreed, it's delicious. I add a little paprika for color when mixing with the oil.
Scalloped potatoes in a casserole dish (or any oven proof dish)
Layer 1-2 thinly sliced potatoes with shredded cheddar cheese, finely chopped broccoli (1 head) and brown onion (1/2), and a roux of melted butter, flour, salt, pepper, milk. 1/2tsp of salt per large potato and a pinch more per broccoli.
Bake at 400ish for like 30 minutes covered and another ~45 uncovered. It's done when a fork can poke it easily and it's tender. Eat with baked chicken and sauerkraut or whatever protein you have on hand I guess
Hash browns. Shred the potato and put them in a bowl of cold water to get some of the starch out. Then press the mass of potato between two clean kitchen towels to get all the excess moisture out. Heat your pan with an oil that has a high smoke point - I recommend Canola - and fry them puppies up. You can either put the whole amount in the pan or press them into fritters - whatever floats your boat.
The one key is not to turn them over too soon. It'll take some practice but it sounds like you've got plenty of potatoes to work with. If you like hot sauce, drizzling hot sauce on a crisped up pad of hash browns is just... :AyyyyyOC:
Do you have to cook the potato at all first or just shred it from raw?
Shred it raw. If you have baked or mashed potatoes a similar thing you can do is you can mix in an egg yolk and a splash of cream (milk works too, but I recommend cream) and press them into patties and fry them up. I like mixing in chives when I do that. The yolk acts as a binding agent, I am sure there is a vegan alternative that would work but I don't know what it is, I'm not a vegan.
I wish you the best of luck! Don't be upset if it doesn't cook perfectly the first time. Oh, and if you need to, don't be afraid of adding more oil after you flip them. I should have mentioned that in the original post. I have to add extra oil almost every time I make hash browns because a lot of it gets absorbed, so it makes no sense to me to add a lot at the beginning. I'm just trying fry the outside, not bleed a bunch of oil into the center.
Easiest way is to chop it up with some onion and maybe some bell peppers. Salt, pepper, butter, maybe some lemon pepper and roast that shit for an hour or 2
