{"id":18773,"date":"2013-07-04T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alwaysfoodie.com\/?p=18773"},"modified":"2013-07-04T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:34:12","slug":"make-potatoes-less-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/make-potatoes-less-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Potatoes Less Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may be people in this world that think otherwise, but potatoes are possibly the most boring food ever. I loathe eating them unaltered in any way: mashed, boiled, roasted\u2026 what else can you do with a potato? Oh, wait, I don\u2019t care. Or at least I didn\u2019t <\/i>until I decided to try and add them in to recipes rather than just serving them next to one.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t really a recipe, as such, but more an eye opener for people like me who are hell bored of potatoes.<\/p>\n

Boil em\u2019 crush em\u2019 stick em\u2019 in a pan<\/b><\/p>\n

This picture is the result of my experiment. I was cooking lamb chops with asparagus, but needed some carbs to bulk out the meal a little. I\u2019d also run out of mint sauce, which in my house can cause mayhem, so I needed a quick way to fix both of those problems.<\/p>\n

My solution<\/b><\/p>\n

I boiled the potatoes just before starting to fry the lamb on a medium heat, turning every minute or so to keep in the heat and juices. When the potatoes where done (not too soft), I crushed them in the colander with a fork and added them into the pan around the lamb, with a little more butter to stop them burning and drying out.<\/p>\n

The next bit involves routing through your fridge and seeing what you have. I had some garlic and chilli lying around, so I chopped them up and sprinkled them over the lamb and potatoes.<\/p>\n

The next step involved some random act of God, in which there was some fresh mint in my fridge (I don\u2019t know how I didn\u2019t see that earlier). I used the flat of my knife to soften the mint leaves with a dessertspoon of red wine vinegar, then placed it over the lamb and potatoes, left in the pan for another minute, then served with the asparagus.<\/p>\n

The result was really impressive, that bland stodginess you can expect from potatoes has gone and they positively contributed to a thoroughly tasty meal.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it needs to be garlic and chilli to make this potato saver work. It\u2019s worth looking at what you have and experimenting a few times until you find something that really works with the meal you\u2019re trying to create.<\/p>\n

Get the right equipment<\/b><\/p>\n

Trying to bruise mint leaves with a knife was kind of annoying and not very efficient. The best piece of kitchen equipment<\/a> for this would be a pestle & mortar, preferably one with a hardwood handle, to get the best results.<\/p>\n\n

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There may be people in this world that think otherwise, but potatoes are possibly the most boring food ever. I loathe eating them unaltered in any way: mashed, boiled, roasted\u2026 what else can you do with a potato? Oh, wait, I don\u2019t care. Or at least I didn\u2019t until I decided to try and add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1031,988,305],"class_list":["post-18773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-medium-heat","tag-potatoes","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/culinaryguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}