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What can I do with unpleasantly sweet ordinary potatoes?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I've kept new potatoes too long in the fridge and I find them unpleasantly sweet. They've been steamed in their jackets.
What can I do with them from cold?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What a shame. Potatoes should never be kept in the fridge. It turns the starches into sugars. 😞 
    not sure what you can do with them … maybe cooked, sliced and fried so that some of the sugars are caramelised … that might work with maple-cured bacon and fried tomatoes sort of thing? 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2021
    I thought the instructions on the bag were a bit strange but hey ho  give it a go. They were best before 17/ 6 so they've been sugaring up for a while.I
    Lesson learnt. Thanks @Dovefromabove
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I'd make a potato salad with a tart dressing including capers and chives and spring onions and maybe a dollop of horseradish.  That'd sort 'em!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That'd learn em!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If you hadn't already cooked them I'd say put them in a curry with a good sharp ingredient like tamarind.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    I agree with dove, slice them and fry them in some butter, top with bacon and egg (if that's to your taste) and call them breakfast.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    There are some good cakes with sweet pots. Like with courgette or beetroot cake, it acts like a binder.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Different kind of sweet potato @fire .🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    give it a go anyway...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Lots of regular potato chocolate cakes out there too.
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