Recipes with potato
The potato took two centuries to leave the Andes and become European, and it kept from that journey a double identity that the recipes below make plain. In Peru, where it comes from, it is colourful, varied, served cold and sauced: causa limeña mashes it with lime and yellow chilli, papa a la huancaína drowns it in a sauce of fresh cheese and ají.
In Europe it became a material prized for texture. The north turns it into grated cakes where the starch does the gluing — draniki, placki ziemniaczane, raggmunk — and into doughs to be stuffed, such as pierogi and varenyky. Spain draws from it the potato tortilla, a national dish built on slow cooking in oil, and patatas bravas.
India and Ethiopia adopted it without hesitation and treat it as a vegetable for spices: aloo gobi, atakilt wat, the filling of masala dosa.
The variety is never a detail: a waxy potato holds its shape in a stew and falls apart in a mash, a floury one does the opposite. Each recipe says which it wants.
- Recipes on the site
- 36
- Countries represented
- 19
- Vegan
- 17
- Gluten-free
- 21
The best represented countries: Spain (5) · France (5) · India (4) · Peru (3) · Poland (3) · Israel (2)
These recipes also use: onion (5) · butter (4) · cream (4) · turmeric (4) · cheese (4)
The recipes
Chile⏱ 50 minMilcao
Potato cakes made from raw and cooked potato browned in a pan, the everyday bread of the Chiloé archipelago.
Denmark⏱ 45 minDanish caramelised potatoes
Small boiled potatoes rolled in melted sugar and butter until they glaze and shine. The Danish Christmas table side dish.
Ethiopia⏱ 55 minAtakilt wat
Potatoes, carrots and cabbage stewed soft in a golden turmeric sauce with a restrained hand of berbere.
Fiji⏱ 50 minAloo boda tarkari
A potato and black-eyed bean curry with cumin and turmeric, cooked the way Indo-Fijian families cook it at home.
France⏱ 45 minCrispy vegetable fritters
Grated zucchini, carrot and potato bound with egg and a little flour, then pan-fried into small golden, crispy vegetable fritters.
France⏱ 35 minFrench potato salad with shallot vinaigrette
French potato salad with no mayonnaise: waxy potatoes dressed warm in a mustard and shallot vinaigrette with parsley and chives.
France⏱ 115 minGratin dauphinois, creamy garlic potato bake
Classic French gratin dauphinois: thinly sliced potatoes baked slowly in garlicky milk and cream until golden, with no cheese at all.
France⏱ 85 minVegetarian shepherd's pie with lentils and mushrooms (hachis parmentier)
A vegetarian shepherd's pie in the French hachis parmentier style: green lentils and mushrooms simmered with tomato, carrot and celery under a buttery, nutmeg-scented mash browned in the oven.
France⏱ 65 minVegetarian tartiflette
The Savoyard gratin without bacon, potatoes, melted onions and cream under a layer of oozing reblochon cheese.
Hungary⏱ 55 minHungarian Paprikás Krumpli
The classic Hungarian potato and sweet pepper stew, infused with rich, ruby-red sweet Szeged paprika in a comforting rustic broth.
India⏱ 50 minAloo gobi
A dry curry of potatoes and cauliflower turned golden with turmeric, cumin and coriander, caramelised at the edges and soft inside.
India⏱ 70 minMalai kofta
Golden paneer and potato dumplings served in a velvety tomato, cashew and cream sauce scented with garam masala.
India⏱ 70 minMasala dosa
A thin, crisp fermented rice crêpe rolled around a soft turmeric potato filling, straight from South India.
India⏱ 70 minVegetable samosas
These vegetable samosas are crisp pastry triangles filled with spiced potatoes and green peas, fried or baked until golden, served with a tangy chutney.
Israel⏱ 55 minPotato Bourekas
Israeli puff pastries filled with cumin-scented mashed potato, glazed and seeded, sold in every bakery in the country.
Israel⏱ 95 minPotato Kugel
An Ashkenazi bake of grated potato and onion, cooked long enough to build a brown crust and caramelised edges.
Italy⏱ 90 minGnocchi with sage butter
Homemade potato gnocchi, light as clouds, simply tossed in a nutty brown butter scented with sage and finished with Parmesan.
Morocco⏱ 50 minMaakouda
Moroccan mashed potato patties with garlic, parsley and turmeric, breadcrumbed and fried until deeply golden and crisp.
Norway⏱ 70 minLefse
Norwegian potato flatbreads rolled paper thin and cooked on a dry griddle, folded over butter and cinnamon sugar.
Peru⏱ 55 minCausa limeña
A chilled terrine of yellow potato whipped with ají amarillo and lime, layered with avocado, olives and a creamy hearts of palm filling.
Peru⏱ 55 minMushroom cau cau
Potatoes and mushrooms in a turmeric and ají amarillo sauce, finished with fresh mint and served over white rice.
Peru⏱ 40 minPapa a la huancaína
Warm yellow potatoes under a cold Peruvian sauce of ají amarillo, fresh cheese and evaporated milk.
Poland⏱ 45 minKopytka
Polish potato dumplings cut into little diamonds from a soft dough, poached and folded through a paprika tomato sauce.
Poland⏱ 45 minPlacki Ziemniaczane
Grated potato pancakes fried until the edges turn lacy and brown, served with sour cream as every Polish kitchen does.
Poland⏱ 90 minPotato pierogi
Polish dumplings in a soft eggless dough, filled with mashed potato and sweet slow-cooked onion and served under a heap of fried onions.
Portugal⏱ 45 minCaldo Verde
A silky potato soup scattered with hair-thin ribbons of kale, lifted at the table by a generous swirl of green olive oil.
Russia⏱ 50 minDraniki
Crisp grated potato and onion fritters fried until deep brown, topped with soured cream and buttery sautéed mushrooms.
Spain⏱ 50 minPatatas a lo pobre, Spanish poor man's potatoes
Potatoes, onion and green pepper slowly confited in olive oil with garlic: the classic Spanish side dish, vegan and gluten-free.
Spain⏱ 60 minPatatas bravas
Crisp roasted potato cubes smothered in a fiery smoked paprika tomato sauce and dolloped with a garlicky plant-based aioli.
Spain⏱ 40 minSpanish green beans with potatoes and garlic
Green beans and potatoes boiled together, then tossed with garlic and smoked paprika in olive oil. A simple Spanish dish, vegan and gluten-free.
Spain⏱ 35 minSpanish Patatas al Alioli
The Spanish tapas bar standard: boiled potato cubes turned in a homemade garlic alioli, with flat-leaf parsley over the top.
Spain⏱ 50 minSpanish potato tortilla
The thick, tender Spanish omelette, potatoes and onions slowly cooked in olive oil then bound with eggs.
Sweden⏱ 80 minHasselback Potatoes
Potatoes sliced into thin fans, brushed with butter and roasted until every slice separates into a crisp ridge.
Sweden⏱ 45 minRaggmunk
Swedish grated potato pancakes fried in butter until the edges turn lacy and crisp, served with cold lingonberry jam.
Tunisia⏱ 35 minBrik à l'œuf
A sheet of malsouka folded over crushed potato and a whole egg, fried for seconds and eaten with the fingers.
Ukraine⏱ 80 minVarenyky
Ukrainian dumplings stuffed with cheesy mashed potato, boiled until tender and tumbled through butter-fried onions.