- Meet the secrets of perfectly cooked potatoes – from choosing to cooking.
- Learn how simple tricks with butter and baking soda will make the potatoes cream and delicious.
- Discover the real nutritional value of potatoes and refute myths about their fattening properties.
- Surprise your loved ones with velvet potatoes – check how to do it!
Already 2 tablespoons of this will make the potatoes perfectly smooth and soft. Add straight to the pot
Cooked potatoes are the basis of Polish cuisine. Nobody knows as well on potatoes as Poles. We can prepare them like no other. Baked, fried, in the form of noodles or casseroles. Potatoes must be for dinner.
The simplest, but also the healthiest way to. Young potatoes can be cooked in skins because they have the most nutritional properties. Potato peels are rich in fiber, vitamin C and minerals such as potassium and magnesium. In addition, skins allow you to lower the potato glycemic index. Old potatoes are peeled because they have harder skin that can start germinating, which is very unhealthy.
Salt water should be cooked and then brought to a boil. After twisting the fire to a smaller one, boil the potatoes for around 20 minutes, until being soft. Our grandmothers added spices such as garlic or oregano to cooking potatoes. Thanks to this, the potatoes gained a delicate, herbal aftertaste. My grandmother always added 2 small teaspoons of fresh butter. The dissolved fat creates a thin layer on the surface, which closed the structure and made the potatoes cook evenly. It made potatoes ready and softer faster. They had a more creamy and velvety structure, thanks to which they melted in their mouths. A small amount of fat added to cooking potatoes will not significantly affect their caloric content.
Another way to make potatoes after cooking will be soda baking. Yes, without fear, you can add soda to potatoes. It will make the vegetable structure more creamy. Baking soda, increasing the alkalinity of water, accelerate the breakdown of pectins, thanks to which the cooking time will be shortened. Such cooked potatoes can be ready in 10 minutes. How to add baking soda to potatoes? It’s very simple, all you have to do is pour a pinch of powder into boiling water.
Potatoes – healthy or unhealthy? We refute myths
Over the years, potatoes were not very popular among people on a diet. There was a conviction that potatoes were fattening. Potatoes are actually a good source of carbohydrates. They add energy and also have a high satiety indicator, thanks to which we do not feel hunger after eating them for a long time. The belief that potatoes fattened probably came from the fact that many people add large amounts of fat to them. Our grandmothers served potatoes with lard or butter on top. Today, oil or olive oil is added to baking potatoes, but not mentioned in deep fat fried. Both fats and carbohydrates are responsible for swords for energy supply. Its two sources can be too much for most people and will not be properly used by the body.
. They contain a lot of fiber, vitamin C and vitamins of group B, as well as minerals such as potassium and magnesium. They support the immune system and are also good for digestion. Antioxidants contained from them protect against diseases and excessive aging of the body. There are only about 73 kcal in 100 grams of cooked potatoes.
