Potato Tikki

Ingredients:

• 500 grams (about two cups) Boiled potatoes
• 1 tsp Chili powder
• 1 tsp  Cumin powder
• 1/2 tsp Green chili (optional)
• Black Pepper (to taste0
• 1/2 tsp Salt 1/2
• 4 tbsp Cilantro
• 2 tbsp Rice flour
• 1 tsp Lemon Juice

Directions:
Boil potatoes
Mash potatoes and add spices.
Mix thoroughly.
Form into patties and make sure edges are smooth.
Fry in a shallow pan 2-3 minutes per side.
Enjoy with some chutney.

Braised Red Potatoes

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 pounds small red potatoes, unpeeled, halved
• 2 cups water
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
• 3 sprigs fresh thymed (or dried if you can't pickup fresh)
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Directions:

1. Arrange potatoes in single layer, cut side down, in 12-inch nonstick skillet. Add water, butter, garlic, thyme, and salt and pepper and bring to simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and simmer until potatoes are just tender, about 15 minutes.
2. Remove lid and use slotted spoon to transfer garlic to cutting board; discard thyme. Increase heat to medium-high and vigorously simmer, swirling pan occasionally, until water evaporates and butter starts to sizzle, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Continue to cook potatoes, swirling pan frequently so the potatoes don't stick to the pan, until butter browns and cut sides of potatoes turn spotty brown, 4 to 6 minutes longer. Off heat, add lemon juice.  Serve immediately.

Lemon Thyme Roasted Potatoes

Ingredients:

• 4-5 medium small Potatoes, cut into cubes
• 4-6 Tbls Butter
• 1 Lemon
• 1 Tbls Thyme (fresh or dried)
• Salt and Pepper to taste
• 4-6 Cloves Garlic

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cut potatoes into cubes and put in a bowel
3. Melt the butter and toss with the potatoes
4. Mince 4-6 garlic cloves and add to the mix
5. Squeeze half a lemon into the mix.
6. Slice up the rest of the lemon into thin slices and add to the bowl.
7. Chop up the thyme and throw it in. 
8. Add at least 1 tsp of salt and some pepper
9. Put mixture in a roasting pan and cook until slightly crispy, about 45 minutes. 

Nonny's mashed potatoes

• 5 lbs potatoes
• 1 cup sour cream
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1/4 tsp salt and pepper
• 1 clove garlic, mashed
• 2 Tbsp butter

1. Set oven to 350.
2. Peel, chop and boil potatoes until tender.
3. Soften cream cheese and butter.
4. Drain potatoes when done and blend with remaining ingredients.
5. Bake for 30 minutes.

Oven Roasted Potatoes

These potatoes cook up easily, require little in the way of prep or attention and you can add carrots, onions, garlic or even nasty turnips or parsnips to them. As pictured, I used just potatoes because I served them with the Sunday Dinner Pot Roast which already had carrots and onions.

Ingredients:

1 pound red potatoes, washed and cut into large chunks
About 2 t olive oil

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Line a jelly roll pan with foil and spray with cooking spray.
3. Toss the potato chunks with the olive oil until they are lightly coated.
4. Place the potato chunks on the pan and bake for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper at the table
6. Enjoy!

Sliced Baked Potatoes--Two Versions!

Version 1

Version 2

How do you find new recipes? I find a lot of mine while eating out or surfing the web. I ran across an image for this recipe a couple of weeks ago on Pinterest (if you want an invitation, let me know). Well I like potatoes, and these seemed pretty interesting so I thought I’d give it a try. We tend to go meatless a couple of days a week and this looked like a hearty, meatless entrée to me.

I googled sliced baked potatoes and found a handful of recipes so I sort of combined them all together to create my own.

Be warned, my version isn’t a hands-off recipe. You’ll need to tend to your potatoes about every 10 minutes until they are cooked.

Ingredients:

2 large baking potatoes, scrubbed and with the skin on
4 T butter, melted
½ C shredded cheese, your choice (I use cheddar/jack cheese from Costco)
Italian seasoning to taste

Directions:


Version 1

1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
2. Place two wooden spoons on a cutting board about as far apart as your potatoes are wide. Use the handles to hold your potato in place as you slice the potatoes and to keep you from slicing all the way through. You want the bottom of the potato to remain intact. Also, slice thinly—my slices are about ¼ inch wide.
3. Place the sliced potatoes in a baking pan. I use cooking spray only because I wanted an easier clean up session afterwards.
4. Carefully open your sliced potatoes and drizzle the melted butter across them. Don’t worry when it runs out the sides—you will be basting the potatoes with this butter throughout the cooking process.
5. Sprinkle the Italian seasoning on the potatoes and try to get some inside the slices.
6. Bake for a total of 60 minutes. Important! About every 10 minutes, pull the potatoes out and re-baste with the butter. Also turn them over. That will let all the skin get a butter bath.
7. After 60 minutes, remove from the oven.
8. Sprinkle the shredded cheese over the potatoes and return to the oven for about 10 minutes.
9. When done, place each potato in a shallow bowl. Pour the remaining melted butter over the potatoes.
10. Enjoy!

Version 2

1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
2. Slice the potatoes into thin slices, preferably about ¼ inch wide.
3. Pour about half of the melted butter into a large baking dish (9x13) that’s been sprayed with cooking spray. Tilt the pan around until you’ve coated the entire bottom of the pan.
4. Place the sliced potatoes in the so that the slices are in no more than two layers. Ideally you want just one layer of potatoes.
5. Drizzle the melted butter across the slices.
6. Sprinkle the Italian seasoning on the slices.
7. Bake for about 60 minutes. About every 15 minutes, pull the potatoes out and flip them. This helps a lot with ensuring the potatoes brown evenly.
8. After 60 minutes, remove from the oven and sprinkle the shredded cheese over the potatoes. Bake for another five minutes or until the cheese is all melted.
9. Serve with sour cream if you feel decadent.
10. Enjoy!