Dried potatoes for future use - how to prepare dried potatoes at home.

Categories: Drying

Dried potatoes are most often prepared when you need to take a lot of food with you, and the ability to move weight is limited. This is where drying food and vegetables comes to the rescue. Everyone knows how to dry crackers. Do you know how to dry potatoes? If not, then we suggest you find out how to do it correctly.

Ingredients: potato

How to cook dry potatoes for future use at home.

Home production of dried potatoes can occur at any time of the year.

Potato

This process begins with washing all the tubers several times and sorting them by size: small potatoes in one pile, medium ones in another, large ones in a third.

We take potatoes of approximately the same size and set to cook: small ones - 7-8 minutes, large ones - 12 minutes. Boil the potatoes until half cooked - this will reduce waste.

Peel the partially cooked tubers in their skins, cut them into thin circles or bars and dry them in a hot oven with the door slightly open - this will evaporate the liquid faster.

The potatoes will not dry immediately; you will need to do several steps. Usually three times is enough and the dried potatoes are ready.

We place the workpiece in paper or linen bags, or glass jars. It can be stored in a kitchen cabinet or pantry for several years.

This preparation of dried potatoes will be useful for tourists and winter gardeners. On a long journey, it will be simply worth its weight in gold. After all, from 1 kg of such dried potatoes you will get 6-8 kg of mashed potatoes.We prepare first and second courses from this preparation, just like from fresh potatoes.

See also video: How to dry potatoes when camping or traveling.