Sunday 6 September 2015

Salt Potatoes

Carole's Chatter: Salt Potatoes


I had never heard of Salt Potatoes before seeing a reference to them by BookChickDi (one of my co-participants in the wonderful link up by Beth Fish Reads called Weekend Cooking).

After doing a bit of research I found that these potatoes are a speciality of Syracuse, New York.  They were simple to cook.  I used small ordinary boiling potatoes – next time I'll wait for the tiny new potatoes.

To cook Salt Potatoes all that is different from normal boiling is that you use 1 part salt to every 6 parts of water – that's a whole lot of salt.

The potatoes weren't over salty and tasted good served with lashings of melted butter.

9 comments:

  1. I have never heard of salt potatoes but I am going to have to try these!! I love all things SALTY! I happen to have LOTS of salt on hand. A few YEARS ago LD amd I were at Sam's and since I was out of salt and didn't want to have to stop at a regular grocery store on he way home - we bought a bag of salt! A 20 POUND bag of salt!! I won't be needing to buy any more for a vey LONG time!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I'm going to try this with the next breadfruit I cook. Would be interesting.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Potatoes are one of my favorite vegetables, but I'm trying to cut back on carbs and sodium. Still, I'm adding this recipe to my list.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I've never heard of salt potatoes either -- interesting!

    ReplyDelete
  5. I have heard of these but never tried to make them. I might give them a shot.

    ReplyDelete
  6. I have heard of salt potatoes, but never tried them. I will have to give them a go!

    ReplyDelete
  7. I have a friend who has a house in Syracuse and she brings me back a bag whenever she goes upstate,

    ReplyDelete
  8. I am a huge potato fan, but the only way I don't like them is boiled. Don't know why - the texture, maybe.

    ReplyDelete
  9. That is funny as I remember someone recently talking about salt potatoes and I had no idea what they were either! YUM!

    ReplyDelete

Your comments are most welcome. I have currently disabled anonymous comments due to unwanted spam. Cheers