Instructions You Follow –
- Boil a pot of water.
- Once the water is boiling, place your potatoes into the water and let it boil for approx.15 minutes. Using tongs or spoon, put potatoes into ice water and let it sit for 3 minutes.
- Then take the potatoes out of the ice water and slide your thumb across the skin’s surface – the skin will just peel right off! Using your fingers, peel off the rest of the potato skin.
How do you remove the skin from a boiled potato?
Discard the skin and place the peeled potato into a bowl until ready to use; continue removing the skins of the potatoes until they are all peeled. In place of a slotted spoon you can use a pair of kitchen tongs to remove the potatoes from the boiling water.
Can You peel potatoes without damaging the skins?
p margin-bottom: 0.21cm “fid”:”541066″,”viewmode”:”wysiwyg”,”fields”:”format”:”wysiwyg”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:”alt”:””,”title”:”removing new potato skin”,”style”:”border-top-width: 1px border-right-width: 1px border-bottom-width: 1px border-left-width: 1px border-top-style: solid border-right-style: solid border-bottom-style: solid border-left-style: solid margin-left: 1px margin-right: 1px margin-top: 1px margin-bottom: 1px float: left width: 250px height: 348px “,”class”:”media-element file-wysiwyg”How to remove skin from new potatoes? Maybe we should ask the ‘professional potato peelers’ in the restaurants because, they are the ones who sit with their pants folded up and scrub hundreds of potatoes every day.
- Maybe there are no professional potato peelers, maybe it is even a politically incorrect term to use.
- But this post is going to be all about removing potato skins, from the new potato that is.
- The difference between the regular potatoes and the new potatoes are the fact that the new potatoes don’t spend enough time under the soil.
That is right, the new potatoes are harvested before they can mature into regular potatoes. Therefore, the new potatoes have very tender skins. And to remove the skin from new potatoes is a fine art. So here are some tips to remove the skin from new potatoes.
- Place the new potatoes in a wide bowl and fill it with water.
- Enough water but not enough to spill over.
- Scrub the potatoes very gently with a commercially available vegetable brush.
- Don’t exert too much force on the potato skins because they are tender already.
- So, be careful not to damage the skins.
- Next, take a vegetable peeler and remove the skins from new potatoes, just like how you would do with other vegetables.
And again, do not exert too much force. If you do so, you will peel off a chunk of potato flesh with it. Do so very gently. If you are going to use the potatoes right away, then that is great. But if you want to use the use the potatoes after a few hours, you need to place them under the surface of water.
You may put the peeled potatoes in bowl, fill it with water, cover the lid, and store inside the refrigerator. You see, it is that simple a thing. You now know the proper ways to remove the skin from new potatoes. Ok, probably I am the only one who is this excited about a mundane job like peeling potatoes.
Any way, I think that my post would have helped you. Mazel Tov! Image courtesy: jailnotyale.blogspot.com
How to cook baked potato skins?
Ingredients –
- 2 lbs. baking potatoes
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 bunch green onions
- 4 tbsp. bacon bits
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 Russet potatoes
- 3 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cracked black pepper
- ¼ lb. ground beef
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- ½ cup shredded lettuce
- 1 sliced tomato
- ½ cup sliced black olive
- 1 peeled and diced avocado
- ½ cup crumbled tortilla chips
- 1 cup warmed cheese sauce
- 8 Russet potatoes
- 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1½ cups tuna salad
- 1½ cups shredded provolone cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 large potatoes
- non-fat cooking spray
- 1 tsp. chili powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- ½ tsp Tabasco sauce
- 4 slices extra lean turkey bacon
- 1 cup low-fat shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 medium diced tomatoes
- 4 chopped green onion stalks
- 1/2 cup low-fat sour cream
- 1 Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
- 2 Cut 2 lbs. baking potatoes in half lengthwise. Advertisement
- 3 Perforate the potatoes with a fork. Poke each potato with a fork a few times. This will help them cook in the microwave.
- 4 Microwave the potatoes on high until they’re cooked through.
Why do new potatoes have such tender skins?
p margin-bottom: 0.21cm “fid”:”541066″,”viewmode”:”wysiwyg”,”fields”:”format”:”wysiwyg”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:”alt”:””,”title”:”removing new potato skin”,”style”:”border-top-width: 1px border-right-width: 1px border-bottom-width: 1px border-left-width: 1px border-top-style: solid border-right-style: solid border-bottom-style: solid border-left-style: solid margin-left: 1px margin-right: 1px margin-top: 1px margin-bottom: 1px float: left width: 250px height: 348px “,”class”:”media-element file-wysiwyg”How to remove skin from new potatoes? Maybe we should ask the ‘professional potato peelers’ in the restaurants because, they are the ones who sit with their pants folded up and scrub hundreds of potatoes every day.
Maybe there are no professional potato peelers, maybe it is even a politically incorrect term to use. But this post is going to be all about removing potato skins, from the new potato that is. The difference between the regular potatoes and the new potatoes are the fact that the new potatoes don’t spend enough time under the soil.
That is right, the new potatoes are harvested before they can mature into regular potatoes. Therefore, the new potatoes have very tender skins. And to remove the skin from new potatoes is a fine art. So here are some tips to remove the skin from new potatoes.
- Place the new potatoes in a wide bowl and fill it with water.
- Enough water but not enough to spill over.
- Scrub the potatoes very gently with a commercially available vegetable brush.
- Don’t exert too much force on the potato skins because they are tender already.
- So, be careful not to damage the skins.
- Next, take a vegetable peeler and remove the skins from new potatoes, just like how you would do with other vegetables.
And again, do not exert too much force. If you do so, you will peel off a chunk of potato flesh with it. Do so very gently. If you are going to use the potatoes right away, then that is great. But if you want to use the use the potatoes after a few hours, you need to place them under the surface of water.
- You may put the peeled potatoes in bowl, fill it with water, cover the lid, and store inside the refrigerator.
- You see, it is that simple a thing.
- You now know the proper ways to remove the skin from new potatoes.
- Ok, probably I am the only one who is this excited about a mundane job like peeling potatoes.
Any way, I think that my post would have helped you. Mazel Tov! Image courtesy: jailnotyale.blogspot.com