Potatoes: 5 unmissable classic and American recipes

Incredibly versatile, suitable for every possible and imaginable combination, always connected to something special and family lunches, perfect both in winter and in summer: let’s talk about potatoes, a vegetable that very often saves our lunches and dinners and that today we will taste in 5 recipes unmissable; we will also include the so called American potatoes, the orange and tasty ones also called batate O sweet potatoes.

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Potatoes have been part of our daily kitchen for a “short time” compared to other parts of the world – did you know, for example, that the sacred dough of potato-based gnocchi actually originated decades earlier and without them? – yet they have also become part of our gastronomic tradition.

In version chips they are perhaps the most consumed ever, queens of happy hours and aperitifs: well, from now on and with our recipe you will be able to make them at home too, knowing that you can always put a pinch of personalization of your own. If you prefer classic baked potatoes, then you can’t miss the wonderful ones patate Hasselback or also called “accordion”: elegant and fun to make, have uncertain origins but are increasingly appreciated and you will love them very much if made with sweet potatoes!

We will then make a light version of the famous shepherd’s pie, a sort of potato gateau made with meat and vegetables, topped with a creamy layer of gratinated mashed potatoes: almost a single dish, to be served still hot in the middle of a festive table. As an alternative to the gateau, bet on the terrine of gratin potatoes, with a base of thin phyllo dough, lots of bechamel and thinly sliced ​​potatoes. We conclude with a flourish with a truly elegant and sophisticated first course, the cream of potatoes: a local version of vichyssoise or the cream of leeks and potatoes to be enjoyed at room temperature.