Blue potatoes that grew purple |
Peeled blue potatoes |
Since I was making mashed potatoes, I peeled them. We had some cut in chunks and boiled and I thought the skin was kind of bitter. It was also tough.
Peeled and cut in half |
Here is what our peeled and cut in half blue potatoes looked like. Weird. The potatoes seemed harder to cut than other potatoes.
Better picture of cut blue potatoes |
Cut and ready to boil |
The potatoes are interesting with the different colors inside.
Mashed blue potatoes |
I cut the potatoes and treated them just like any other potatoes I intended to mash, so here they are cut and read to boil.
They boiled just fine, so I drained them and made them into mashed potatoes the same way I have made mashed potatoes in all my years of making them. According to the blue potato people, the mashed potatoes were supposed to be a nice sky blue. These weren't.
The mashed potatoes turned out gray, almost like concrete. They mashed up to a nice, light, fluffy concrete.
We did notice that if they set for even the shortest time, they really did turn out to be concrete like. You could pick up your whole serving of mashed potatoes with your hands and they'd stay in the same shape.
The texture was grainier than other potatoes and left your tongue feeling kind of fuzzy.
Blue and white mashed potatoes |
I won't be making mashed blue potatoes anymore, but they were just fine when I mixed them with white and purple skinned potatoes and just boiled, drained and buttered them.
The blue potatoes might be alright as potato salad and I did read they made great french fries. I'm going to give them a shot as french fries, so I'll let you know how they turn out.
I've never tried mashing blue potatoes, but I have used them in other ways and they were fine. I seem to recall that the texture is a little firmer than other potatoes, so that could make a difference.
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