potato ideas

[bubbles4920]

looking for ideas for potatoes to go with fish. wanting to cook gordon ramsays sea bream, he cooks mash with smoked haddock through it but want to do a different version, anything else to mix through mash that will go with fish or a different style of potato maybe. btw, im just no good at frying potatoes, becomes one heap of a mess!

[Sir Alec]

Onions in mash goes well with fish

[bubbles4920]

mmm thanks sir Alec, do you think prawns or other seafood would be ok and if so how would i cook it, dont want rubbery things in it!

[Sir Alec]

Buy frozen cooked prawns. Only need to defrost and warm gently, or add to hot food, then they wont go rubbery. Or......
Put 1tbs olive oil in a bowl. Add juice of half a lemon, a pinch of salt and quarter tsp english mustard. Mix well and add the prawns. It sounds strong for prawns, but is delicious! I use it for salads.

[Sir Alec]

Buy frozen cooked prawns. Only need to defrost and warm gently, or add to hot food, then they wont go rubbery. Or......
Put 1tbs olive oil in a bowl. Add juice of half a lemon, a pinch of salt and quarter tsp english mustard. Mix well and add the prawns. It sounds strong for prawns, but is delicious! I use it for salads. Sorry for the delay, my computer is really slow tonight.

[abbie1977]

Hi bubbles,

If you want variations on normal mashed potato:

Olive oil and roasted garlic

Horseradish

Crispy bacon and sauteed leeks

Chilli, olive oil and basil

Pesto

Dijon/wholegrain mustard

Mashed sweet potatoes with a dollop of creme fraiche

Potato rosti

roasted sweet potato

and loads more on uktv food's website too

xx

[Sir Alec]

Buy frozen cooked prawns. Only need to defrost and warm gently, or add to hot food, then they wont go rubbery. Or......
Put 1tbs olive oil in a bowl. Add juice of half a lemon, a pinch of salt and quarter tsp english mustard. Mix well and add the prawns. It sounds strong for prawns, but is delicious! I use it for salads. Sorry for the delay, my computer has sat here with the egg timer showing now for 10 mins! Don't know why this happens.

[cumbrianlad]

Aunt Bessies frozen mash mixed with Iceland frozen diced onion. Ten mins in micro. Trust me, its fab.

[Sir Alec]

How weird! There was no sign that my answers were going through. Apologies for the repetition. Had to "turn it off and on again".

[bubbles4920]

thanks for your great ideas. do you mean cook the prawns as said first then put them in the mash?

[Sir Alec]

noknowledge, the French have been cooking Lyonnaise potatoes for donkeys years. Are they wrong?

[Bathsheba]

If i'm boiling a pan of potatoes to mash i often sling a couple of sweet potatoes in (halfway through, they don't take long) x

[auchinairn]

im a chef and i put boiled carrots or turnip through the potato.the best way to do it is put the mashed potato in a liquidizer add the carrots or turnip add some butter then blitz for a few seconds.