How to Make Potato Tart

A tart is a pastry dish with opening so that you can bake it filled with sweet or savoury ingredients like:

-fruit
-custard
-chocolate
-cheese
-mushrooms,
-curry
-pastry cream, also known as, crème pâtissière

Shortcrust is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or flan.  To make a basic shortcrust pastry you require:

-plain flour
-butter
-milk
-a pinch of salt

Sugar can be added for sweet shortcrust pastry.  Some recipes use an egg yolk to to create a richer, more tender, and flavourful crust with a golden hue.  A thin layer of egg yolk can also be brushed on the blind-baked shell to seal it and prevent the filling from leaking.

You can watch this video to learn how to make it.

You can learn more about tart from Hali, a French-trained baker, at the following link:

A guide to tart crust

Do you know that you can make your "tart" with mashed potatoes?  You can learn how to make it and cook the fillings from this video:

I prefer the simpler version as shown in the following video:

Crispy Potato Tart recipe

I will use pork instead of chicken to cook it.  These are the ingredients required:

I will consider using my sardine with onion dish as fillings:

 Or my peppers, onion and carrot dish:

I wonder if it will taste good with scrambled eggs and tomatoes added as fillings.

Should I can mash the potato from my curry dish to make the tart and tear apart the chicken to add as filling?

I can also use this filling for making chicken curry puff.

Mix and Match Dish with Potato

I wrote about my Mix and Match Dish earlier.  

I discovered recently that if I have leftover BBQ chicken...

...which I have reheated with my leftover bell pepper dish...

...I can enhance its flavour further by adding boiled potato which I have cut into small cubes.

Instead of boiling potato for this mix and match dish, I prefer to use those boiled in my ABC Soup.  

Easy Way to cook Chicken Breast

 I am not a fan of chicken breast but this looks like an interesting way to eat it.

These are the ingredients required to cook it:

These are the ingredients for the mashed potato dish:

Fried Toast Sandwich

Do you know that sandwiches can be deepfried?  See how it is made in Korea.  It is a popular street food that you can find at traditional markets there.

These are the ingredients and steps to make nine sandwiches.

Can pick up some tricks on how to make the work easier if you watch how it is made at a stall in high quantity.

Stuffed Bell Peppers

I changed my mind. The easiest way to cut bell peppers is to cut both ends off first.

These I will keep to cook my Sweet and Sour Pork dish.

I have just discovered a way to serve bell pepper and that is to stuff it with cooked potatoe cut into cubes before I air fry it. 

I cut the top off the bell pepper and use the potato from my ABC soup. This is what I did to make the potato more flavourful before I air fry the stuffed bell pepper.

If you like piquant food, you can cook your potato this way:

Di San Xian: Potato, Eggplant & Pepper Stir Fry (地三鲜)

Discovered a dish shared on Taste Life that has potato, eggplant and bell pepper. All the ingredients my family enjoys eating. It is Di San Xian.  I decided to share the video from Chinese Cooking Demystified as I like the tips shared on preparing the ingredients to be cooked.

This is how I will cook it:

Instead of using lots of oil to deep fry the veggies, I will most likely cut them into slices so that I can air fry them in a round metal container with garlic oil.

Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Ruffles

If you learn to make your own ruffles, you can control the amount of salt in them.  Start the video at 31.36 minute into it if you are only interested in getting straight to the recipe.

Watch this video on The Scene.

Simple potato pancake (Gamjajeon: 감자전)

Kids love to eat pancake.  This is a Korean version.

ONE POT CREAMY CHICKEN CORN CHOWDER

If you enjoy eating corn and potato, you should enjoy eating Creamy Chicken Corn Chowder.

If you do not like cooking with too many ingredients, try cooking Quick Potato Corn Chowder.  Note that 1 cup of milk is required in this recipe and it is divided in half to be used separately.  So, this recipe requires only 9 ingredients.

Fast food? Can't beat them? Join them!

I love my children and I hate it when I have to object to the kind of stuff they love to eat. And, that is, if it is not instant then its deep fried meals that they are always on the look out for at fast food chains.

I managed to work out an idea for their love of instant noodle with leftover sauce but with deep fried food, it is more difficult.

Since they love eating fried food, I decided to use this method to cook stuff they do not like to eat or are bore of eating in its usual manner. Here are a list of stuff I have tried that the children love to eat:


1) Bitter gourd marinate with magic sauce before dipping it in tempura flour batter to deep fry.

2) French toast with leftover bread fried in batter of plain four, rice flour and an egg with salt and sugar to taste. Use a ratio of 1:2 for flour, that is, 1 Tbsp rice flour to 2 Tbsp plain flour.



Any leftover batter can be used to fry pan cake.



3) Pan fried potato toast. I meshed potato from a soup I have boiled for the day. Mixed that with batter for making French Toast. Add sugar and salt to taste and more rice and plain flour, at ratio of 1:2, if the mixture will not hold together for frying. Cut the bread into quarters (half and half again) and spread that on bread on one side and pan fry the potato spread side first.



If you have more bread to fry and the potato batter is low, just prepare more batter with just rice flour and plain flour at ratio of 1:2 and add to it. Dip the cut bread into the batter and deep fry it.



Any leftover batter can be used to fry pancake.



Like the leftover potato recipes? I have more ways with that. Watch out for it in my next posting.