Substitutes for Potatoes

Do you know that if you run out of potatoes, you can use green bananas as substitute?  You can learn how to cook green bananas by watching this video.

This is a simpler version which is like how you would cook your potatoes but I would rather boil my potatoes in my ABC soup.  Makes me wonder how it will affect the soup flavour if I use green bananas.  I will let you know if I try this experiment.

I would just add butter and not cook the mashed bananas further if they are still hot.

I saw another green bananas recipe on Facebook. Instead of boiling the bananas, the cook grated them.  These are the ingredients required based on the video shared:

I did a search for other substitutes and discovered the following sites:

10 Healthy Alternatives To Mashed Potatoes

9 Low Carb Potato Substitutes + 50 Ways to Use Them

For days, when your bananas are too ripe for the above recipes, you can make pancakes out of them with eggs.

These are the ingredients for making these pancakes.

Shepherd’s Pie

Recently, I came across a video on Pinterest on how to cook Shepherd’s Pie by Lil’ Luna.  It has been a while since I cooked it and her video inspired me to make it again.  

There are 26 ingredients used in her Shepherd’s Pie.  As I do not cook Western dishes often, I have to modify the recipe because I am not willing to buy ingredients that I may only use once in the recipe.  I found another video on YouTube that is similar to the way it is made on Lil’ Luna. However, in this video the onion and carrot are saute first before the meat is added to cook, which is the way I prefer to prepare the filling.

Since I need meshed potatoes, I decided to make it when I boiled ABC soup.  Check out how I made my Shepherd’s Pie with only 17 ingredients. You can see clearly, the adaptations I have made to the recipe in this chart I have created:

I made a discovery on Pinterest that I can use the press we have at home to make it easier to mesh up the cooked potatoes.

Crispy Smashed Potatoes

The next time you boil your ABC soup, do a "planned over" and add more whole potatoes so that you can cook this Crispy Smashed Potatoes dish.

 

As we do not use olive oil in Chinese cooking, I  have replaced it with garlic oil.



Source:
https://www.recipetineats.com/crispy-smashed-potatoes/