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.

How to make Flaky Pancake

This looks like Roti Canai.

Simple potato pancake (Gamjajeon: 감자전)

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

How to Make Easy Pancakes

This Easy Pancake is from All Recipes.



Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt

1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Directions


You can make your pancake interesting by baking it in an oven.  Found this tip for "Apple Puffed Oven Pancake" from Eating Well.



Ingredients and Directions

If you prefer to add banana instead of apples, here is one from Better Homes and Gardens.

Easy Creamed Spinach (Spinach Gratin)

I found this Quick Creamed Spinach with Cream Cheese Recipe recipe on Masala Herb.  It is an interesting way to serve Spinach.  

I made some modifications to the recipe as I do not cook with olive oil.  I also do not keep stock of herbs usually used in Western dishes.

Here is another variation of it which you can cook with just onion and cream cheese.  It can be served: 

-spread over pancake and rolled up to be eaten.
-with the rolled up pancakes topped with cheese and baked in creamy sauce. 

You can watch this video for instructions.

Healthy Pancakes 4 Ways

Saw this "Healthy Pancakes 4 Ways" on Facebook and decided to create a meal card for all four recipes.


As I am working on a project to clear used enveloped and unused exercise books, I use Calibri font size 8 as I want it printed out on A5 paper in landscape format to put in envelopes which will work as a folder.



If you would like to make your own, you can find the recipes on Tasty.

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Banana Pancakes
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Blueberry Pancakes
Dark Chocolate Pancakes