How To Freeze Potatoes

I'm going to show you how to freeze potatoes. Maybe you've picked up a huge bag from a local farmers market where you've just gotten an abundance of potatoes and you need to know what to do with them or you can actually freeze potatoes. What we've done with these, just to show you, I've already peeled them, and the best way is to just slice them up into really small pieces.

And then, what we're going to do, we're going to blanch them for a couple of minutes. It's very easy to freeze potatoes and they can keep a really long time - many, many months in your freezer. Start with some nice potatoes, not ones that, you know, don't look as though they're going to last because freezing them will preserve how long they last for, but it doesn't, of course, increase how fresh they are or how nice they were before you froze them.

So, just in little pieces, tiny little pieces I find work best, and then we're going to pop these over to a pan of boiling water. You can add salt to the water as well. However, I find it just tastes just as fine just using water on its own, and we're going to literally pop these in to blanch for about 3 minutes.

So, our potatoes have been blanching now for about 4 minutes, and that really is long enough. We don't want to overcook them because then, they will turn mashy and they lose some of their flavor. So, what we do is we need to cool them quickly, so we pop them into ice water.

You can run this under a cold tap as well if you don't have any ice water, but I do find that the ice water works best. Now, you leave these in the ice water really for as long as you blanched them for. So, these potatoes now have been cooling for about 4 minutes.

So we're going to pop them out. Now, I do find that it's best to leave potatoes just to dry naturally, maybe on a plate or on this work surface for a few minutes. However, you can dry them on a tea towel, on a clean tea towel or on some kitchen roll, but I don't advise it.

I think it's nice just leave them on the side. It just takes a bit of time to obviously avoid picking up the ice. You can just leave this, leave your potatoes to dry, let the air blow over them for about 1 minute.

Okay, so, literally, you have blanched your potatoes, you've popped them into the boil just for a few minutes and then we're just going to pop them into a freezer bag. It's probably best just to do it a little bit at a time because it is a bit fiddly. Get the air out of the bag and just simply roll them up over.

You can write the date on these bags or stick a little sticky note over if you need to know when you froze them. That really is it. You just need to pop them into the freezer.

So, that is how you can freeze potatoes. .