Cooking potatoes: baking, boiling, cooking times to know
We would all like to know the exact cooking time for potatoes to have a melting and creamy vegetable in the mouth. There are time guides depending on the type of cooking you have chosen. Let’s see together the best practices for cooking potatoes!
Baking potatoes in the oven
How tasty is a potato that cooks with its skin on and whose whole interior is melting and creamy. This technique is called cooking the potato in its jacket.
To make potatoes in the oven: you can wrap them or not in aluminum foil and place them on a plate.
For medium-sized potatoes, it takes about 50 minutes in a preheated oven at 180°C.
Steaming Potatoes
There are several possible cooking utensils for this type of technique. They can be cooked in a steamer or in a pressure cooker. The operation will take 20 to 30 minutes depending on the size of your potatoes.
Cooking potatoes in water
Similar to steaming in terms of time, boiling potatoes requires adding a dose of salt to its cooking water to have a properly seasoned potato.
It takes about 20 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes and whether you have cut them or not.
Cooking potatoes in the microwave
You have no doubt already seen these little sachets which indicate that the potatoes can be cooked directly in their packaging.
We find ourselves in a way to steam cook the potatoes. These bags are often offered for small shot potatoes.
It takes about 10 minutes to cook.
Pan-fried potatoes
What could be more delicious than potato cubes sautéed in a pan in olive oil.
Nothing’s easier :
- We cut the potatoes with the skin, in cubes;
- Heat olive oil in a non-stick pan;
- You can then add the potato cubes with the garlic and sauté them in the pan for about 20 to 25 minutes until they are golden brown and melt-in-the-mouth;
- All that remains is to season to your taste: salt, pepper, spices, fresh herbs…
Cooking potatoes in homemade fries!
And if we started cooking fries. First of all, you have to have control over the temperature of the cooking oil to make perfect fries. The first step will therefore be to cut the potatoes into sticks, rinse them and then dry them perfectly so that they don’t stick.
Then, they are immersed in a frying oil bath at 160°C which will allow the formation of a crust. The second oil bath is at 180°C and allows the fries to brown nicely. The cooking time for the fries is 10 minutes.
You can also opt for an oven-fried version. In this case, we place our well-dried sticks in a bowl with oil, salt and pepper and place them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. It takes about 30 minutes in a very hot oven at 210°C, turning them halfway through cooking.
