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Thread ID: 119936	2011-08-17 10:09:00	How do you cook your kumara potatoes?	Question (15792)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1224018	2011-08-17 10:09:00	As title. Boiled, baked, etc? Do you put salt or herbs on it?	Question (15792)
1224019	2011-08-17 10:11:00	You can roast, boil it / mash it. Put them in a boil-up, with spuds. Put whatever you want on it. Youre eating it :p	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1224020	2011-08-17 10:20:00	cook with carrots and mash - add seasoning :)	Zippity (58)
1224021	2011-08-17 10:22:00	What Speedy says. Boil, roast, mash, chip; and/or mix with spuds to boil, roast or mash, whatever blows your skirt up. Put them in a vege soup as well. Kumara are tops whichever way you prepare them. Yes to salt, every way you cook them. We put herbs in (specifically rosemary and sometimes thyme) when we roast them with other veges and chook. Otherwise no herbs with the other forms of cooking. Kumara are super sweet and have a lovely flavour - I wouldn't mess that flavour around with any other herbs than rosemary/thyme in the roast method. You can roast them on their own - parboil them with salt, drain the water off and rough them up a bit in the colander, then roast with olive oil sprinkled over them. Don't worry about cooking too many - you can refry leftovers the following day with a bit of olive oil in the bottom of the frypan. I love them cold as well - just eat them like chips or you can put them in a salad. Don't forget to try both the orange and the red varieties - in the Cook Islands we only got the orange ones - out of an umu (the Cook Is hangi) the orange ones are superb.	John H (8)
1224022	2011-08-17 10:24:00	roasted	GameJunkie (72)
1224023	2011-08-17 10:41:00	I take a lazy approach and just zap them in the microwave, without any seasoning. They can be quite variable, and sometimes need a LOT of cooking. As a general rule of thumb, I'd cook them twice as hard as most other veges.	Paul.Cov (425)
1224024	2011-08-17 11:32:00	you can boil and then pan fry them .. with salt, pepper or herbs. rosemary goes well with potatoes, you could use parsely, thyme, oregano etc. you can boil them. doesn't kumara get a bit too watery that way thou. you can roast them. you can mash them and add the above and milk or cream. you can also add red cayenne pepper, ground cumin and papirika. use your imagination. you can put the mash on top of a meat mince pie. you might want to use a fork nad prick the potatoes before you cook them. i like to put them in a salad with a soft boiled egg with left over chicken or steak thin sliced - medium rare or chirzo sausages chopped :p with pine nut pan fried lightly and/or basil pesto, sunflower seeds :p so much better than sandwiches where you eat so little and just 2 big pieces of bread.	Nomad (952)
1224025	2011-08-17 11:37:00	you can boil them. doesn't kumara get a bit too watery that way thou. Unless you boil them in oil, I suppose they will be watery till you drain them :p	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1224026	2011-08-17 11:52:00	that would be fried then :D kumara is a softer vegetable than potatoes and then if you boil them in water ..	Nomad (952)
1224027	2011-08-17 11:55:00	Depends what you do with them after. Obviously you have to take them out of the pot to eat them lol. Then they wont be wet :p	Speedy Gonzales (78)
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