Adirondack Blue Seed Potato 6 Tubers - Heirloom - Great Taste!
Potatoes have gotten a bad rap lately, but we still love them. Blue potatoes are becoming less of a novelty these days and it's become popular to slice them up with the more common red and white varieties, for a patriotic potato salad. 'All Blue' on its own makes a striking side dish. The inside flesh retains some of its blue color when cooked and mashed and the skin is almost purple. Looking at them, you might expect them to be grape flavored, but they're all potato.Blue potatoes have a long history, especially in their native South America, where they may be dried or used for dishes such as potato cakes and salads containing pungent anchovies, chiles and fresh herbs. South Americans historically have different techniques of freeze-drying potato slices to preserve them, and recipes that incorporate reconstituted papa seca.Domestic farms specializing in heirloom produce have brought blue potatoes to the market for years. So, blue potatoes are not new to the market per se. But they are new to the masses.What gives these spuds their color are anthocyanin pigments, which are responsible for red, purple and blue vegetables and fruits, and have value as antioxidants. So, blue potatoes have higher levels of antioxidants than non-blue potatoes.The blue or purple color does not impart an unexpected flavor. Typically, the taste of blue potatoes has been described as rich and nutty, though there are some non-blue types that have a similar flavor profile. There is enough starch in blue potatoes to make them good for mashing but they're also moist and waxy enough to hold together in potato salad.You will receive 10 blue potato sets.