Polish Potato Varieties

I see Polish farmers continue to suffer a lack of EU export markets for their potato crops. And it's a natural state of affairs that those of us that live in the USA Southeast can pretty much only grow a few red potato varieties here. Plus sweet potatoes. I see a lot of information on boiling potatoes, salad potatoes and even crumbly potatoes. But little on high starch potatoes like Idaho Russet or typical UK Roasting types. What are the best Polish Potato varieties for baking, roasting and fries? The high starch powdery types.

E.g.Agata or Vineta, but there are plenty of others too. Poland is a potato, figuratively, of course.

For example, the most famous Polish potato in Germany is Kaczyński. 😇

Does Poland grow sweet potatoes ?
Sweet potatoes are rich in nutrients lacking in red, purple, and white potatoes, such as vitamin A.

@johnny reb
All true. If you like the taste of sweet mud anyway. Not sure it is the taste though. More like an odd texture. Like partly dehydrated grainy apple sauce.

In Ireland we would call it a 'floury' potato. You don't find them in Poland. There seems to be no tradition of roasting potatoes in Polish cuisine. Fries have been around a long time but in an old cookery book I saw, it recommended using 'watery varieties to make them! The fries here are a poor relation of the 'chips you get in the UK or Ireland. You need a nice dry spud for those :)

Poles like to mash their potatoes and purée them. Varieties of potato are often sold as 'kremowy', creamy and are very common in Poland. Drier spuds are Irga and Irys. I find that Irga are nearer to a floury spud but still not dry enough. The best one I've come across is Catania or Katania.

Are not really potatoes. I'm from the Southern US so I love sweet potatoes (called batat, pl bataty).They are often (not always) available in Biedronka.


also not much in the way of baked potatoes.... blame communism - ovens available in the PRL were not great and many people avoided using them as much as possible so there was a concentration on cooking on top of the stove (and some people didn't have ovens....).

my favorite potatoes in Poland are hard to find now... not too big, sort of flattened and yellow inside with a rich buttery taste... if I lived closer to a rynek I might be able to find them but no stores carry them....

My favorite too. Do you guys have access to the purple ones as well as the standard orangy brown ones?

As do I.
The sweet creamy texture makes for a nice sweet potato pie.
And they also make for great fries and chips.
The best part is that sweet potatoes are not as fattening as starchy white potatoes and have more vitamins in them.

That's what I thought too but in some areas the humble potato comes out on top. nutritics.com/en/resources/blog/sweet-potato-vs-regular-potato-how-do-they-compare

Only in potassium as far as I know.
Boiled sweet potatoes come out on top in terms of vitamin A & C, magnesium, calcium, iron and phosphorus.
White potatoes are higher in calories.
Only purple and red potatoes are healthier........ google said.

I'm not a fan.

They can be ok roasted however when I see them I can't get the memory out of my head of the potato shortage in the 1970s when school dinners were serving chips made out of them.

I prefer a nice normal potato, especially waxy ones. And love Jersey Royals. Hard to think of a better type.

My adopted UK relatives spoiled me on Maris Piper and King Edward potatoes in roasts. Very good floury potatoes. But those will not grow here. Nor do stores carry them here. Yukon Gold is the best we can do; but that is an all round potato. So not nearly as good as genuine flour types.

I heard potato bread was big in Poland. What potato is used for that? It should be a floury potato also great for roasting/baking/frying.

i love potatoes so much. but sweet potatoes I never had tasty sweet potatoes

It exists though it's not a big thing.

Potato farls (popular in Scotland) are very nice. I could live on those and nothing else,

I thought farls were an Irish thing.
Ms. Atch, your expertise here please !

Many of us have Irish roots and Ireland is almost visible from Scotland. There's a lot of culinary overlap, especially between Northern Ireland and the Scottish Central Belt.

Potato Farls are also popular across the industrial parts of Northern England.

There are also potato pancakes which are delicious.

I checked my DNA and it's all fake, who runs 23 and me? how come I have 1000 of relatives some arabs indian ... polish many americans etc... it's seems i'm sharing the spit with another human. or more

They are very distant relatives. Some of your relatives married people from other countries hence their names.

i dont look like i have any of these ancestors, i'd believe polish and secretly-Jewish. judging by the look in pictures of my mother's side, most of my mother side was killed horrifically by muslims.

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Yes jon, however potato farls originated in Ireland as a way to use left over mashed potatoes.
Using these leftovers makes farls quick and easy.


Yes, you may have mixed up "potato bread" with farls where that is true.


Yes, and those are a Polish thing and very fattening.
Paulina loves them.

So did half of Glasgow.
We call them potato scones (or, more often, tattie scones) here in Scotland, while our friends in Ireland call them potato farls.
glasgowsprout.com/traditional-scottish-potato-scones/

The word Farl just means quarter. They're cut into quarters before serving.


No.


More common in Northern England.

I'm really no expert - as Jon says there is a fair amount of overlap especially between the northern part of Ireland and Scotland. I would associate farls more with Northern Ireland. You do see them for sale in the Republic but they're not that popular, more of a thing for tourists. But I do remember my granny making something from leftover mashed potato and flour and frying it on the pan. The real 'Irish' potato cake type thing is boxty.

boxtyhouse.ie/

But again, very few Irish people make it at home these days.

In Germany you can buy "Kartoffelbrot" which is also made with the addition of potato flour.