Potato flakes

Try these recipes with potato flakes for quick, delicious side dishes! From soup to chicken to potato puffs, you'll love these tasty dishes.

These potato pancakes with instant potato flakes are Chef John's easy recipe for crispy and flavorful mashed potato pancakes, perfect as a side dish.

We all could use shortcuts in the kitchen from time to time (or ALL the time!). Let a box of mashed potato flakes help make soups, chicken, shepherd’s pie and more.

If you need to store garden potatoes without a root cellar, your options are limited. Or are they? Try this method for homemade potato flakes.

Potato flakes get a bad rap, but once you take them beyond the usual mash, you may find that you want to secure a little dedicated pantry space for them.

I recently planted two very large growing bags with potatoes. We've done this a couple of times with a huge amount of success. I end up giving quite a few away because I couldn't figure out how to store them all.... until my dehydrator! This is easy and I don't have to rely on prepackaged items. They store easily in a ball jar. I use these for more than just mashed potatoes. They are also a great thickener and the extra potato water can be used as a yeast starter.

This easy potato flake sourdough bread is a soft, delicious sandwich bread with a subtle tang and a hint of sweetness that is irresistible. Made with an easy to make potato flake sourdough starter.

This makeover recipe has about 40% fewer calories, two-thirds less fat, less than half the saturated fat, about half the cholesterol and a third less sodium of the original. Yet its comforting taste and creamy consistency will surely please the soup lovers in your family!—Bethany Thayer, Troutville, Virginia

This BEST bread recipe makes the most deliciously fluffy loaf of white bread. It tastes so much better than store-bought!

Curious about a potato flake sourdough starter? Learn from my experiences, experiments, and recipes so you don't have to learn the hard way.