What to make for dinner with potatoes

Potatoes are cheap, filling and usually already in the cupboard. Beyond mash and chips they do aloo curries, soups, hashes and one-pan dinners. Let us pick one and show you the video.

Anything you don't eat?

Picks come from every potato video we have, whatever else is in the dish. If you avoid anything, try the dinner decider, which has a diet question.

We have 44 potato dinners to pick from, all cooking videos with captions, which makes a written recipe much more likely to work.

Potato dinners people cook

A few of the potato videos we pick from, each from a YouTube creator. Tap one to watch it, or use the button above to have one picked for you.

Tips for cooking with potatoes

  • Cut potatoes into even pieces so they all cook at the same speed.
  • Floury potatoes such as Maris Piper suit mash and roasties; waxy ones hold their shape in curries and salads.
  • Par-boil potatoes for a few minutes before frying to cut the pan time in half.

How it works

Tap the button and we pick one potato dinner at random from our cooking videos. Not feeling it? Pick again; you will not see the same video twice this visit. Happy with it? Watch it on YouTube, or tap "Get the written recipe" and sign in with Google to get the ingredients and steps written out.

Questions about potato dinners

Which potatoes should I use?

Whatever you have usually works. Waxy potatoes keep their shape in curries; floury ones break down into soups and mash.

Does this include sweet potatoes?

No. Sweet potatoes cook differently, so they are left out and every pick here uses ordinary potatoes.

Can I filter potato dinners by diet?

Not on this page yet: we do not have enough potato videos chosen for each diet to pick from fairly. Some picks include meat, so check the recipe. The dinner decider has a diet question.

More dinner ideas by ingredient

No ingredient in mind?

Let the dinner decider choose from your diet, time and the kind of food you fancy. Already found a video? Paste it into the YouTube to recipe converter.