Potatoes

🇺🇸United States

Funeral Potatoes

A Utah and Mormon potluck casserole of shredded potatoes, cream soup, sour cream, cheese, and a buttery cornflake top.

🇺🇸Rochester, United States

Garbage Plate

A Rochester, New York creation: a plate of home fries and macaroni salad under cheeseburgers or hot dogs, smothered in hot sauce, onions, and mustard.

🇩🇪Germany

Gedadschde

Gedadschde are rough potato dumplings made from grated potato and flour, boiled until tender and served with butter or sauce.

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Gromperekichelcher

Grated potato with onion, shallot and parsley bound with a little flour and egg, deep-fried in ragged palm-sized cakes.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Haruľa

Grated raw potato bound with flour, egg, garlic and marjoram, fried flat in fat until crisp at the edges.

🇺🇸United States

Hash browns

Shredded potatoes griddled until crispy and golden — the diner breakfast side.

🇸🇪Sweden

Hasselback Potatoes

Hasselbackspotatis

Potatoes sliced thinly but not all the way through, baked with butter until crispy and fan-like.

🇺🇸United States

Home Fries

Diced or sliced potatoes pan-fried with onions until browned — a diner breakfast side.

🇳🇱Netherlands

Hot Lightning

Hete bliksem

Traditional mash of potatoes and apples (both sweet and tart), topped with fried bacon and onions, name means 'hot lightning'.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Ibijumba

Sweet potatoes roasted over fire or in ashes, eaten as a breakfast or snack; one of the most common morning foods in rural Rwanda, sold at roadside stalls and eaten with tea.

🇷🇼Rwanda

Ibirayi

Potatoes cut and fried, served as a side with brochettes or grilled fish; potatoes were introduced by German and Belgian colonists and became a Rwandan staple, grown mainly in Gitarama and Butare.

🇰🇪Kenya

Irio

A Kikuyu staple of mashed peas, potatoes, and maize, a daily and home classic

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Jacket Potato

A large baking potato cooked in its skin until the inside is floury, split open and loaded with butter, cheese, beans or tuna.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Jacket Potatoes with Cheese

Gschwellti

Potatoes boiled whole in their skins and eaten hot with cheese, butter and pickles, the standard partner to raclette and cold cuts.

🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

Jaén Garlic-and-Flour Stew

Ajo Harina

Jaén Garlic-and-Flour Stew combines potatoes, peppers, garlic, paprika, and flour into a thick spoonable dish, sometimes enriched with cod.

🇯🇪Jersey

Jersey Royal Potatoes

A small early potato grown on steep seaweed-fertilised slopes, with papery skin and a distinct sweet, nutty taste.

🇺🇸United States

Jo Jo Potatoes

A Pacific Northwest tavern staple: thick-cut, battered or breaded, deep-fried potato wedges.

🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

Kartoffelschmarrn

Kartoffelschmarrn tears cooked potatoes into rough pieces and fries them in butter until crisp and golden.

🇧🇾Belarus

Kartoflianiki

Картапляникі

Balls of boiled mashed potato stuffed with fried mushrooms, curd or minced meat, then fried or baked in sour cream.

🇧🇹Bhutan

Kewa Datshi

ཀེ་བ་དར་ཚིལ།

Potato sliced thin and cooked in the same cheese sauce with a few chillies, the gentlest of the datshi family.

🇧🇦Bosanska Krajina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kljukuša

Grated potato mixed with flour, egg and water, baked in a shallow pan and served drenched in soured milk or cream and garlic.

🇯🇵Japan

Korokke

コロッケ

Japanese croquettes of mashed potato or white sauce with meat, breaded and deep-fried.

🇳🇿New Zealand

Kūmara

Sweet potato brought south by Polynesian voyagers, now grown mainly around Dargaville in three main varieties.

🇮🇱Israel

Latkes

לביבות

Grated potato and onion bound with egg and fried flat in oil for Hanukkah, eaten with apple sauce or sour cream.

🇱🇹Lithuania

Lithuanian Potato Pudding

Kugelis

A baked potato pudding made with grated potatoes, eggs, milk, and bacon, served with sour cream or spirgai.

🇪🇨Ambato, Ecuador

Llapingachos

Yapingachos

Ecuadorian potato patties stuffed with cheese, pan-fried until golden, served with peanut sauce, avocado, fried egg, and chorizo. An Ambato and Sierra classic

🇩🇿Algeria

Maaqouda

معقودة

Mashed potato patties seasoned with garlic, parsley and cumin, dipped in egg and deep-fried until crusted.

🇨🇭Switzerland

Maluns

Potatoes boiled the day before, grated and rubbed with flour into crumbs, then fried slowly in butter for the best part of an hour.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Migas de batata

Migas de batata is a Portuguese potato preparation from Alentejo, seasoned and cooked until the pieces hold a crisp or tender texture.

🇱🇾Libya

Mubattan Kusha

A Libyan stuffed potato dish: potato halves filled with spiced meat and baked until tender.

🇰🇪Kenya

Mukimo

A Kikuyu staple of mashed potatoes, greens, maize, and beans, a daily and festive classic

🇲🇪Montenegro

Musaka Od Krtola

Montenegrin musaka od krtola layers sliced potatoes and seasoned minced meat under a yogurt-and-egg topping.

🇬🇧Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

New Season Comber Potatoes

Comber Earlies

New Season Comber Potatoes is a protected collective food or drink identity with a defined regional specification.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Ocopa Arequipeña

Potatoes topped with a creamy sauce of ají amarillo, peanuts, huacatay, milk, and cheese. An Arequipa classic with Inca origins.

🇵🇪Peru

Pachamanca

Andean feast of meats, potatoes, sweet potatoes, fava beans, and corn cooked underground with hot stones. Honors Pachamama.

🇧🇴Cochabamba, Bolivia

Pampaku

A Cochabamba earth-oven feast of meat and tubers cooked underground over hot stones, using a Quechua pachamama-associated technique.