Strong demand for New Zealand fries in Australia and Thailand mean that September exports were at their highest monthly total since May 2015. During the month 7,197 tonnes were shipped, up 27.8%, with a 12.1% increase in annual exports to 64 462 tonnes, the highest annual total since the end of 2014. The average price…
Serves 4 Prep Time 20 Minutes Cook Time 15 Minutes Ingredients 700g small New Zealand potatoes 300g frozen peas or baby peas 2 rashers bacon, streaky bunch fresh mint leaves, half chopped 1/3 cup aioli or mayonnaise 1/3 cup natural yoghurt 1 lemon, juice and zest Salt and pepper Method Bring a large saucepan of salted water to…
Download and print your own copy of the recipe. Scrumptious potato skins with skordalia – which is a garlic potato dip – served with healthy vege sticks. Serves 6 Prep Time 20 Minutes Cook Time 45 Minutes Ingredients 6 large floury potatoes e.g Agria, Ilam Hardy (likely to be labelled as baking/roasting). 2 tbsp olive oil …
Download and print your own copy of the recipe. A fabulous recipe for herb-roasted Hasselback potatoes using general purpose, NZ-grown potatoes like Desiree, Rua or Moonlight varieties. Serves 4-6 Prep Time 10 Minutes Cook Time 40 Minutes Ingredients 8 medium general-purpose NZ potatoes (eg. Desiree, Rua, Moonlight) 6 sprigs fresh thyme or rosemary 8 cloves garlic ¼…
Download and print your own copy of the recipe. A lovely Thai chicken potato curry using waxy NZ potatoes e.g. Nadine, Draga or Frisia. Serves 4-6 Prep Time 20 Minutes Cook Time 25-30 Minutes Ingredients 500g medium waxy potatoes e.g. Nadine or Perlas 1 Tablespoon oil 1 onion 3 Tablespoon Thai green curry paste (We love Ayam)…
This November Potatoes New Zealand is celebrating the humble potato with a celebration of the new potato season. The November Means New Potatoes campaign kicked off with a launch in Auckland on Thursday 26th October. Food writers, media and industry leaders were invited to meet with growers to celebrate new season potatoes. A roomful of…
Reclaim have approximately 300 small crates and 80 large crates for sale. Price for bulk purchase (more than 20) is $7.50 for the small and $10 for the large. Dimensions are: Small external 1670 x 1100 x 760 high. Internal 1560 x 1000 x 590 high (0.92m3) Large external 1670 x 1100 x 1100 high….
In her latest blog, exclusively for Potatoes New Zealand, leading Foodwriter Niki Bezzant discusses how the recent ‘Chipocalypse’ highlighted the important are of food security… I’m writing this in the wake of the most potato coverage we’ve seen in the media in years. It’s all because of, we were told, a pending crisis in potato…
Expert opinion in Belgium is that a ware harvest of 5 million tonnes is probable this year. The planted area, according to the regional CAP declarations, is a provisional 96,280 hectares and trial liftings have shown yields of 50 tonnes/hectare for Bintje and even more for Fontane and Innovator. These yields are high but are…
On Saturday, 14 October Angela Meyer visited her local Pak ’n’ Save to purchase groceries. As she leant forward to grab her favourite pack of potato crisps there was a void; and in its place a sign which read “Due to a Nationwide Potato shortage, we will be having trouble stock Potato Chips. This will…
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