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Home » Vegetables » Root Vegetables » Potatoes » Fingerling Potatoes

Fingerling Potatoes

Fingerling are long, slender, small potatoes.

There are many different varieties. The skin colour can be anything from buff to purple.

They are usually 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm) wide, and 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7 ½ cm) long, though some varieties can be up to 10 inches (25 cm) long.

They tend to be waxy, and good for salads and roasting.

They are expensive compared to other potatoes.

Substitutes

Salad potatoes, new potatoes

History Notes

Many potatoes were originally the size of what we now call “Fingerling Potatoes”, before centuries of cultivation selectively bred them to be larger. Now, potatoes this size are considered a novelty; they started to become fashionable in the food world towards the end of the 1990s.

Language Notes

Sometimes just referred to as “finger potatoes.”

Related entries

  • Amandine Fingerling Potatoes
  • Buttercream Fingerling Potatoes
  • Butterfinger Fingerling Potatoes
  • French Fingerling Potatoes
  • Ozette Potatoes
  • Purple Peruvian Potatoes
  • Ratte Potatoes
  • Red Thumb Fingerling Potatoes
  • Rose Finn Apple Potatoes
  • Ruby Crescent Fingerling Potatoes
  • Russian Banana Potatoes
This page first published: Jun 27, 2004 · Updated: Jun 17, 2020.

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