Amour are round to oval, white-skinned potatoes with some pink around the eyes. Inside, they have off-white, waxy flesh. For boiling, salads. History Notes Amour Potatoes were developed in 1998.
Andante are oblong potatoes with smooth, buff skin and yellow flesh. They have around 13.5% starch content. Cooking Tips Andante Potatoes are good for salad.
Annabelle are longish, oval, medium-sized potatoes with light-yellow skin, shallow eyes and yellow flesh. Each plant will produce around 36 potatoes for a total weight of 4 pounds (1.8 kg.) Popular in Dutch supermarkets at the start of the 2000s. Cooking Tips These are waxy potatoes, and particularly good in salads. History Notes Annabelle Potatoes…
Anyas are a new breed of small, salad potatoes. They were initially developed at the Scottish Crop Research Institute near Dundee, Scotland. They are shaped like long, chubby thumbs with little pink dimples. These are so small, some people even grow them in pots. Suitable for boiling and for salads, like most waxy potatoes. Cooking…
Banana Potatoes have yellow skin and yellow, waxy flesh with good flavour. They are longish. Some describe the shape as “banana-shaped”, but it must have been a while since they’ve seen a banana. There will be 15 to 20 potatoes per plant. It is listed separately in some catalogues from Russian Banana Potato; in other…
Belle de Fontenay are long, medium to large-sized potatoes. They are sometimes slightly bent, almost kidney shaped. They have pale yellowish buff skin and waxy, finely-textured, creamy yellow flesh. They have a good flavour, often referred to as “buttery.” Some think they also taste hazelnuts. The skin is also very tasty. The plant delivers an…
A small, kidney-shaped potato with yellow skin and yellow flesh, developed from the Belle de Fontenay potato. Good for salads and all general waxy-potato uses. Currently (2004) available in the UK and Europe; in North America currently mostly available only to home gardeners. In Europe, largely grown in the Netherlands and France. Substitutes Other small…
Celine Potatoes have red skin and yellow flesh. These are waxy potatoes. Cooking Tips Good as salad potatoes. History Notes Celine Potatoes were developed in 1999.
These are long, oval waxy salad potatoes that are about half again as large as most other salad potatoes. They have a yellow, nutty tasting flesh covered by a light yellow skin. Charlotte Potato plants produce very early crops (they are classed in gardening terms as “second early.) There will be about 24 potatoes per…
Cherie are long potatoes with red or pink skin, and yellow, waxy flesh with good taste. Early harvest. Each plant will produce an average of 30 potatoes weighing in total about 3 1/2 pounds (1.5 kg) in total. History Notes Cherie Potatoes were introduced in 1997. Sources Gray, Jacquie. “Salad Potatoes” in RHS Plant Trials…
Chieftain are slightly oval, large-sized potatoes with smooth, bright red skin and waxy, white flesh with good flavour. The potatoes are uniformly sized. Good for potato salad. History Notes Chieftain Potatoes were developed in 1957 by an A.E. Kehr at Iowa State University from a cross between potatoes referred to as “La 1354” and “Ia…
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 1/2 cm) long, though some varieties can be up to 10 inches (25 cm)…
Mimi are small-sized, round potatoes with red skin and white flesh. These are waxy potatoes, good as salad potatoes. They have good flavour both warm or cold. Each plant will produce about 32 potatoes with a total weight of 1 3/4 pounds (.8 kg.) Early harvest. The plant and its tubers are small enough to…
Nicola Potatoes are oval and long, with smooth, pale yellow-buff skin and deep yellow flesh. These are waxy potatoes that hold their shape very well when cooked. They have very good flavour. Cooking Tips One of the best potatoes currently (early 2000s) around for salads. If you want to bake it, try it in a…
Pink Fir Apple Potatoes are long, knobbly potatoes with pink skin and yellow flesh. These are waxy potatoes, excellent as salad potatoes because they also have very good flavour. Each plant will produce about 43 potatoes, for a total weight of 3 1/4 pounds (1.5 kg.) Late harvest. Cooking Tips Cook whole, unpeeled. History Notes…
Princess are oval, medium-sized potatoes with yellow skin and pale yellow flesh. These are waxy potatoes, good for salads, even though the flesh becomes a bit floury when cooked. Early harvest. Each plant yields about 1.6 kg of potatoes, or about 37 potatoes. Storage Hints Stores well. History Notes Princess Potatoes were released in 2000….
Romano Potatoes are squat, round to oval potatoes with red skin and pale, softish yellow flesh that absorbs flavours well. The potato itself also has good flavour. The potato is waxy when harvested young, waxy enough to be used as a salad potato. When harvested later, it is floury and good for baking, okay for…
Roseval Potatoes are small, uniformly-sized, oval potatoes with thin, deep red skin, with yellow flesh with thin red streaks in it. They have a good, almost sweet taste whether served hot or cold. Early harvest. These are waxy potatoes. Cooking Tips Excellent for steaming and salads. Okay for baking. Not any good for mashing, makes…
Royal Kidney Potatoes are oval, with light yellow skin and flesh These are waxy potatoes, with good taste. Cooking Tips Good as a salad potato. History Notes Royal Kidney Potatoes were developed in 1899.
Salad Blue Potatoes have dark blue skin, blue flesh and mild flavour. They are halfway between waxy and floury. The longer they are stored, the more floury they become. The potato keeps its flesh colour when sautéed. Cooking Tips Good for chips (aka French Fries.) Okay mashed, but when mashed the colour is more the…
Salad potatoes are potatoes that are good for use in salads, as the term would imply. They will be potatoes with waxy flesh. These potatoes, when cooked, can be chunked or sliced and have the pieces remain intact, especially when mixed in a salad, and not break apart. The potatoes also need to have good…
Shelley Potatoes are very small potatoes, with light-buff skin, shallow eyes and white flesh. These are waxy potatoes that stay together well when cooked. They have good flavour warm or cold. The plant delivers high yields of uniformly-sized potatoes. Cooking Tips Good for salads. History Notes Shelley Potatos were developed in 2002, and released in…
Sirtema Potatoes are oval, with smooth yellowish skin and pale yellow flesh. Early harvest. They are marketed for direct to consumers sale. Cooking Tips Good as a salad potato. Storage Hints Stores poorly. History Notes Sirtema Potatoes were developed by Friese Maatschappij van Landbouw, in Metslawier , Netherlands, and J.C.Dorst from a cross between two…
Swift Potatoes are oval, with smooth yellow skins and white flesh. These are marketed as all-purpose potatoes, but they are particularly good as a salad potato. Early harvest. History Notes Osprey Potatoes were developed in 1994 by a Jack Dunnett of Caithness Potatoes Ltd, Scotland.