Comments on: Purple Potato Salad

By: Gayle

Gayle — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:44:13 +0000

Made purple potatoes today and the water does turn green! They were delicious. I’m trying to figure out the chemistry of this, but it’s certainly NOT because the potatoes were bad.

By: jerry

jerry — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:53:56 +0000

i planeted some purple ,they loook like they are growing tomatoes on top of the plants

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:04:25 +0000

Wow I have never heard of water turning green from purple potatoes. Its not normal. The water turns a little blue/gray. The first thing that I though of when I read this was the random odd Green potato chip that can be sometimes found in a bag of chips. From the Straight Dope: Are green potato chips poisonous? Just to clarify: green potatoes result from excessive exposure to light, whether natural or artificial. The green itself is chlorophyll, which is not harmful. However, the same process of photosynthesis that produces chlorophyll also produces compounds called glycoalkaloids, such as solanine, that are toxic in large amounts./em>

By: Brooklynn

Brooklynn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:02:57 +0000

I boiled some purple potatoes last night and the water turned bright green. Is this normal? I didn’t eat them because it was so odd.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:28:45 +0000

pickled beets in a potato salad sounds great, I think your on to something.

By: joe dakins

joe dakins — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:57:37 +0000

The last purple potato salad I made had pickled beets mashed in. I just made a simple potato salad recipe, mashed it. Added four/five pickled beets and pickle juice for color, mashed it once again. Add little sugar to tase, and your done.

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By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:10:40 +0000

Tony, Yes when boiling, the purple potatoes go from fork tender to mush very fast. I guess if you screw them up for the salad just make them into a mash!

By: Tony.

Tony. — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:54:04 +0000

I am growing the purple potatoes for the first time this year.
I found out that if you cut them up in quarters and, boil them up too long, they will ‘mash’ themselves.(If thats what you want). With a little butter, milk and salt, taste very good.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:26:04 +0000

That looks great. Here it’s hit and miss if we can find purple potatoes in stock. Fun to serve to (bulging eyed, fork-poking) guests tho.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:51:31 +0000

If you can’t find purple potatoes you could use all red ones but somewhere out there a little purple spud wants to go home to your kitchen. I think what really makes this salad is the dressing though.

By: Valli

Valli — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:16:18 +0000

This salad looks exceptional!! I have been looking for purple potatoes at the farmers market this year, but, no luck so far.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:55:01 +0000

Andy, I’ve never seen (except in pics) or eaten the purple potato and I can’t wait to try it. Potato salad is a favourite of mine.

By: meeso

meeso — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:33:52 +0000

Hey…this is a really awesome looking potato salad! Will have to find some purple potato’s and try this.

By: JennDZ - The Leftover Queen

JennDZ - The Leftover Queen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:09:28 +0000

Aren’t purple potatoes just wonderful?! So beautiful! Nice job with the salad, the colors look wonderful!