Crispy potato waffles
Transform your leftover potato salad or mash into an impressive and delicious savoury waffle. Perfect for brunch, lunch, or snack!
Transform your leftover potato salad or mash into an impressive and delicious savoury waffle. Perfect for brunch, lunch, or snack!
With a potato crust replacing traditional pastry, it’s a hearty, gluten-free option that can easily be customised with whatever veggies or proteins you have on hand.
These deliciously seasoned snacks made from potato peels are the perfect way to reduce food waste while enjoying a crunchy treat everyone will love.
Leftover cooked veggies are the star in these tasty butter-free scones! Try it with mashed potatoes, pumpkin, kūmara, or carrots.
Here is a simple and easy recipe to turn those peels into delicous, fibre-filled chips from the team at Misfit Garden!
The beauty about this dish is that you can add any seasoning from your pantry, either fresh or dried herbs and spices. You can also choose your filling, anything you have spare in your fridge!
(Thank you Misfit Garden for this recipe)
For scones that stay moist, add mashed potatoes!
Turn leftover mashed potato into this classic Kiwi spiced fruit bun.
This potato, kumara and beef hash transforms leftover vegetables and meat into a delicious and versatile breakfast or brunch dish.
These cheesy potato bombs are a quick and tasty way to use up leftover mashed potato and breadcrumbs.
This is an easy way to use up leftover mashed potato and makes a quick afternoon snack for hungry teens.
A tasty and easy way to use up your leftover kūmara and potato peels.
Leave the skins on to make smashed potatoes - fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside.
Jazz up your leftover mashed potato by making these salmon mashed potato bites – perfect as a starter or finger food for a party.
What's different about this leek and potato soup? Unlike other recipes, this one uses the green leek leaves as well as the white part of the leek to give you more bang for your buck. It's an added bonus that you are reducing food waste the same time.
Brimming with leek greens and silverbeet stalks, this delicious Autumnal vegetable tart is the perfect zero-waste meal. The best thing is you can adapt the recipe to use whatever greens you have on hand.
Feed your family with this cheap and filling chili bean and potato bake. Recipe thanks to the Healthy Food Guide.
These crispy veggie fritters are a quick way to transform leftover vegetables.
These delicious sweetcorn croquettes make the perfect summer meal. You can add any leftover Christmas ham.
Al Brown shares his twist on the classic Kiwi fish pie using a kumara and potato mash for the topping.
Jimmy Boswell shares his recipe for potato top pie. Inspired by his mum, he uses leftover stew and tops it with dumplings made out of mashed potatoes.
Vanessa Baxter shares her recipe for a hearty chicken, apple and potato pot pie that the whole family will love.
These spiced potato filo parcels are similar to samosas and make a great starter or snack.
If you’re peeling potatoes, save the skins! They may look a lot like waste, but it is quick and easy to turn them into something delicious. Munch them down as a snack or pile them atop anything you like to add a bit of salt and crisp to a dish.
Colcannon cakes are a great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes.
These are a great way to use up leftover mashed potato and slightly dry bread. Any leftover cakes can be taken for lunch the following day.
You can use potatoes or kumara in this hearty meal that the family will love.
This recipe will feed 8-10 people so if you're cooking for less, make in two dishes and freeze the second dish.
Former MasterChef NZ contestant Hayley-Marie Bilton shares her great recipe to use up the leftovers from your roast.
Customise this recipe to include anything that needs to be used up. Vegetables and chopped leftover sausages are delicious additions.
Quick and substantial, you can include whatever vegetables and cheese you need to use up.
A tin of tuna and a few spuds combine to create these fun smashed potato and tuna croquettes.
These ‘mock sausages’ are a fun and unique way to use up leftover roast meat and vegetables. It’s always worth freezing leftover mashed potato to use in dishes like this – it saves time and money.
