It’s hard to imagine a more popular vegetable than potatoes. It is used almost daily as a main side dish or ingredient in salads, first courses, and also as a filling for baked goods. When too many potatoes have been peeled and they remain unclaimed, and it’s a shame to throw away the product, you can keep them in certain conditions for some time. Let’s talk further about how to store peeled and already cooked potatoes.
Reasons for browning of peeled potatoes
A dark coating forms on peeled potatoes within 1 - 2 hours. This is due to the increased content of the enzymes tyrosine and tyrosinase in tubers. In the process of contact with oxygen, this colorless substance begins to oxidize, as it contains copper. As a result of this reaction, a new black-gray substance is formed.
After treatment with fertilizers containing nitrogen, peeled potatoes will spoil earlier than those grown on your own plot without the use of various chemicals.
A tuber that darkens after cleaning will not cause harm to health, but only loses its presentable appearance. Heat treatment leads to the destruction of tyrosinase. This is why boiled potatoes do not darken, just like raw ones.
How to prepare and freeze baby food
Making and freezing your baby's baby food will often cost you less than buying baby food at the grocery store. With this method, you will be sure that your child's food is fresh, natural and healthy, and does not contain preservatives. Use these instructions to prepare and freeze baby food.
Making and freezing your baby's baby food will often cost you less than buying baby food at the grocery store. With this method, you will be sure that your child's food is fresh, natural and healthy, and does not contain preservatives. Use these instructions to prepare and freeze baby food.
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General rules
You cannot cut potatoes in advance - this is done immediately before sending them to a hot frying pan or boiling water. In this way, you can preserve not only the appearance, but most of the nutrients.
There are several ways to store peeled potatoes. But first you need to decide how long it will take: hours, days, or a week. Based on this, they choose a method for storing peeled potatoes.
What can you make from the leftover puree?
From leftover mashed potatoes with the addition of minimal ingredients that you can always find in the refrigerator, you can prepare several simple but very tasty dishes. For example:
Cheese flatbreads.
You will need: one beaten egg, 3 tbsp. puree, 4 tbsp. flour, onion and cheese to taste.
Mix all ingredients in a dish. Divide the resulting mixture into small parts and give each part a rounded flat shape. Fry until golden brown.
To diversify the taste of the finished flatbread, serve it with sauce in the form of mayonnaise or sour cream.
Muffins with cheese
Required: 3 cups of mashed potatoes, a glass of grated cheese, 1-2 eggs, greens.
Mix mashed potatoes, eggs, herbs, 4/5 cheese, salt and pepper. Grease the molds with oil and place the prepared mixture in them. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove from oven and top with remaining cheese. Leave to bake for another 5 minutes, then remove and cool slightly before serving.
Cheese muffins made from mashed potatoes
Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1/3 cup sour cream, 1 cup grated cheese, 3 cups mashed potatoes, salt, pepper, herbs to taste.
Beat the eggs, add sour cream, add salt and pepper to taste and mix. Mix the resulting mixture with mashed potatoes and stir thoroughly. Grease baking molds with butter, fill them with the resulting dough and bake in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees. After 30-35 minutes, check the readiness of the cupcakes - they should be covered with a golden brown crust and easily fall away from the pan. Then let them cool in the pan for 5-7 minutes and transfer to plates. Can be served with various sauces.
Shelf life of puree in the refrigerator
In winter and summer, autumn and spring, potatoes are the main vegetable on our table. More than 1000 delicious and nutritious dishes can be prepared from this popular vegetable, containing starch, sugar, protein, vitamins, and mineral salts. There is no doubt about the taste and satiety of potatoes, but there is constant debate about the benefits of some dishes made from them, cooked in hot oil. Mashed potatoes are a treat whose taste and benefits will not be in doubt.
Potatoes are rich in phosphorus, potassium, vitamin C, sodium and magnesium. This vegetable is useful for people of all ages, with the exception of very young children (infants).
Many different dishes are made from potatoes, but the most common is mashed potatoes. This side dish is the most beloved and popular in our country. It’s difficult to name a dish that housewives prepare more often than puree. It is not only tasty and flexible, but also suitable as a side dish for any dish. Puree goes well not only with other vegetables, but also with meat and fish and will leave you feeling full for a long time. In our country, mashed potatoes can even compete with pasta and various cereals in popularity.
Storing peeled potatoes in water
After cleaning, the tubers are placed in a container with cold water. It is imperative that they are completely covered with liquid. This will make it possible to preserve the potatoes for 3 - 4 hours. During this time, the taste and structure of the vegetable will not change. If you leave the vegetable in water longer, the taste will change, and the beneficial substances contained in it will be lost.
- Storing peeled potatoes in cold water will last the longest if the container in which they are located is in the refrigerator. Then the vegetables can be preserved for 12 to 24 hours. The storage temperature of peeled potatoes in water should be 0°C -+6°C.
- Before cooking, the tubers are washed in cold running water. Especially if they were at room temperature and became soft and slippery.
- You can tell if a vegetable has gone bad by the bubbles on the surface of the water. Bubbles indicate that the fermentation process has begun, after which the product can no longer be consumed.
- The water in which the root vegetables are located must be periodically replaced with fresh water, and the potatoes themselves must be washed.
Storing fried potatoes
When asked how long potatoes can be stored after frying, any McDonald's employee will answer: 5–7 minutes. If after this time no one buys the finished potatoes, the slices are thrown away as they become tasteless. At home, of course, they don’t throw away food like that.
Potatoes fried in any way are best served within the first 5-7 minutes.
Regularly fried potatoes or fries should be served within 10–15 minutes after cooking, while still hot. A dish that has cooled down loses its taste, and reheating does not make it better. In addition, carcinogenic substances accumulate in fried potatoes.
Freezing peeled tubers
Potatoes without peels that are planned to be consumed in the near future can be frozen in a plastic bag or in a container wrapped in film. If you subsequently need to cook or fry it, defrosting is not necessary.
Deep freezing allows you to increase the storage time of peeled potatoes for a long period. To do this, the tubers are peeled, washed in cold water, cut and dried. Next, they are wrapped in film and frozen at the lowest possible temperature for which the refrigerator is designed.
Frozen potatoes can be stored for several months if you avoid re-freezing and distribute them in small portions.
How to store boiled and stewed potatoes
All dishes containing potatoes have a certain expiration date prescribed by sanitary standards. Public catering points are required to comply with storage rules:
- boiled potatoes,
- stewed,
- mashed potatoes,
- baked goods stuffed with potatoes.
Such dishes will remain suitable for consumption only for 18 hours. But when potato dishes are prepared at home, these standards are most often not observed.
- Storing boiled potatoes (with partial loss of taste) is possible for 8 hours without refrigeration and 24 - 36 hours in a cold place.
- Stewed potatoes should be immediately refrigerated, because the sauce that is present in this dish turns sour first.
- Potatoes boiled “in their jackets” can be stored for up to 24 hours at +20°C -+25°C or in the cold for up to 3 – 4 days.
HOW TO FREEZE PUREE FOR A BABY
Storing ready-made baby food frozen is very convenient - you will always have several options on hand. After preparing the puree, cool it to room temperature, and before freezing, place it in clean plastic jars with lids. It is most convenient if each jar contains one serving.
Don't forget to mark the date of preparation on each jar. You can also freeze the puree in an ice cube tray. When the mass is frozen, transfer the finished cubes into plastic bags, each with an inscription with the name of the dish and the date of preparation. Then seal the bags tightly and place them in the freezer.
The freezer temperature should be -18°C or lower to prevent bacterial growth. Use frozen food within 4-6 weeks.
To prepare the dish, take as many cubes as needed for one feeding (one cube is approximately 28 ml). You can defrost food in the refrigerator, heat it over low heat in a saucepan, stirring constantly, or in the microwave, covering the dish with a special cap or plate.
Stir the puree well after thawing and cool it to room temperature before giving it to your baby.
We wish you and your child to get the most out of your adventures in the world of cooking!
Storing ready-made baby food frozen is very convenient - you will always have several options on hand. After preparing the puree, cool it to room temperature, and before freezing, place it in clean plastic jars with lids. It is most convenient if each jar contains one serving.
Storing mashed potatoes
- How long to store puree in the refrigerator depends on its type. When raw egg yolks have been added to it, this dish cannot be stored even at low temperatures. Since raw chicken eggs are excellent flora for the proliferation of various bacteria.
- Mashed potatoes to which sour cream has been added cannot be kept at room temperature categorically. This dish will turn sour within the next 2 - 3 hours.
The shelf life of mashed potatoes in the refrigerator is 24 hours.
- Mashed potatoes with butter and boiled milk can be stored the longest. It can be eaten within 2 - 3 days from the moment of preparation. But after 48 hours this dish loses its taste.
- If the shelf life of boiled potatoes in the refrigerator exceeded 1 day, they should be used as part of dishes that undergo heat treatment (casseroles, dumplings, pies).
Potato dishes are most in demand in the daily diet of every person. But in order to make the most of this vegetable, it is advisable to know how to store peeled potatoes, as well as the rest of the already boiled product.
Homemade baby vegetable puree: how long does it last in the refrigerator?
To avoid troubles associated with your child eating spoiled puree, you should adhere to several rules:
- Store closed jars of puree in a dry, dark place. A closet or pantry is ideal for this. Although packaging should protect the product from spoilage, high temperatures will encourage the growth of bacteria.
- Turn the jars over to the side where the expiration date is indicated. Place containers that will expire faster in advance and use them first.
- Store opened jars in the refrigerator for no more than 24 hours with the lid tightly closed.
- Do not store contaminated containers. If the child was fed directly from a jar, it is better to throw it away. Microorganisms from saliva will get into the food, their growth will begin, which will make the puree unsuitable for feeding a baby.
- Make sure that open jars are not left at room temperature for more than 2 hours. microorganisms multiply quickly in heat and the product will become unsafe for the child.
- Never feed your baby purees that have expired, as this can lead to poisoning and illness.
The issue of storing baby food must be approached responsibly. These simple recommendations will allow you to save the product until your baby's next feeding. Do not forget that sometimes it is difficult to recognize a spoiled product, since it can retain its color and smell throughout its shelf life. Take care of your baby’s health, because no one will take care of this better than a mother.
Here's how fruit purees are made: fresh or slightly boiled.
And is it really impossible to store self-prepared puree)) in the refrigerator for at least a day? Even jarred ones can be stored in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
With my eldest I gave everything in a can, but now finances don’t allow it
You can also use pumpkin, it’s sweetish, I really like it.
I normally store it for 2 days, do it every other day
I just posted a question on Easy_Cooks about how long you can store a self-prepared jar of zucchini puree. collecting comments
White cabbage went well with us.
I made vegetable purees for 3 days, everything stored perfectly.
Have you been storing complementary foods this way since the very beginning?
why not? Can
When minced, and especially ground, all sorts of nasty things multiply faster: (for the same reason, raw minced meat has a shorter shelf life than a large piece of meat.
You can also freeze and cook once a week)
Plus. I froze pureed boiled vegetables.
All types of cabbage will help you, green beans, corn (I take frozen), lentils. Cucumbers, but is it more to chew than to eat?
They also sell spinach in cans, I think, but we haven’t tried it.
green peas and onions can also be added to purees
stalk of celery for flavor
I do it for 2 days, everything is ok. I cook it, grind it with a blender, put it into portioned containers, close the lid and put it in the refrigerator on the top shelf. I throw away the uneaten portion or finish it and don’t store it.
What's not to like about beans? My son has on the menu what you listed, plus white cabbage, green beans, green peas, spinach, Brussels sprouts, bell peppers, tomatoes (I add a little of the last two).
Is today Puree Day? Then I’ll ask here too?
What is the deep meaning in preparing homogenized puree and feeding it to a child? Moreover, you write “already tired.”
Well, there are different cases, for example, your zucchini and pumpkin are ripe, what’s the point of selling to grandma’s basket and Heinz? It’s better to “wind up.” Or like my friend’s daughter, at 2.5 years old she doesn’t recognize jars, but even the smallest pieces-lumps make her vomit, she has high pressure, like it or not, you’ll wrap yourself up and cook and blend.
Canned food can be stored precisely because it was antiseptically packaged - that is, in theory, there should not be a single harmful microorganism there. Moreover, you can only store the portion that is not directly consumed as food (that is, put aside as much as needed with a clean spoon, and immediately put the rest in the refrigerator).
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The finer the chopped dish, the shorter it is stored. So the safest thing is to cook the vegetables for two days and blend right before eating. Second for safety: boil the crushed food before storing.
I make it for two days and freeze the rest in an ice cube tray. Frozen can last for at least several months; I defrost it either in the refrigerator overnight, or immediately in the microwave, if necessary.
I give the maximum on the second day, I didn’t try it on the third, but on the second there were no problems. At the same time, I have a mixture of meat and vegetables there, prepared in a blender steamer. I never sterilize jars
pumpkin, cauliflower?
I easily prepare vegetables for 2-3 days, make them into mixes (zucchini, cauliflower or broccoli, potatoes, carrots), I make fruit purees every day in a blender
Applesauce is great to make in a slow cooker. Remove the cores and peels, cut the apples into pieces and simmer for an hour. It can also be done in the oven. Then you roll it into jars. Stored all winter. Better than Frutonyan.
When I hear the word “sealing,” only 3-liter jars come to mind))))
I make it for two days, pour it hot into jars, and at the beginning, when I ate little, I generally packed it for a week, but hot and in sterilized jars. I make fruit puree for porridge in a double boiler, then in a blender, and then I give it fresh pieces to eat.
What jars did you use?
If you have an immersion blender with a steel leg, then it is quite possible to grind the hot stuff directly and leave some for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, especially since you will still warm it up before using it. But I did it differently. In a couple of autumn nights, my husband and I prepared a couple of amazingly sweet pumpkins donated by a neighbor in the country and almost 10 kg of our apples.
Everything was peeled, cut into pieces and frozen in bags. It’s a pity the homemade zucchini wasted, did you think of it too late? And it’s very convenient. You take out the required number of pieces, immediately put them in a special glass bowl for the microwave, cover the top with a lid and microwave at full power for 10 minutes.
Then you blend it, add cold boiled water to reduce the temperature and you can serve it right away. It was noticed that the pumpkin tastes better when baked in the oven, so I baked part of the pumpkin (by the way, I advise you to line it with foil so as not to have to wash the baking sheet for a long time), cooled it, unblended it and put it in ice molds, when it was frozen I took it out of the molds and transferred it in packages. You can make any puree this way. Then microwave for 1-2 minutes and you are ready to eat.
we started with cans, but switched to homemade cans around eight or nine months due to allergies
here I am too, in Avent cups, very convenient and no problems. I froze the broth and the meat so that the soup could be assembled later.
ICP is a separate topic, although it seems that not everything is clear there either.
I don’t understand why healthy babies are first purposefully put on pureed foods, and then struggle with switching to pieces: - it’s easier to feed them from your plate
However, with exactly the same reasoning, I didn’t accustom my child to the pacifier, so as not to have to worry about weaning =)
You're bothering yourself. My daughter, for example, happily ate purees until she was a year old, but from the age of 6 months I gave her everything in pieces (dried bread, an apple, baby cookies, cucumber and whatever she asked for). By the age of one, the child ate everything from the common table, but until she was 2 years old, I beat her soup with a blender, because this way she ate more, and in ordinary soup she began to catch something with her hands, play, and not eat.
Maybe ? It’s just that several questions in a row about pureeing food blew my mind. They write about the difficulties of switching to pieces and “weaning off the pacifier” here in “babies” every week.
Lucky you))) My daughter is a picky eater and doesn’t eat everything.
And by the way, about complementary feeding, at 4 months it is introduced by those who are on IV (we, for example). My daughter just started gaining weight wildly on formula when she was 4 months old, I introduced vegetables, everything returned to normal.
what if there is salt-pepper-pringles on your plate?))) What if the baby is 6 months old, and there is dry buckwheat on the plate? What if the baby is 4 months old, he is IV, and it’s time for him to introduce complementary foods? Then, two allergists and one gastroenterologist told us to eat cans as the first complementary foods, because there is at least some quality control, and my daughter is allergic.
It is quite possible to give a little salt and seasonings to the child. But why should there be wild quantities of salt-pepper-Pringles on your plate? ? and how to teach a child to eat healthy food if the parents don’t eat that way themselves?
Yes, my little one has been sneaking buckwheat from me for six months. That is, just boiled, I was still upset that it was difficult to hold it with my fingers. The child is also allergic, but if the whole family constantly tries to eat more “healthily”, then her restrictions in life are practically not noticeable.
I also don’t really understand why complementary feeding is needed at 4 months. Well, perhaps drying as teethers?
I don’t know why artificial babies are given artificial supplements at 4 months, but this is a fact. They start giving them meat, etc. earlier.
No, well, for example, I won’t give up Pringles no matter what))) And my daughter has so many food restrictions (dairy, eggs, chicken, beef, lamb) that we are definitely not destined to eat together, although with her appearance I began to eat turkey , and a rabbit, but still not on a permanent basis. And if I had fed from my plate out of stupidity, I could have broken a lot of wood, my daughter’s whole face and eyes are hurt just from contact with an egg, for example, and I could have gotten Quincke’s edema.
Regarding buckwheat, if you follow the rules, can a six-month-old really eat 100 grams of regular buckwheat and not choke? Or do you insist that there should be 99% of the HF, and the rest should be sniffed?
I remember exactly that at 8 months the child stole and devoured a rather large cheese sandwich from me. I also carried a fair amount of buckwheat, but I’m generally silent about all sorts of cabbage/cucumbers.
Milk also deserves more careful testing. My daughter spills or vomits from most brands of milk, but she drinks three of them calmly. Who knows what they add to milk:-
Unfortunately, this is not a matter of antibiotics. My daughter is already 2.8 years old, she has a real polyvalent allergy. ?
- Shelf life: 2 days
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- Shelf life in the refrigerator: 2 days
- Freezer life: 60 days
| Wash and dry the apples. Peel the apples and remove the seeds. Cut the apples into small thin slices. |
| Place the saucepan with the chopped apples over very low heat and heat until the juices release. Keep the apples on the fire for 40-45 minutes, stirring constantly so as not to burn. The apples should cook well and become soft. |
| Remove the pan with apples from the heat and mash them well with a wooden masher to make a homogeneous puree. Then put the apple puree back on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes. |
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