diy essentials: homemade potato starch

How To Make diy essentials: homemade potato starch

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  You will need a large-hole grater, or you could use a food processor fitted with a grater attachment, plus two large bowls or pots.
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  Gather your Ingredients (mise en place).
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  Clean and peel your taters.
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  Grate the taters.
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  Place in a large pot or bowl, and pour in some warm water (just enough to cover).
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  Chef’s Note: If you grated the taters in a food processor, you will see a bunch of white stuff in the bottom of the bowl. That is starch. Swirl with a bit of warm water, and dump it into the pot with the taters.
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  Swirl the taters with the water, and then dump them through a strainer, with cheesecloth into another bowl.
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  Chef’s Note: If you have a strainer with a fine mesh, like a Chinoise, you will not need the cheesecloth.
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  You can leave the taters in the original pot, but use your hand to squeeze the taters to extract as much water as possible.
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  Put the pot with the taters down, and cover with more warm water, wait 5 minutes, and pour off the water in the other bowl with the starch. The starch will cling to the bottom of the pot.
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  Repeat this process of water, strainer, squeeze 3 or 4 more times, until the water is clean, and you can see the starch sitting nicely on the bottom of the second bowl.
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  Carefully pour off the last of the water; exposing the starch on the bottom of the bowl.
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  Scrape out onto a piece of parchment paper.
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  Allow to dry (I let it sit out overnight); however, you could use a dehydrator, or an oven on low heat.
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  Put the dry starch into a small grinder, and grind to a fine powder.
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  Place into a tightly sealed container, and store in a cool/dry place until needed.
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  PLATE/PRESENT
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  Use in any situation that calls for potato starch, or you could use it as a substitute for corn starch, or arrowroot powder. In this image I made potato pancakes using potato starch in place of flour. Very crispy. Oh, and I did use the grated potatoes from this recipe to make them. Enjoy
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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