potato
see also FOOD, COOK
- a hard white vegetable with a brown skin, that grows under the ground: potato (plural potatoes)(noun C/U), (informal) spud
a pound of potatoes ◎ potato soup ◎ new potatoes (= potatoes which are cooked when they are still small)
- the brown outer covering of a potato: (potato) skin (noun U)
- to remove the skin from a potato with a knife or other sharp instrument before cooking it: peel a potato; the pieces of potato skins that have been removed: potato peelings (noun plural)
Shall I peel the potatoes?
- a special instrument for peeling potatoes: potato peeler
- you can boil potatoes (= cook them in boiling water), bake them (= cook them in the oven with the skin on), roast them (= cook them in hot oil or fat, in an oven), or fry them (= cook them in a small amount of hot oil in a frying pan); adjectives: boiled, baked, roast, fried
Do you want boiled potatoes or baked?
- potatoes which have been cut into long thin pieces and fried in hot oil: chips (AmE French fries)
- very thin pieces of potato that are fried in oil, dried and sold in packets: crisps (AmE chips)
- to mix cooked potatoes (usually with butter and/or milk) until they are soft: mash potatoes; potatoes which have been mashed: mashed potatoes (noun plural), mash (noun U)
sausage and mash
- cold potatoes cut up and mixed with mayonnaise: potato salad (noun U)
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