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Coming up with inspiration for healthy but delicious and simple meals day after day can be challenging. But one vegetable that is very versatile and can be used in many different ways for a variety of meals is the humble potato.
What’s more, potatoes are cheap and it’s easy to batch cook with them, getting enough for more than one family meal in a week. And you can add simple kitchen ingredients to make a vibrant, tasty and healthy meal that everyone will love.
Are potatoes healthy?
Believe it or not, this is not a simple answer. Many people do consider potatoes to be healthy and it is uncontroversial to say that they can be part of a healthy and balanced diet.
But because they have a high starchy carbohydrate content, some scientists say you should limit your intake because the starchy carbs turn to sugar quickly during the digestive process, leading to spikes in blood sugar. This can lead in the short term to that familiar blood sugar crash you might recognise after meals and, in the long term, scientists say repeated blood sugar spikes over a long period of time can lead to inflammation and even to chronic disease.
A standard brown-skinned potato (also called a Russet potato and the sort you probably more commonly eat and cooked with) contains lots of nutrients, including vitamins C and B6, potassium, magnesium and sodium. It also contains some fibre.
But many of these nutrients are concentrated in the skin, so if you peel your potatoes before cooking and eating them, you are removing a significant proportion of fibre and other nutrients. Potatoes also contain antioxidants, which studies show can prevent certain types of chronic disease, like heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
This specific recipe idea comes from the Homemade Recipes YouTube channel, which is run by Emma, who says she “likes to experiment and prepare simple and quick recipes so that the food is easy, tasty and inexpensive”. For this recipe she uses potatoes, tuna and eggs as the main base, with lots of other delicious (but simple) ingredients added for flavour.
