What Are Potato flakes and How Can I Use Them?

Wondering what to do with potato flakes? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them — with 18 recipes to put them to work.

Recipes using potato flakes

There are 18 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Dalt's Baked Potato Soup

Dalt's baked potato soup with diced potatoes, slow-cooked onions, half and half, and a clever potato-flake thickening trick. Restaurant-style copycat with crispy bacon scattered on top.

KFC Mashed Potatoes

The mashed potatoes are served and made by mix. It comes in a bag just add water and butter. Many people just come to KFC to get these potatoes and gravy.

Meat & Potato Loaf

Slow cooker meat and potato loaf with ground beef, Italian sausage, and instant potato flakes, cooked low for 6-7 hours. A hands-off meatloaf with a clever cheesecloth lifting trick.

Swiss Cheese Potato Bread

Swiss cheese potato bread from the bread machine, with potato flakes for a soft, moist crumb and melted Swiss for nutty, savory flavor. Just add everything, press start, and bake a tender golden loaf.

Layered Zucchini Potato Salad

Layered zucchini potato salad: creamy mashed-potato base stacked with crisp-tender zucchini, corn, and cherry tomatoes. A cool, make-ahead potluck salad that travels well and holds its layers.

Halibut Delight

Beer-battered halibut coated in potato flakes and deep fried golden. Curry powder and marjoram in the batter add unexpected warmth to this crispy fish fry.

Joyce's Potato Wheat Bread (ABM)

Bread machine potato wheat bread with potato flakes, whole wheat flour, vital wheat gluten, and wheat germ. A soft, tender loaf with extra structure for the ABM.

Sun-dried Tomato Basil Dinner Rolls

Fresh baked dinner rolls with basil and sun-dried tomatoes, that can be made ahead, frozen and baked fresh when needed.

Fish Pie~

Classic British fish pie with poached white fish in a creamy parsley and egg sauce, topped with mashed potato and baked until golden. Simple, hearty comfort food.

Potato Rice Pancakes

Gluten-free potato rice pancakes made with brown rice flour and instant potato flakes. Serve with syrup for breakfast or gravy for a savory side. Light, tender, and wheat-free.

Honey Whole Wheat Rolls with Oats

Soft whole wheat rolls with potato flakes for pillowy texture, brushed with egg wash and topped with crunchy rolled oats. Honey-touched dough makes 16 pull-apart rolls.

Deep-Fried Salmon Croquettes with Potato Flakes

Deep-Fried Salmon Croquettes with Potato Flakes recipe

Hearty Potato Chive Bread

Soft potato chive bread made with instant potato flakes, buttermilk, and applesauce for moisture. A bread machine-friendly yeast loaf with savory herb flavor throughout.

Whole Wheat Potato Bread

Whole wheat potato bread for the bread machine combines white and whole wheat flours with instant potato flakes, honey, and applesauce for a soft, tender loaf with a sturdy crumb. Press start and walk away.

Meatless Shepherds Pie

Bulgar has the same kind of texture and looking as ground beef, without fat; lentils provide the protein, also there is lots of fibre in this recipe, definitely a nutritious and delicious vegetarian shepherd's pie!

Norwegian Almond Bars

Norwegian almond bars with an almond paste filling spiced with cardamom and cinnamon between buttery crumb layers. A Scandinavian cookie bar with a unique potato flake filling.

Traditional Hawaiian Sweet Bread Rounds

I made all Hawaiian food and this was with it. I loved smelling this cooking throughout the house, and it was divine. I froze two of the loaves, because I was told do not give it away, save it. Oh well will have to make double next time.

Houlihan's Baked Potato Soup

Houlihan's baked potato soup copycat with real baked russet potatoes, butter-onion roux, cream, and instant potato flakes for thickness. Topped with cheddar, bacon, and scallions.

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