New potatoes do not need to be peeled

The thin potato peel can be eaten without hesitation
Finally, asparagus time again. The noble vegetables are as popular in this country as hardly any other. Often, delicious potatoes are served with the tasty sticks, as they perfectly supplement the asparagus with their special taste. In addition, the preparation of the small potatoes hardly work, because they do not even have to be peeled.

Fine taste is a good supplement to asparagus
Since the beginning of April there is again asparagus. For many hobby cooks, this means a real highlight in the year, because the popular bars are delicious and can be prepared in a variety of ways. In addition, they make a good contribution to a healthy diet, because asparagus has low calories and many vitamins. In the classic version, it often comes together with new potatoes on the plate, because they fit due to their fine taste particularly well to the noble vegetables. But that's not all, because the small tubers also make it easier to work in the kitchen. This reports according to the news agency "dpa" the magazine "Food & Drinks" in its current issue (5/2016). Accordingly, the new potatoes would not have to be peeled. Instead, it is sufficient if the fine shells brushed off and possibly green areas are removed.

If you like to eat asparagus new potatoes, you do not need to peel them. (Image: karepa / fotolia.com)

Less starch than normal table potatoes
Because the shell of the new potato is significantly thinner compared to the normal table potato. Therefore, it is not as durable as a mature tuber. The plants are set and harvested earlier, the first new potatoes are taken from the field in the middle of May. Since they do not ripen for so long, they also contain less starch than the potatoes harvested later in the year. However, with about 70 kilocalories per hundred grams, the nutritional content is about the same for both. (No)