7 new potato recipes to save you from the plain boiled spud

If you’re still waiting to try your first bit of okra, this might just be the dish to go with – okra and new potatoes make fantastic bedfellows, especially when married by Indian spices. This recipe is dead simple too; just par-boil your potatoes, cook out your spice paste, then add your potatoes and okra and cover until cooked! When you take the lid off, you’ll be hit by a waft of beautiful Indian aromas, and not a single piece of slimy, overcooked okra in sight.

Galton Blackiston is a master of doing simple things well and this recipe epitomises that, combining crisp, salty samphire, sweet broad beans and bacon to elevate the humble potato salad. Galton boils his potatoes with mint and lemon to inject some extra freshness to the dish, before topping the salad with a soft-poached egg.

No round-up of new potato recipes would be complete without a dish from Shaun Rankin – he is the undisputed authority on Jersey cuisine, and the Jersey Royal is one of our most celebrated potatoes. Shaun bakes his pancetta, sautés his potatoes and cooks onion en papillote, before quickly frying his squid and assembling the whole lot with a drizzle of maple syrup.

Pesto is another simple and very tasty way to enjoy your new potatoes. Urvashi Roe uses Pembrokeshire Early potatoes – an earthy, sweet variety native to Wales – and steams them to lock in all the flavour. Whilst those are on the go she whips up a pesto of sunflower seeds, garlic and nasturtium flowers, tossing the two together and topping with hard-boiled quail’s eggs.

Andy Waters’ satisfying potato salad is a brilliant summer side, perfect with a barbecue, but also alongside a lovely quiche or a savoury tart. He pairs his boiled new potatoes with chunks of gorgonzola and baby spinach, and drizzles over a classic balsamic vinegar and wholegrain mustard dressing. Proof that the boiled potato still has a place in our hearts.