Ruby Crescent Potato

Their flavor is nuttier and less sweet than other red potatoes.

Ruby crescent potato.

Varieties include rose finn apple red thumb french and ruby crescent. Melissa s organic ruby crescent fingerlings are best roasted but are also delicious boiled for potato salad or baked and topped with sour cream. Fingerling banana and golden very good yielder keeper very firm yellowish flesh. Their slender shape speeds cooking time.

The ruby crescent potato is truly the classic european fingerling with its slender shape rose colored skin smooth firm yellow flesh waxy moist consistent texture and distinct eyes. The skin is thin and smooth with a dusty rose hue and there are a few medium set eyes scattered across the surface creating a knobby bumpy feel. Ruby crescent vigorous great tasting red fingerling. The pigments in these potatoes provide flavonoids and carotenoids that promote good health.

These fingerlings are best roasted. Large fingerling with rose colored skin and yellow flesh. Organic potato varieties from bridges organic produce. Prepare as you would any baby or specialty potato.

Fingerlings ruby crescent european potato with a rosy color exterior and firm yellow flesh. Ruby crescent fingerling potatoes are small in size and are slender and slightly curved in shape averaging 6 7 centimeters in length. Melissa s organic fingerlings potatoes should be kept in refrigeration at temperatures from 45 55 degrees f. Excellent flavour good for baking boiled our favorite for mashed potatoes.

A good potato to puree and equally successful when roasted. Ruby crescents are a unique addition to your table. This savory delight is flavored as a puree to thicken soups sauces and gravies but also makes a delectable roasting potato. About a quarter of the tubers produced by the vigorous plants have knobby short growths on the main tuber.

Like other red potatoes red fingerling varieties hold their shape well and are low in starch. Ruby skinned and yellow fleshed tubers are 1 inch by 3 inches and often knobby which makes cleaning more difficult. Ruby crescent fingerling potatoes should be kept in refrigeration at temperatures from 45 55 degrees f. The kind of potatoes that may be the healthiest are those with darker colored flesh such as the purple viking yukon gold and ruby crescent.

One of the best ways to utilize fingerlings is to simply roast them whole. Ruby crescent fingerlings are characterized by their pink skin deep yellow flesh oblong knobby shape and a slightly sweet earthy flavor. Good yields and keeper.