Canned Potatoes Recipe
By Ann
A super easy home canning recipe with step by step tutorial photographs on how to can potatoes. In under an hour you can preserve your harvest of potatoes to enjoy year-round.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 20 Minutes
Ingredients:
● 12 Medium Sized Potatoes
● 2 tsp Kosher Salt
● 4 cups Boiling Water + more for pressure canner
Directions:
● Wash your canning jars, lids, gaskets, screw tops in the dishwasher on sanitize, boiling water on the stove, or extremely hot sink water.
● While your canning jars are being cleaned; thoroughly wash your potatoes.
● Peel potatoes.
● Cut potatoes (fairly) uniformly into ½” cubes.
● Pack cut, raw potatoes tightly into clean, hot canning jars leaving about ½” of head space between the potatoes and the top of the jar.
● Add ½ teaspoon of salt to each jar and fill with boiling water, being careful to leave the same ½” of head space.
● Add lids and loosely tighten rings.
● Add jars to your pressure canner and fill 2 inches deep with water.
● Process at 15 pounds of pressure for 20 minutes.
● Tip: Store the jars without the screw top rings on so you can keep an eye on the seal of the lid and make sure it is not compromised during canning and storage.
● Makes 8 servings Canned Potatoes
Notes
● Pressure canners these days are much better than they used to be. This is the Pressure Canner used for this tutorial.
● Want to make quart jars? Remember there are two pints in a quart, so simply double this recipe to get 4 quarts of canned potatoes.
● In this tutorial, the rings were built into the lid. If you have the old lids + rings + bands, no problem, it works the same way.
● Make sure you sterilize all the parts of your canning jar: the jar itself, lids, bands. Some people just use REALLY hot sink water to get the jars good and hot and clean. You can also run the jars through the dishwasher instead to make sure they are clean and come out hot. And there is the old boil it all on the stove so they come out squeaky clean and remain hot.
Canned Potatoes Mise en Place:
● 4 Pint Canning Jars
● 4 Lids and Screw Tops
● Pressure Canner
● Peeler
● Cutting Board
● Knife
● Measuring Cup
● Measuring Spoons
● Funnel
Canned Potatoes Ingredients:
● 12 Medium Sized Potatoes
● 2 tsp Kosher Salt
● 4 cups Boiling Water + more for pressure canner
Canned Potatoes Directions:
● Wash your canning jars, lids, gaskets, screw tops in the dishwasher on sanitize, boiling water on the stove, or extremely hot sink water.
● While your canning jars are being cleaned; thoroughly wash your potatoes.
● Peel potatoes.
● Cut potatoes (fairly) uniformly into ½” cubes.
● Pack cut, raw potatoes tightly into clean, hot canning jars leaving about ½” of head space between the potatoes and the top of the canning jar.
● Add ½ teaspoon of salt to each jar and fill with boiling water, being careful to leave the same ½” of head space.
● Add lids and loosely tighten rings.
● Add jars to your pressure canner and fill 2 inches deep with water.
● Process at 15 pounds of pressure for 20 minutes.
● Tip: Store the jars without the screw top rings on so you can keep an eye on the seal of the lid and make sure it is not compromised during canning and storage.
● Makes 8 servings Canned Potatoes
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Amanda says
Hi. Thank you for this post. Years ago I use to can potatoes for 20 minutes. Recently, I started canning them again and all the recipes called for 40 minutes. I told my husband that I wonder why I can’t find a recipe that only cans for 20 minutes. So I’m thankful to know I wasn’t the only one that canned for 20 instead of 40. Second, does your altitude require 15 lbs of pressure or do you use 15 lbs to be able to can for 20 mins instead of 40 ?