Southern Stewed Potatoes (2024)

I’m a straight Louisiana Southern Lady. My great grandmother/Granny/my mom 🙏 G-R-A-O-T-S 🙏
Each called them creamy milk taters and I learned how to cook everything straight from garden grown and scratch homemade cooking 😋. Still today, I cook everything from scratch and no substitutes added! I cooked steeped cabbage fried bacon and skillet fried sweet cornbread with a side of oven roasted baby taters tossed in a garlic mixed lemon sauce, I make from fresh grown herbs and lemons with my crushed garlic cloves pinch of salt and instead of black pepper I add in my garlic pepper it’s very easy to make and if you like lemon pepper garlic flavored potatoes, you’ll 💕 this 😋. I love to help life outdoors grow and talk about having something bountiful everyday for your nourishment and healthier 💯🙏.
I make these same way. Only thing different, I do, is… I add a finely diced white or yellow 🧅 just half diced really fine I add it when the potatoes are ready for the milk etc., when you add onions bell peps/any flavoring herb/ingredients, you want to add these types of ingredients when your food will be done about 15m ahead 👍 same for anything that is granules like salt’s peppers any powder forms. By waiting and adding everything at the 15m before completion this keeps and brings every flavor to the top and throughout the entire dish 🤓!! I don’t add bacon in this dish. instead, I deep fry southern chicken and use some of the chicken crust on top when I put the food on the plate and pull some chicken and add in the creamed milk taters with either a couple of slices of my skillet fried cornbread or I’ll dough roll and bake some southern butter biscuits with honey drizzle on top. Try you never know until you try something new 👍

I was not sure how this was going to turn out and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out great! I added the bacon fat and onion flakes…added Wondra to thicken it up…great flavor and will definitely make again.

I just learned about this from my 92 year old Aunt. She said she made them every week. My uncle liked sugar in everything so she said she had to add a little sugar and some mustard she said. IDK about ask that but she said it was delicious. I’m going to have to try it.

My mom made this but used selfrising cornmeal, loved it that way

I never knew til I was almost grown that arsh was the same thing as Irish.

My mom was raised in TN, but raised us kids in GA. This is her “special” Thanksgiving potatoes. Makes them every year for it. She calls them “Mammy(ma’am-me) taters”. She doesn’t add the bacon grease or the onion flakes tho. Everyone I know who eats them…love, love, loves them.

Can you use unpeeled baby gold potatoes? If so I will be making tomorrow.

Tennessee here. I grew up with my grandparents, both born in the 1920s. We didn’t have a lot of money, so veggies, usually grown in the garden, were the main dish alot. Stewed taters were a staple with my grandfather’s cast iron cornbread. Lots of veggies, and the occasional salmon patties. Love this recipe

I am from the eastern part of VA. My mother made this into soup with cornstarch as the thickener. She added dried beef in the glass jar. I am allergic to onions but I can eat leeks. I add cream and garlic. No way I am evah putting cheese in it.
The one recipe I can’t find is stewed tomatoes with Ritz crackers. Anybody know ?

I use some french onion dip in mine, about a third to half a cup and some cubed ham or bacon crumbled

My grandmothers, mother and mother-in-law called them “thicken” potatoes. We’re all from Northern Mississippi if that helps explain, 😁.

My Grandmother made this often, but never gave me the recipe! Thanks!

I grew up on stewed potatoes and love them. I haven’t had them since my mom passed away 20 years ago. Going to make these tonight! Thank you for sharing your recipe

I am in NC and this is a child favorite, raised my kids on it and cook them still today. Potatoes are a great way to save money feeding a family. The longer the potato’s cook, the more the potatoes break down and the starch will release, the liquid reduces and thicken the water the potatoes are being cooked in so a few potatoes went far for this side dish. I never used thickening. Great side dish to start and do other stuff. It doesn’t create a fuss. It should be the first thing you start when fixing a meal. This time of the year was the best time for soupy potatoes made out of the new potatoes straight out of the ground. Sometimes Momma would add a few small green peas at the end. The perfect meal is to make these and cook a mess of fresh green beans, cornbread and cantaloupe. My daddy loved to crumble up cornbread and pour soupy potatoes over it.

Try chopping up 3- 4 hard boiled eggs in when done, also The Potatoes with the chopped-up eggs in it GO’S GREAT WITH SALMON PATTIES & Cook with pork Baby Lima bean

My Grandmother called them “Soupy Taters”. Missing her today. Thought I would make some, but never thought about using bacon grease though 😊

Besides just eating the potatoes by themselves, is there any other side dishes you can make to go along with the potatoes?

Can you add cheese?

My Daddy was raised putting them over rice once prepared and that’s how we’ve always ate them. …so good

Im going to try this when cold weather gets here next week,It looks great

I had NEVER heard of stewed potatoes til my hubby asked me to make them one day and u thought he had lost his mind. I found this recipe and now I’m the best wife ever. Thanks so MUCH

My mother made these stewed potatoes and she also would add southern roll dumplings occasionally. They were even better with the dumplings.

We called the “buttered potatoes. But we didnt add the flour. Just a lot of butter. Momma cooked the potatoes until they were tender, but not quite mushy, then drained out most, but not all of, the water. Then added the seasonings. Let it sit a few min to thicken, then YUM!

I was so excited to find this recipe. My Mama Mary Moss Gunn from Blacksburg, SC knew Ms. Peggy (may have been related). I’m sure that I went to her house when I was a little girl.

My grandma also called them “arsh” potatoes. She just boiled her potatoes and then mixed half a cup of water with flour, salt and pepper and stirred it into the pot of boiling potatoes. Best eatin’ ever!!

I can’t look at your cooked dishes without starving. I will be fixing these potatoes TODAY.
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Absolutely love these! Reminds me of my childhood and my kids love them too

Georgia girl here. My mama always served this with purple hull or black-eyed peas and cornbread and some kind of meat – usually fried pork chops. I’m making a pot today!

I’m making some today

I have made this recipe before and it turned out delicious. .My family ask for again today for lunch. We like as kinda of bowl of soup with buttermilk corn bread. Yum

I’m out of flour and no way to store, how can I thickenvthem ,already stared on stove

Tasty. Not quite like my Nanny’s…but good!! Getting them to thicken was a little tricky. Delicious tho 😋

Can you use something for onion flakes?

Wow! This took me back. My mom was raised in Buford, Georgia, and this was a meal we had often, especially in the winter. Served with her “from scratch” Southern cornbread made with stone ground corn meal and buttermilk in her iron skillet.

Absolutely loved when my grandma made a big pot of stewed taters and cornbread. Awesome childhood memories.

Lord yes! Grew up on stewed tators & we still eat ’em. Never are any thrown out at our house. We fix a a big ol’ pot full & what’s left (if any) we heat ’em up the next day. I cook ’em but Mama’s is always better, if course!

My dad was a mechanic and my mom worked in the sewing room. She would make this & it was delicious ~! We called it “thicken potatoes “.

Just like Momma used to make

Delicious! I remember my mother making these often. They turned out great,! Thank you for sharing.

Replace the flour with instant potatoes it’s easier to control the water and milk and taste

How many calories per serving?

I grew up eating this without the bacon grease. My mom called it potato gravy and we always ate cornbread with it. We are from southwest Virginia. It’s best using new potatoes.

This is REAL good stuff. A little heavy on the hips, but when people used to physically work hard, it would fill you up and is a great winter comfort food.
Gaylene from Olde Raleigh,NC

I grew up in Kansas and my mom made this many times. We had very little money and this fed 7 people for pennies. So good

Okay. This is going to sound very strange to you…
I have lives in the South all my life. I was born in Georgia– Atlanta to be exact. Mostly raised around Augusta. Been in Georgia for 61 years at last count (That was in November of this year). I can count the number of times I have been farther north than North Carolina on one hand– and, I think have a thumb left over. Farthest west I have ever been is Texas. Except for about three months I was in Mexico, I have spent every waking and/or sleeping moment in the Deep South.
And somehow, I have never heard of this dish. My momma never cooked it that I can remember, neither did Grandmother, no aunts or uncles or neighbors or… just nobody.
I mean, there were potatoes. Of course there were potatoes. Boiled and buttered, baked, fried, mashed, and the soup mentioned above– but this stewed potato dish? I, until today, had never heard of it at all. (And before you ask, yes, both Momma and Grandmother were Southern ladies who somehow never prepared this. The whole family is south of the MD line since the time we came over from England and Scotland, well over a century and a half ago.)
I feel like someone who grew up in Japan who never saw rice, or in France who never saw cheese. It’s weird…

Love it, but where I’m from in the deep south, it’s purple hull peas.

Just like Momma made every Saturday for lunch in Gaffney, SC!

Yep this is definitly what I grew up on in Tennessee and still make today-Stewed potatoes. Great recipe! Served tonight with a pot of mixed greens, black eyed peas, corn bread and fried pork chops. Perfect for New Years in the south!

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who puts mayonnaise in theirs!!

We always called this stewed potatoes. Let diced potatoes cook in water until soft with butter or bacon drippings, mixed flour and milk or cream until all lumps were gone, stirred that into the potatoes until thickened–Yumm, makes me so hungry for them!