Description
Potato starch is a very fine white powder starch, similar in texture to cornstarch. If you’re not very careful when working with and measuring potato starch, you can create quite a cloud in the kitchen! Potato Starch is made by removing the potato peel, made into a slurry and watery mix, then dehydrated to form Potato Starch.
Potato starch flour / potato starch has a neutral taste, and is an excellent choice for thickening sauces, gravies, stews, and soups. It also produces superior flour-free sponge cakes, for it absorbs and retains moisture to a far greater degree than wheat flour and produces cakes with a lighter texture.
Potato starch flour / potato starch is gluten-free (unlike some brands of potato flour, which may contain wheat).
A corn-free kosher ingredient, it is also typically used by Jewish cooks in place of flour and cornstarch during Passover.
The difference between Potato Flour and Potato Starch is that Potato Flour is made from the entire potato when Potato Starch is made only from starch of potato and lends a light, fluffy texture to baked goods.
