{"id":48,"date":"2021-01-18T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-01-18T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T03:52:00","slug":"homemade-potato-thickening-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/homemade-potato-thickening-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade potato thickening agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">Alternative to cornstarch<\/h1>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>H<\/strong>ave you&nbsp;ever tried to thicken your homemade sauce or needed some thickening agent to finish your dish?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>T<\/strong>imes are either you are out of cornstarch or couldn&#8217;t find organic corn starch (rare in grocery stores) to thicken your soup, sauce or usage for other thickening purposes.<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Potato to the rescue<\/h2>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>E<\/strong>ver consider potatoes for rescue?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>W<\/strong>ith potatoes; you can easily pick organic version from most grocery stores if you like; better thickening agent which keep on thickening as you cook (unlike cornstarch, waters down after it reaches a certain temperature); arguably, many has deemed a healthier choice (due to readily available in non GMO and certified organic crops for the potato); Best of all, you can cook potato dishes while using the broth as the thickening agent for your other dishes for the meal (one for two or many, win win!).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/#txtsearch\" style=\"font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 15px;\">Discover and save near me<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #686868; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\">Search coupons, menus and savings on your next take out, dine in, and meal plan in your local area at Whatmenu.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #686868; font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative to cornstarch Have you&nbsp;ever tried to thicken your homemade sauce or needed some thickening agent to finish your dish? Times are either you are out of cornstarch or couldn&#8217;t find organic corn starch (rare in grocery stores) to thicken your soup, sauce or usage for other thickening purposes. Potato to the rescue Ever consider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant.whatmenu.com\/diet\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}