Anyone for sausages with pink mash or a summer salad with purple potatoes?

The exotic spud offerings are on the menu thanks to an adventurous grower.

The Potato Shop in Small Hythe Road, Tenterden, is bringing colour to the dinner table with its super-bright spuds.

It sells more than 20 varieties of potatoes picked from the Morghew Park Estate – and a growing interest in rainbow-coloured spuds has meant the shop has launched its own website to cater for demand.

The vitelotte potato, which has a chestnut flavour is described as having “an amazing purple skin and flesh” on the website that also states: “Vitelotte are full of anti-oxidants, low in sugar, salt and fat free – what is there not to like about these little blue beauties!?”

Nicki Crawley, The Potato Shop’s manager , sells her specialist spuds to restaurants up and down the country via Covent Garden market.

Speaking of the vibrant Vitelotte, she said: “They are pretty unusual and are not grown commercially in the UK. Potatoes originally came from South Amercia and were all different colours but they have been Westernised so people are used to seeing them all round and white.”

She also sells the Highland Burgandy spud that has a red flesh and skin, which will make “pink, fluffy mash or pink roasties, as well as the long and pink-coloured Pink Fir Apple.

Graham Garrett, chef and owner of the Michelin starred The West House, in Biddenden High Street, is full of praise for the pink-hued potato on the website.

He said: “For flavour I think it’s hard to beat the Pink fir apple. It looks a bit weird, more like a Jerusalem artichoke. Served warm, tossed in the best olive oil you can afford with a bit of crunchy sea salt and a scattering of fresh herbs is a meal in its own right.”

The Potato Shop sells a 5kg mixed exotic potato selection box, complete with recipes, with 1kg each of Vitelotte, Shetland Black, Highland Burgundy Red, Mayan Gold and Pink Fir Apple, for £15, for those wanting to sample a selection of the super spuds.

For more information visit www.thepotatoshop.com