Recipe: Yummy Potato cakes

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Potato cakes Make sure to check out my Vegan potato cakes with rice and carrot, they're to die for!. The long-awaited summer is finally here! And so is the long summer school vacation. You can cook Potato cakes using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Potato cakes

  1. Prepare of Leftover mashed potatoes.
  2. It's of Shredded cheese of choice.
  3. You need 2 of Eggs.
  4. You need of Flour.
  5. It's of Bread crumbs.
  6. You need of Oil for frying.
  7. You need of Bacon crumbles, Green onion chopped, all extra optionals(little broccoli).

There are lots of activities and outings planned for this season, be it: swimming, sunbathing, playing in the park, hiking, travelling, planning picnics and BBQs, meeting friends outside and discovering new places. Heat the oil with the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Dip the back of your spoon into the oil and then press down with it onto the potato cakes to flatten them a bit. Fry until browned and then carefully flip them over and brown on the other side.

Potato cakes step by step

  1. Heat oil in frying pan.
  2. Add in any extras at this time to the mashed potatoes, before forming into patties. (no need to add anything extra if you don’t have it.)Take cold mashed potatoes and shape them like hamburger patties..
  3. Take 2 eggs and beat them.
  4. Take potato patties and coat in flour, then eggs, then bread crumbs and fry until golden brown. When frying don’t forget to flip them. (if they fall apart a few of mine did, when coating them no big deal just reshape them in the bread crumbs that’s what I did.).
  5. Drain on wire rack or paper towels before severing.
  6. Notes- use a spatula, when placing in oil. I used my hands and just picked them up and one fell apart, my 2nd batch I placed in with a spatula.

This photograph is a bit shaky but that is probably because a slew of grandkids ran through the kitchen as Mama was taking it. This recipe uses leftover mashed potatoes and creates a whole new side dish, mashed potato cakes. Granny's Leftover Mashed Potato Cakes are very basic. The mashed potato base should already be flavorful, so we only add grated onion and bread crumbs to thicken it up. Irish Potato Cakes Recipe How to Make Potato Cakes.