Submitted by madcat
For all those potatoes that won’t store. With very few ingredients you can make a delicious side whilst saving any sprouting spuds from the waste.
Ingredients for Potato Cakes:
- Potatoes
- Milk
- Butter
- Salt & Pepper
Method for Potato Cakes:
- Boil/steam your potatoes as preferred and tip hot into a big bowl. Â Mash with plenty of butter, milk, salt and pepper to make a nice firm, smooth textured mashed potato.
You can make them into plain potato cakes at this stage by:
- Lining a freezer proof tray, oven tray or chopping board with eazileave or if pushed, clingfilm, (don’t try it unlined – they will freeze onto the surface)
- Flouring your hands and the worktop generously, taking a small handfull (say a clementine sized ball) of mash and shaping it into a ball.
- Pat gently into a flat cake and put on the lined tray.
- Fill the tray with cakes and open freeze. Â Pack into bags with the eazileave or film as separators.
Cook from frozen on the griddle or in the oven in about 20 mins. Â Heaven for those days when all are starving and you are exhausted.
However, if you have other gluts or leftovers, try:
- adding some chopped cooked greens (cabbage, kale etc) and a little softened onion for bubble and squeak cakes. Â Serve with fried/poached egg for a quick and filling meal
- adding cooked and mashed apple (fallings are great) with a little softened onion and some chopped sage. Â Great with cold pork
- adding chopped celery leaves and some grated cheese;
- adding chopped parsley and crushed garlic – the smell is heavenly;
- adding other mashed veg such as parsnip (with a touch of nutmeg) or swede or turnip.  Be careful it doesn’t get sloppy; add a  little flour to stiffen it if necessary
- using leftover parsley sauce to mash the spuds; parsley potato cakes go well with ham or gammon
- likewise leftover cheese sauce with a little softened onion and a touch of mustard powder
This sounds fantastic! I might try these as a breakfast food with egg on top!