Fried potato cakes with cheese and 3 onion

This is a great way to use up leftover mashed potato, but for this recipe I have made the mash freshly.

Ingredients:

Potatoes

Cheese - any, grated

Onion (I used white onion, red onion and spring onion because these were what I had in my fridge)

Butter - knob

Milk - a splash

Creme fraiche (optional) - couple of tablespoons

Salt

Pepper

Flour

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Peel and cut potatoes.  Boil until cooked and drain.

 

Dice onions.

Add the ingredients to the potatoes while the spuds are still hot.  It will help the butter and cheese to melt and incorporate.  

Add everything, season and mash til the mixture is smooth and blended.

 

Form the mixture into flat patties.  Use flour to hold the mixture, coat your hands and if you have put in too much milk and the mixture is very wet and sticky, you can mix through a little flour to thicken the mix.  Coat the surface of the cakes with flour.  This will help them hold when you fry them.

 

 

Add a little oil and heat in a frying pan.  Add the potato cakes and fry on a medium to high heat.  When they are golden, turn them over and fry until golden on that side.

 

These potato cakes will keep in the fridge after frying and can be heated up easily.

The best thing about making these is that what you put in them need only be limited by your imagination.  Cheese, chives, ham, fresh herbs, peas - they are versatile and such a tasty way to use up random leftover ingredients.  Similarly, quantities don't matter - you can put in any amount of ingredients to suit yourself, or depending on what you have.

 

 

Made 4 cakes.

Cost - negligable, as all ingredients were store cupboard.

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