Potato Cake Recipe for Martina

Hi Martina,

It's not really a recipe. It's a "what have you got in the cupboard”.

Plain potato cakes made with grated raw potato.

Grate potato. Put into clean cloth and squeeze out juice.

• Use grated potato straight away or it starts to turn brown.
• Add lots of salt and pepper and then try to form into patties in your hands. Not too thick.
• If they won't stick together add in a little leftover cooked mashed potato or a little flour.
• Get oil in frying pan good and hot.
• Put a couple of cakes in and do not touch until golden brown underneath (otherwise they fall apart in the pan). Then turn over and fry til golden.
• Pop into the oven to stay warm while you cook the rest.

Left-over mashed potato cakes

Mashed potato plus some egg... (dinner for family of 4= about 1 egg)

and 1 -2 dessertspoons of flour.. enough to make it just stiff enough for making patties.

• Mix in a little of what you have in the fridge...
• Mashed carrot and fried onion.
• Left over fish and sweetcorn.
• Sauteed leek and cooked sausage chopped up fine.
• Chopped cooked rasher with onion and random leftover veggies chopped fine. (dash of worcestershire goes well with rasher and onion)
• Cook as the other cakes.
• Excellent with a fried egg if you want to add some protein.

Hope you enjoy!