RECIPE: Easy Peasy Potato Cakes

 

These easy peasy potato cakes are based on the traditional English peasant dish Bubble and Squeak, usually made from leftover vegetables from a Sunday roast! 

 

Makes 8-10 cakes

 

Ingredients

 

8 boiled potatoes

1 tsp ground black pepper

1 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp chilli flakes

1/4 cup frozen corn

1/4 cup frozen peas

1 handful spinach, chopped

 

1. Pre boil the potatoes. Once the potatoes are boiled mash them up. Add pepper, onion powder, salt, chilli flakes, corn, peas, and spinach. Mix well.

 

2. Create palm-sized cakes out of the mixture.

 

3. In a non-stick frying pan on medium-low heat, place a cakes and press down in the pan until it is about 3/4 inch thick. Cook until brown on the bottom, then flip over and repeat.

 

Serve with your favourite sauce, along side a big salad, or with soup.

 

TIPS

- Use whatever spices you like! Add some curry powder, chilli, paprika, cumin, etc. Make them your own.