Monday 7 November 2011

Cabbage and Potatoes, so delicious!

Daylight savings has forced us all to fall back and while it is nice to see a bit more sunshine when my alarm goes off in the morning it makes walking home from work in the almost pitch dark make me crave warm, carbolicious comfort foods.

Give these bad daddies a try and you won't be sorry!

Potato pancakes are almost as delicious as French Fries. When you put cabbage in them and serve them with parsley garlic yogurt sauce it makes for one hell of a dish!!

So, slice your green cabbage nice and thin and saute it real sweet and slow with about a tablespoon of butter (don't be afraid of butter). Give it a generous salting as well.

Cabbage takes a lot longer to soften than onions so once it has softened and become slightly translucent add onion. For this recipe I used half a cabbage and two medium sized onions. But you could make a smaller or larger batch easily (obviously...)

While the onion is cooking, put a pot of water on to boil and throw in 2-3 halved potatoes. Blanch the potatoes for just under 10 minutes. Take the cabbage onion hash off the heat and grate the potatoes into a bowl. Add the hash and two eggs. Salt and pepper at will.

Heat a couple generous glops of oil in a frying pan on medium high heat and shape the hash-egg mixture into patties. Fry each patty on either side till they`re lovely and crispy and golden about 2 minutes.

Serve with a yogurt sauce made from about half a cup of yogurt, 2 heaping teaspoons of fresh chopped parsley, salt and pepper and some minced garlic. Yum Yum Yum

I had some today with a serving of Borscht I took out of the freezer. You could also make them in the morning, or afternoon or at 2am when you inevitably crawl out of bed to pee. The potato loves you and you love it!

4 comments:

  1. yum! I've never succeeded in making potato pancakes, maybe another attempt is in order. Oh wait, I have a three month old child, I think I'll stick to mashed for a while. I do love the potato!

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  2. I`ll make them for you at Christmas. I promise.

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  3. My potato pancakes always leave the delicious crunchy part stuck to the pan... grrr.. tips?

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  4. That's probably the starch in the potatoes so make sure you blanch them enough. And then also make sure the oil is hot enough... I don't know... could also be that I had almost half cabbage so that could have helped with the non-stickingness.

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