These mashed potato cakes are a perfect side dish or even a light lunch or dinner. Made of leftover potatoes or freshly cooked ones, these stuffed potato cakes are super easy to make. Whether you prefer a more cheesy filling or a light vegan herb zucchini filling – the combinations are endless.
My own little story behind this recipe is celebrating Christmas in sunny Australia in 2018. Wondering what would be a nice dish for christmas evening, I was thinking of those kind of “Light Dumplings” as a recreation of our traditional dumplings back home in Germany. I always loved, when my mom was heating up the leftover dumplings in a pan and the mashed potato mixture got golden and crispy – so why not put it in the pan right away? Meanwhile my fiancé asked several times to cook this recipe agin, so I guess it is a good one and worth sharing with you guys.
Prepare the veggies by cutting Zucchini and Onions, mash the potatoes and fill them with  veggie mixture.
After filling the mashed potatoes, fry them in the pan until golden brown.
Enjoy the potato cakes with some sour cream and parsley on the side.
Ingredients
- 1 kg potatoes
- 100-200g flour
- 2 small zucchini
- 1 big onion
- Some cheese (optional)
- salt, pepper, rosemary
- Some butter to fry
- 1 cup of sour cream
- Some fresh herbs for decoration
Instructions
- Peal the potatoes and cut them into little cubes. Once done, boil potatoes until they are very soft.
- Mash the potatoes and let them cool down.
- Meanwhile cut zucchini and onion into little cubes and fry them in a pan with oil. Season the veggies with salt, pepper and rosemary.
- Cut up the cheese into small cubes as well.
- Once the potatoes are cooled down, add some flour and knead the potato mixture until smooth. Add the flour step by step to get a feeling when the mixture creates a good dough to form and fill.
- Now divide the potato mixture into 8-6 pieces, press each piece flat and fill them with one tbs of the zucchini-onion mixture and cheese, wrap the potato dough around.
- When all potatoes dumplings are formed, fry them in the pan with hot butter until golden.
- Place the potatoes cakes on a plate with some sour cream and fresh herbs and enjoy the delicious food with all your senses 🙂
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