Vegetarian Fried Mashed Potato Cakes
These fried mashed potato cakes are the crispiest vegetarian recipe that will come to your mind first with its practicality whenever you are thinking about what to cook.
The Crispiest Fried Mashed Potato Cakes Recipe
This recipe is one of the vegetarian recipes that those who try it find the most favorite and most delicious.
It is more popular day by day due to its budget-friendly and keeping you full for a long time.
It also provides a variety of cooking alternatives. You can bake, fry, and also you can roast them. But today we will share its fried version with you.
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We are sure that you will like it very much with its few ingredients and fast preparation. Its most important trick is to add flour little by little to get a thick dough.
Your dough should not be too hard but also its should not be too soft. For this reason, we recommend that you shape the dough by slightly moistening your hands when it is shaped.
Now let’s move on to the step-by-step recipe and understand more clearly what we are talking about.
Fried Mashed Potato Cakes (4 Servings)
Vegetarian Fried Mashed Potato Cakes Recipe
Per Serving
Calories: 327
Net Carb: 44g
Total Fat: 15g
Protein: 6g
Ingredients
Potatoes (3 medium, boiled)
Parsley (1/2 bunch)
All-purpose flour (1-1.5 cups, optionally you can use whole wheat flour)
Egg (1)
1.5 cups oil for frying
Salt and pepper to taste
Recipe – 15min prep / 25 min cooking time
Wash the potatoes thoroughly.
Peel and chop into large pieces.
Then boil the chopped potatoes.
Take the boiled potatoes into a deep bowl and mash with a fork.
Add finely chopped parsley, egg, salt, and pepper and mix.
Finally, add the flour little by little and knead.
Put water in a small bowl and wet your hands frequently with this water while kneading.
Get a slightly soft dough.
Wet your hands again and shape your dough into round to medium-thick flat patties.
Put the meatballs on a plate and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Bring a frying pan and preheat it.
Pour the frying oil into the pan and start heating the oil.
Recommendation: Frying using Sunflower oil will make the potato cakes tastier, but you can fry them in olive oil for a lighter version.
Take the potato cakes into the heated oil and fry both sides until become brown.
Be careful not to fry them too much. It is enough for them to take a golden brown.
Tip: Place the potato cakes on a towel after frying so that the oil drains well.
That’s all!
Do You Know Secret Tips for Making The Best Frying
Fried Mashed Potato Cakes – Tips for Fry
French fries, chicken fries, meatballs, zucchini, or cheese sticks… There are some secret tips you should know no matter what fries you’re going to make.
By learning these tips and recommendations, you will know how to make the best fries.
Potatoes
Potatoes are very valuable for all of us. Because they are the vegetables we fry the most in our homes. That’s why we wanted to start with it first.
The trick to frying potatoes is to soak them in extra cold and salty water for a while before frying them.
This way they will absorb less oil and will be crispy.
Also, when frying them, make sure the oil is very hot and does not keep the fire at the highest level.
Another condition for having the best fries is choosing potatoes without green color parts on them. If you make sure they’re fresh, they won’t need as much oil as they’ll be ready sooner. Therefore, they absorb less oil.
Eggplants
The best eggplant and zucchini fry under the same conditions. But there are a few other tricks as eggplants absorbing more oil.
After peeling the eggplants into strips, you cut them as you wish, but do you fry them immediately afterward?
If your answer is yes, try frying them after resting them in salty cold water for at least 15 min. (before chopping them)
Then cut as you wish.
Afterward, soak them in salty cold water again (at least 15 minutes).
Before proceeding to the frying stage, drain the excess water and even wipe the remaining water with the help of paper towels.
This allows them to fry dryly and therefore not absorb much oil.
You will see that the water has become very dark. This is the bitter taste of eggplant. This process allows you to get rid of that bitter taste and eat more delicious eggplant fries.
Pepper and Tomato
If you want it to absorb less oil while frying vegetables, you can put 1 teaspoon of vinegar in it. In this way, the oil will not penetrate into the vegetables and they will have a delicious consistency.
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