Best Meals Recipes-Old Fashioned Potato Croquettes-Patties

Old Fashioned Potato Croquettes-PattiesFried, Boiled and mash potatoes for an all time favorite dish.

This recipe is brought out of archive by my dearest friend Amy Faust J. She expressed an interest in old fashioned recipe for potato patties made by her grandma, quit forgotten in every day meals.

This recipe is my mothers favorite breakfast dish. 

I grew up on potato and as a young girl I was called "Potato Head" because who ever asked me for favorite meal the answer was always "Potato".

Amy I hope it's close to your grandma's recipe. Please let me know how you like it?

Ingredients

1.7 pounds-750 g white potato

3.60 oz.-100 g flour

a little grounded nutmeg

1 teaspoon of vegetable seasoning or salt

5.3 oz.-150 g any kind of cheese

1.41 oz- 40 g margarine

2 egg yolks

frying oil

1. Cook potatoes , 
2. peel it and mash it hot , add flour , vegetable seasoning, little nutmeg, margarine, and 2 egg yolks.
3. Mix the dough well. 
4. Cut the dough into 14 equal parts.
5. In the center of each piece, add piece of cheese and design croquettes-patties.  
6. Fry croquettes in hot oil 
7. Serve warm as a hot appetizer ( great for breakfast instead of bread ) or serve with any kind of meat .

Maybe you are looking for a desert?

If you want dessert, add into mashed potato: sugar to taste , little salt, margarine, egg yolks and a little cinnamon and instead of pieces of cheese fill the dough with fresh fruit ( apricots, plums or peaches without seed ). Toss some sugar over fruit and  make a balls. Cook them in boiling water ( about 5 minutes or when potato balls surface the water ) . During that time fry some white breadcrumbs(6-7 table spoons) in the oil and add a little cinnamon into fried breadcrumbs. Finally roll cooked balls into fried breadcrumbs. Serve warm with a little sugar on the top.

Hints:  

• Potato must be quit warm when you peel it and mash it.
• Never leave the potato dough to stay more then 10 min because it becomes watery and you will need to add more flour into it.
• Powder your palms with flour all the time because dough is very sticky.

Nutrition Facts of one potato (200g) (Russet potato):

Amount Per Serving
Calories                              140             
Total Fat                                0 gCholesterol                          0 mg
Sodium                               10 mgTotal Carbohydrate           31 gDietary Fiber                         5 g
Sugars                                   2 gProtein                                    3 gAlso contains Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron.

As per many researches Domestic and International potato (especially sweet potatoes) decreases certain kind of cancer (colon and prostate), lowering cholesterol and has some anti-oxidant, good for your skin. They are pretty high in carbohydrates and calories.

Hope you will enjoy.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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