Side Dish Recipes
Potato Pancakes
(Panques de Papa)
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 6 red potatoes
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
Instructions
- Bring water to boil in a large pot. Peel potatoes and cut into 1 inch pieces. Put into boiling water and boil until potatoes are fully cooked. Drain, then discard water.
- Heat oven to 150 degrees F.
- Beat potatoes on medium speed of an electric mixer until smooth.
- Mix in eggs, cheese, salt and 1/2 cup of the bread crumbs.
- Form 1 inch balls and then flatten the balls into rounds.
- In a heavy skillet, heat the oil.
- Dip potato pancakes in remaining bread crumbs and fry pancakes until brown on both sides, 1 minute on each side, then 30 seconds on the first side again.
- Place fried pancakes on a paper towel on an oven-proof platter.
- When finished frying potato pancakes, discard the paper and place the pancakes in the oven until ready to serve.