Description
Ready, set, cook! Special edition contest entry: this is an crowd-pleasing side dish or appetizer that can made the day before your dinner party (with the patties fried just before serving.)the goat cheese crumbles add a nice tartness to the potatoes and the roasted red pepper salsa provides a refreshing contrast.
Ingredients
- Simply Potatoes Traditional Mashed Potatoes
- Goat Cheese
- Cumin
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Salt
- Vegetable Oil
- Panko Breadcrumbs
- Eggs
- Milk
- Red Peppers
- Cilantro
- Green Onion
- Black Olives
- Lime Juice
Instructions
- To make the patties, combine the simply potatoes, goat cheese crumbles, cumin and black pepper in a large bowl
- Take a heaping tablespoon of the potatoes and shape into a 1 inch patty
- Place the patties on a cookie sheet and refrigerate at least 1 hour or overnight
- To make the salsa, roast 2 red peppers over gas flame or under a broiler
- Place roasted red peppers in a plastic bag until cool enough to handle
- Peel off blackened skin, chop up peppers and place them in a medium bowl
- Combine peppers with cilantro, green onions, black olives and lime juice
- Refrigerate salsa at least 1 hour or overnight
- Just before serving, fry the potato patties
- Combine the egg and milk in small bowl and place the panko bread crumbs in a medium bowl
- Heat the vegetable oil in a 10 inch frying pan on medium high for 4-5 minutes
- Dip the potato patties in the egg mixture first and then coat both sides in the panko
- Fry the patties in 2 batches in the hot oil 4 minutes per side or until golden brown
- Drain fried patties on a paper towel
- Top each potato patty with a tablespoon of red pepper salsa and serve immediately