• Mashed Potato Cakes with Pepper Garlic Sauce

    Mashed Potato Cakes with Pepper Garlic Sauce

    The theme of our 12 days of Christmas countdown this year is focused on foods you can serve at your Christmas parties that can be little additions to the staples on your dinner table and serve as appetizers, desserts, drinks and others. We all know Jollof rice, fried rice and chicken would be on the menu for a lot of houses but why not add to it? Our first suggestion is mashed potato cakes with a pepper garlic sauce which by the way you can make in bulk. The pepper garlic sauce that is. I will be writing recipes for smaller portions but please remember you can double the recipe or triple it to fit the crowd you have.

    P:S : This year we are not publishing our posts sequentially. We are starting earlier so you can start picking what dishes you like 🙂

     

    Recipe for Mashed Potato Cakes with Pepper Garlic Sauce

    Potato Cakes:

    1 large potato

    Seasoning cube

    An egg

    A handful of Chopped spring Onions

    1 handful of Chopped Carrots

    8 tablespoons of flour

     

     For the pepper sauce :

    3 scotch bonnet peppers (ata rodo)

    3 Cloves garlic

    1 tablespoon vegetable oil

    Seasoning cube

    Potato Cakes:

    Boil the potato and mash in a large bowl.

    In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and add the seasoning cube.

    Pour the egg mix into the bowl with the mashed potato and add the chopped carrot and spring onions.

    Add the flour and mix till everything is properly incorporated. In a pan with a little oil, scoop the potato mix and shallow fry till brown on both sides.

    Pepper Garlic Sauce:

    Blend the pepper and garlic.
    In a pan with heated oil, fry the blended pepper garlic mix and season with the seasoning cube and serve with the potato cakes.

     

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    4 comments on “Mashed Potato Cakes with Pepper Garlic Sauce”

      • afrolems Reply

        Potato skin is a great source of fibre. For this recipe however, because of the texture the skins have, I didn’t use it. You can however try it on your end and let me know if it worked out great for you.

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