Feta and potato patties

Submitted by teresaspindel

"This is delicious. I can't say more. The recipe comes from Martha Day's Vegetarian flip book."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 45mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lb potato
• 4 ounces feta cheese
• 4 spring onions or 1 onion, tennis ball- size,chopped
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill or 1 1/2 tablespoons dried dill
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 egg, beaten
• flour (for dredging)
• olive oil
• salt & freshly ground black pepper

directions

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins in lightly salted water until soft.
2. Drain, peel the potatoes while warm, place in a bowl and mash.
3. Add the feta cheese crumbled, the spring onions or the onion, dill, lemon juice and egg.
4. Season with salt and pepper (not too much salt: the feta cheese is fairly salted already).
5. Stir well.
6. Cover the mixture and chill about 30 minutes.
7. Divide the mixture in walnut-size balls, and flatten them slightly so they look like little thick cookies (it helps to have a bowl with water on the table to clean the hands after making several patties: they get very sticky!).
8. Dredge with the flour.
9. Heat some oil in a frying pan (like 3 tablespoons) and fry the patties until golden brown on each side.
10. Keep adding little oil when needed.
11. Drain on kitchen paper and serve warm.

Reviews

[Lisette W.]

I love these - I've been making them since I was 13 (19 years, now). My suggestion would be to use cold mashed potatoes (even better if they're left over from the night before!) as they won't be so soft and fluffy.

 

[najwa]

Wonderful flavor! I didn't add enough dill though, next time I will use the full amount specified in the recipe, and there will be a next time! Thanks!