cheesy bubble and squeak fritters
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Yield 10 fritters
These are an absolute piece of piss to make - if you have leftover cabbage or spring greens to go with your leftover mash, then even better, but even if you have to buy the ingredients in fresh it is a worthwhile cook. They freeze well, and I'm serving them with a cheesy sauce to dip in. Because I'm a whore.
We've worked out the syns - with sauce - as 3.5 for four large hot fritters each. Treat yourself!
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Ingredients
- 400g of mash (or 400g of tatties cooked through and mashed)
- six or eight or even ninety bacon medallions
- bunch of chives
- 160g of spring greens
- 30g of panko (5 syns)
- 50g of Philadelphia Lightest (swap for Quark if saving syns) (but also have a bloody word with yourself, you loon (2 syns)
- 40g of extra mature lighter cheddar
- lighter cheddar? I did yes, but she blew it out after and we've since made up
- enough black pepper and salt to suggest you need to talk to Frank
Instructions
- chop up your bacon medallions and fry them in a little oil, along with your spring greens, until the greens have softened and the bacon is crispy and you feel really proud of yourself
- in a big bowl mix the mash with the panko breadcrumbs, grated cheddar cheese, spring greens, crispy bacon and all the vim and vigour you can muster
- season to taste by eating about half of it
- tell your husband there wasn't as much mash as you thought there was
- offer to make him a sandwich as a conciliatory gesture only for him to turn it down because he's got a tittylip on because you apparently can read minds and should have guessed that he had forgotten to take his lunch to work and was starving
- have a blazing row where fourteen years of angst and indiscretions come tumbling out so he leaves in a huff and you get to eat the rest which you cook by...
- heating a flat frying pan to a medium heat and spraying with just a little squizzle of oil
- form the mash mix into burger shapes and pop them in to almost dry fry
- serve when they are a bit crunchy on the outside and drizzle with the sauce
The sauce, such as it is, is Philadelphia heated ever so slightly with some chopped chives and black pepper mixed in. Drizzle over rather than drown your fritters.
Notes
Recipe
- the panko is worth it because the dryness of the crumb help soak up some of the 'moistness' - you could just blitz a breadbun but honestly, it's worth getting some panko – most major supermarkets stock it and you can stick them in an airtight jar and use them wherever - see the recipe list below for more ideas
- the stronger the cheese, the better these are
- these make a great little snack for taking to taster nights - stack them on top of each other with a slip of greaseproof paper betwixt them
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Tools
- finely mince that cheese with ease - get a Microplane grater and you’ll use it every day!
- give the pan a good coating of oil with a mister – this is what we use
Courses snacks or sides
Cuisine twochubbycubs
Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2020/10/27/cheesy-bubble-and-squeak-fritters/