In my last post, I mentioned that I had to use up some leftover sweet potatoes.
I was originally going to do some sweet potato croquettes, but I also had half a smoked sausage in the fridge, which I didn’t want to go to waste. So I attempted to make my own little potato cakes 🙂 Even though they were leftover ingredients, I’d definitely go out of my way to buy ingredients in specifically for these. They’re delicious! The finely chopped chilli I added to the mix, gave it a wonderful kick!
I made 3 large potato cakes with this amount of mixture, but it can be easily adapted to make whatever amount (and size) you want.
3 sweet potatoes, boiled and mashed.
Half a Matteson’s smoked sausage, diced into lots of teeny chunks
1 red chilli, chopped finely
1 onion, diced
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 egg, beaten
50g breadcrumbs & 3tbsp paprika, mixed together in a bowl
I mixed all of these ingredients together in a bowl (apart from the egg and breadcrumb mix). Maybe at this point next time, I will shove the mixture into the fridge to stiffen up a bit, as it was VERY messy and sloppy trying to form the cakes! It looked like this (and yes, I did have a few forkfulls…)
I scooped a third of the mixture into my hand and formed a thick disc shape. I used my free hand to spread the egg mix over the cake (very messy, but necessary), then plopped the cake into the breadcrumb mix and coated it thoroughly. I then placed into a large tub, ready for freezing.
I repeated this process with the remaining mixture, then shoved them into the freezer until a few days later, when I brought them out for a midweek meal (accompanied by broccoli and cauliflower mmm).
I put them into a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 20 mins.
If you’d rather cook them straight away, you could pop them into the oven for about 12-15 mins at 200 degrees, but I would recommend frying them for a couple of minutes on each side instead.
I’m glad I found something to do with the leftovers; they would have just ended up in the bin otherwise, and I’m not a fan of waste.
You can make these cakes with practically any leftover; I would love to hear any suggestions of other leftover “cakes”. Enjoy!
P.S – My internet connection has been driving me up the wall of late, so I’m not able to post as frequently as I would like, OR getting to read all my favourite blogs. I hope to get this fixed soon though! 🙂
Must be Sweet Potato Week with lots of us blogging about them 🙂 I haven’t made potato cakes in years and I love what can be done with leftovers – great result!
I’ve noticed that aswell; theres sweet potatoes everywhere at the moment! They are delicious though 🙂 Thanks Giles, hopefully this post will spur you on to make some leftover potato cakes of your own; although I can’t imagine many leftovers with the scrumptious meals you cook up!
They look delicious, I have never heard of Matteson’s smoked sausage though. A new one on me.
It’s just a brand name; any type of sausage will do 🙂 I imagine it would be lovely with chorizo or even hot dogs for cheapness! Thank you for your comment!
Someone dropped a link to your site on Twitter and that is where I first found your blog. I love the way you write and I am going to subscribe to read more whenever I can. Oh yeah, are you on Twitter yet?
Thanks, Shavonne 🙂 I haven’t figured out the twitter thing yet, no, but I may look into it soon 🙂
These look very tasty. I like to use up my leftovers too, used the remains of my chicken pot pie, added some pasta and more bechamel sauce and baked it in the oven for tea tonight!
That sounds amazing Janice! 🙂
Sweet potato & sausage sounds heavenly to me
It’s a gorgeous combination, I love sweet potatoes with anything though! I love chipping sweet potatoes and sprinkling cajun powder over them and oven baking them mmmmm…. will have to do again soon!
Mmmm….my favourite here…sweet potatoes. I have been wanting to make sweet potato patties. I ate from a Japanese restaurant and they were soooo good.
A perfect excuse to get THAT bit extra sweet potatoes, next time you’re doing the food shop! 🙂