Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, meen's sweet potato cakes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
How To Make Easy Sweet Potato Cakes (aka Sweet Potato Patties) Peel, grate and squeeze excess moisture from sweet potatoes. Mix sweet potato gratings with egg, flour, feta, garlic, green onions and spices. The mini sweet potato cakes stole the show. I followed the recipe and they came out fantastic.
Meen's Sweet Potato Cakes is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Meen's Sweet Potato Cakes is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have meen's sweet potato cakes using 11 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Meen's Sweet Potato Cakes:
- Prepare My 5 Main Ingredients
- Get 6 Pcs Sweet Potatoes
- Take 11/2 TBS Milk
- Prepare 11/2 TBS Flour + extra for coating utensils
- Prepare 1/2 TBS Sugar
- Get Pinch Baking Powder
- Get Items From Pantry
- Make ready 1 Small Onion
- Get Pinch Salt
- Take 3 Cups Water + extra 2 TBS
- Make ready As Needed Vegetable Oil (For deep frying)
The cake embraces a mixture of spices that include cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground cloves. Sweet Potato Cakes: Mash sweet potatoes in a mixing bowl until smooth. Add green onions, cilantro, sour cream, egg, bread crumbs, grated garlic and mix well. Season with salt and pepper, and mash all ingredients together well with a potato masher to combine.
Steps to make Meen's Sweet Potato Cakes:
- These are my five main ingredients and also those I used from the pantry.
- Peel all the sweet potatoes and immerse each one in water after peeling it.
- Cut them into small chunks. I prefer them small to ease the mashing process. Rinse three times, replacing water each time.
- Get a clean pot, add water and put on flame. Add potatoes and salt.
- Allow to cook on high heat for 15 minutes. Strain and transfer to a bowl.
- Mash with a ladle. Add two TBS of water. Stir.
- Sieve flour in a separate container
- Add in measured baking powder, flour, sugar and milk. Mix.
- Knead with hand to form dough.
- Flour tray and rolling pin. Cut out some dough, place on tray and roll it out.
- Assemble cookie cutters and coat them in flour.
- Use them to cut dough and remove excess.
- Place the shaped cakes in a kitchen paper lined flour coated tray. Repeat step 10 to 13 until dough is exhausted.
- Preheat oil on high heat in a frying pan, add slices of onion. Immerse cakes into oil and reduce heat to medium. Flip when the bottom is fried.
- Strain from oil when desired colour is achieved and transfer to a kitchen tissue lined food flask. This is important as it prevents it from becoming soggy due to excess oil.
- Transfer to a plate when you are ready to serve and decorate as desired. I served mine on a bed of sugar and decorated with powdered milk.
- The taste is exceptional and every bite is truly a *Munchy Bite.
Add green onions, cilantro, sour cream, egg, bread crumbs, grated garlic and mix well. Season with salt and pepper, and mash all ingredients together well with a potato masher to combine. To make the potato cakes, squeeze the excess moisture from the sweet potato, then combine with flour, parsley, egg white, harissa and some salt in a bowl until the mixture sticks together. Heat a little oil in a frying pan. WATCH THE VIDEO: NUTRITION INFO Most of our recipes are low-carb (or keto) and gluten-free, but some are not.
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