I was fortunate enough to be able to buy 200 lbs. of potatoes from a local farm this year, and they were only $.10 a pound.
Of course, that means lots and lots of potato soup, baked potatoes, and mashed potatoes. I found a way for us to use up some of the leftover mashed potatoes by making them into potato croquets.
All you need to do is:
Mix together 1/2 cup flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup shredded cheese, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper with 2 cups leftover mashed potatoes. Carefully shape into “patties” and dredge on both sides in cornmeal.
Fry in a traditional fat,
like beef tallow or coconut oil until golden brown, approximately 3 minutes. Butter can be used, but be careful of scorching. Flip over and fry on the other side for another 2-3 minutes.
Serve with pepper gravy, if desired.
Make the gravy by first melting 4 tablespoons butter in a pan, and adding 4 tablespoons flour. Allow to cook for 1 minute to remove the “raw flour” taste. Add 2 cups of milk, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp pepper. Stir constantly, allowing gravy to thicken. Perfect as a side dish, for breakfast or any time.
Heather’s homesteading journey started in 2006, with baby steps: first, she got a few raised beds, some chickens, and rabbits. Over the years, she amassed a wealth of homesteading knowledge, knowledge that you can find in the articles of this blog.
These look great! We’ve done a similar vegan version with leftover beans and veg mixed into the potatoes, but I didn’t develop the recipe enough to publish.
200 lbs of potatoes? Wow! You definitely have been busy cooking various potato dishes!
Definitely potato fans around here, thanks for the recipe. These look so yummy
Wow 200 potatoes, your very ambitious. Looks like a tasty recipe, I’ll have to try it.
Yummy! Were they russet potatoes?
yes ma’am…delicious russets! 🙂
I like to put a little bit of onion in mine sometimes.
These look absolutely delicious and perfect for me! I am very bad for making way too much when I make mashed potatoes and end up throwing out most of it. Pinning for the next time I do that!
Looks like a delicious alternative to some other potato sides. Great way to mix it up. I can’t get over the 200 pounds of potatoes being purchased! I have a family of 11 and I wouldn’t even know where to store 200 pounds of potatoes!
we have them in bushel baskets on shelves in our walk in pantry 🙂 It’s only 6 baskets…sounds like more than it really is 😉
These look like my potato cakes; we had them just last week and you are right they are so good. I was using my leftover mashed potatoes, too.
Those look absolutely delicious. I love potato in every all forms, lol. I must try this out, definedly.
I hope u did some canning with 200lbs of gators?
yes, as a matter of fact, we canned and dehydrated a LOT of them!
Admittedly at first I thought it said “potato crochet” and I was excited to learn to make a tater. But now I’m hungry and these look so dang delicious!
Hi Heather!
This is my first time at your site and let me just say, I love your blurb on the side that said “hi and to c’mon in!” It reminds me of a warm, southern hospitality that I’ve experienced in the past when dining in Southern states. I know about croquets from seeing them on the Food Network and let me just tell you that these look amazing! Thanks for sharing the recipe with us! 🙂
Hi Brittnei and welcome! Thanks so much for coming~!
That looks really easy to do -I think I would try that when we have potatoes around 🙂 Thanks!
I just got some Yukon Gold potatoes and wanted to do something a little different with them. This is perfect! Thanks!
One of my fond childhood memories is of warm potato pancakes with lots of applesauce.