Boxty - Irish
A traditional potato cake, try serving with grilled bacon for Breakfast.
A good dish to try, when you’ve got some mashed potatoes left over.
Preparation time: 15 minutes Quantity: Makes 4 cakes Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Ingredients
250g/ 8 oz potato - peeled
250g/ 8 oz mashed potato
250g/ 8 oz plain flour- sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
seasoning
30g/1 oz melted salted butter
125 ml full fat milk
Method
- Grate the potatoes
- Squeeze the excess potato juice out of the raw potato in to a bowl
- Reserve the starchy, white stuff
- Add the starch to the grated and mashed potatoes
- Add all the other ingredients and form in to a dough
- Divide into four
- Form in to 4 flat cakes
- Mark each into quarters
- Bake in a hot oven till light golden