Easiest Way to Prepare Tasty Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes

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Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes. Heat the oil with the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Cheesy Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes are the perfect snack! Cheesy on the inside, so crispy on the outside and so easy to make!

Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes They are easy-to-make and begging for a place at your dinner table. If you love Sweet Potato side dishes, try my Garlic Butter Sweet Potato Fries, Candied Sweet Potatoes and Sweet Potato. Heat a thin layer of vegetable oil in a frying pan. You can have Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes using 3 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes

  1. You need 500 grams of Sweet potatoes.
  2. It's 50 grams of Flour.
  3. Prepare 70 grams of Sugar.

Drop large spoonfuls of the potato mixture into the frying pan. This is a great way to serve sweet potatoes on holidays or any other day. Everyone gets a personal patty, or two…or three because trust me, they are that good. I also like to make regular or sweet potato cakes for lunch sometimes, it doesn't have to be strictly a holiday dish.

Mashed Sweet Potato Cakes step by step

  1. Slice the sweet potatoes in 1 cm thickness. Skins can be removed or left on. I boil the potatoes first, then remove the skin when I mash them..
  2. Drain the potatoes and mix flour and sugar and mash together. Add a little of the liquid from the boiled potatoes (about 50 ml) for a smooth consistency. It's fine not to add liquid..
  3. Mash until it becomes to this consistency. It's tasty with a few lumps..
  4. Roll into desired size. Shape them round like the moon. The large ones are for dinner, and the smaller ones are for tomorrow's packed lunch..
  5. Let them cool. If fried hot, they may crumble! Coat lightly in flour before frying..
  6. Deep fry in oil. You can also fry them in a pan..
  7. If there's mashed potato left over, wrap and store in freezer..
  8. The smaller cakes are for packed lunch..
  9. I recreated this pounded cakes with sweet bean paste inside that I once found. This version also delicious. They're addictive..

In a large skillet, saute onion in butter until tender. In a large bowl, lightly beat one egg. Add the onion, potatoes, flour, salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce if desired. Leftover sweet potatoes get new life by turning into the star of the breakfast table. In a large bowl, beat the sugar, potatoes, shortening, water and egg.