Potato Cakes with Mushroom Sauce

Name: Potato Cakes with Mushroom Sauce (Kartofeljnye Korlety s Gribnym Sousom)
Cuisine: Russian
Ingredients: 1 kg/2¼ lb floury potatoes; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup butter; 100 ml/3½ fl oz/scant ½ cup warm milk; 1 egg; 75 g/3 oz/1½ cups fresh white breadcrumbs; 15 ml/1 tbsp rapeseed (canola) oil; salt; 1 quantity of Mushroom Sauce to serve

Kartofeljnye Korlety s Gribnym Sousom

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Russian Grandmother's Kitchen

By Elena Makhonko

Published 2015

About

Potatoes are the perfect accompaniment to many Russian dishes and are served fried, boiled, mashed and in gratins, with fish, meat or vegetables. Russians believe potatoes and mushrooms make the perfect combination, and those who do not pick their own mushrooms dry bought ones at home and thread them on a string.

Ingredients

1 kg/2¼ lb floury potatoes
50 g/2

Europe
Russia
Side dish
Low sugar
Low sodium

Method

Peel and cut the potatoes into even pieces. Put in a pan of salted water, bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, until soft. Drain, return to the pan and mash until smooth.
Add 15g/½oz/1 tbsp of the butter and the m

Energy 389kcal/1637kJ; Protein 8.9g; Carbohydrate 56g, of which sugars 5g; Fat 16g, of which saturates 7.7g; Cholesterol 76mg; Calcium 79mg; Fibre 2.9g; Sodium 274mg.