Potato Cakes with Banana Filling

Name: Potato Cakes with Banana Filling
Ingredients: Vegetable oil or butter for frying; A little flour; Lemon juice; 2 oz (50 g) butter; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 ripe bananas, sliced into inch-long pieces; 2 lb (900 g) potatoes

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

In Latin America, potato cakes are often served with fried bananas or plantains, and a very successful combination it is too. Here, the banana is used as a filling for the potato cake.

Ingredients

2 lb (900 g) potatoes
2 oz (50

Cake
Vegetarian
November

Method

Peel and boil the potatoes. Drain and dry them well and then put through a sieve. Add the butter and the seasoning and mix thoroughly.

Sprinkle the banana slices with lemon juice, and then slightly flatten each piece of banana so that you can cover with a coating of the potato mixture to make a thickish cake. Dust with the flour and fry in the butter/oil until brown on both sides.