Cheese Puff Potatoes

Name: Cheese Puff Potatoes
Ingredients: Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 fl oz (110 ml) milk; 2 oz (50 g) plain flour; 3 eggs, separated; Vegetable oil for frying; 1 medium onion, diced; 1 lb (450 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed; 4 oz (110 g) Gruyère cheese, grated

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

The scrunch of the almost raw onion inside melting little clouds of cheese and potato is simple perfection.

Ingredients

1 lb (450 g) potatoes, peeled, cooked and puréed
4 oz (110

Starter
Dinner
Christmas
Vegetarian
December

Method

Stir the cheese, onion, egg yolks, milk, seasoning and flour into the potato purée.

Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into the potato mixture. Heat the oil in a wide frying pan and cook tablespoons of the mixture until barely golden. Eat at once.