Mashed Potato Pancakes with Goat Cheese and Chives
This powerhouse sweet and savory combo will blow your mind/rock your world/change your life.
Servings: 14 small pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups mashed potatoes
- 3 ounces goat cheese
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 eggs beaten
- Salt
- Fresh ground pepper
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil or butter depends on your preference
- For garnish: optional
- Turkey
- Gravy
- Cranberry Sauce
- Whatever other awesome things you can think of
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees. Place a parchment-lined baking sheet in the oven.
- Place your leftover mashed potatoes in a mixing bowl. Mix the goat cheese and chives into your potatoes, then mix in the flour and eggs and season the pancake batter with salt and pepper.
- Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large nonstick pan. When hot, spoon heaping tablespoons of batter into the pan. Make sure to leave enough space between your pancakes so that you can get in there with a spatula to flip them! Cook the pancakes for about 2 minutes until tiny bubbles start to form in the batter. When those bubbles appear, flip them over and cook for another 2 minutes on the second side until golden brown. Transfer cooked pancakes to the prepared baking sheet in the oven to keep warm if you like.
- Heat another tablespoon olive oil and continue cooking pancakes in batches until all of the batter is used up (adding more olive oil as necessary).
- Serve pancakes warm topped with whatever strikes your fancy. I strongly recommend the turkey, gravy and cranberry sauce combo, but you do you.
Notes
You may need to add a little more flour depending on how creamy/buttery your mashed potatoes are. You don’t want the batter to be too liquid. It should have the texture of a thick cake batter.