MIXED POTATO HASH BROWNS

This recipe was created as a necessity, as I needed a side dish to a few small, yet expensive pieces of eye fillet steak on Sunday night. I glanced at all the market fresh vegetables in my vegetable crisper and only felt like warm potatoes. I like to think that this dish is a progression from my Babushka’s (Russian for grandma) inspired Chive Potato cakes from April this year: http://soulfulsandwiches.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/chive-potato-cakes.html.

Adding sweet potato in to increase the low GI and decrease the starchiest of the regular potato worked very well, and also gave the potato cakes a sweeter flavour. If you do not have a gluten or wheat allergy, regular plain flour can be used. These hash browns turned out to be a perfect accompaniment to our steak and the Muppets movie…yes we did watch that! What can I say, Jason Segal does it for me.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 large sweet potato, peeled & grated
• 1 large potato (such as sebago), peeled & grated
• 2 eggs (preferably free range), lightly beaten
• 1 medium brown onion, grated
• 2 tablespoons gluten-free flour
• sea salt & black pepper
• coconut oil 

COOKING 

1.  Preheat a fan-forced oven to 200 degrees celsius. Line a large baking tray with baking paper. 

2. Combine the grated potatoes with the grated onion in a large bowl. Carefully place the grated vegetables into a large clean tea-towel, wrapping the towel around the vegetables entirely. Squeeze the towel over a sink so that all the excess moisture is removed. (This can get a little messy but is oddly satisfying!). Return the vegetables to the bowl, then stir in the eggs, flour, sea salt & pepper and mix well to combine. 

3. Shape the mixture into even shaped small, round patties. Heat a tablespoon of liquid coconut oil into a large frying pan over medium heat and add as many patties as you can, making sure to not crowd them. Flatten the patties gently with a large spoon and heat on either side for around 4 minutes or until golden in colour. Repeat with other patties and more coconut oil. Place fried patties on the prepared baking tray and bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until grated potato and onion are cooked and no longer soggy. Remove from the oven and serve warm as a lovely side dish. 

Serves / 4 

Total Preparation time / 20 minutes 

Total Cooking time / 30 minutes 

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