Recipe: Goat’s Cheese Potato Cakes
Our 10 best goat’s cheese recipes – the recipe below is number 4 on the list if you scroll down:
Goat’s cheese potato cakes
This version of the Ukrainian deruny uses goat’s cheese to add beautiful sour notes to the umami flavours of the original potato cakes. You’ll want to use a soft cheese – but not too soft – with a robust flavour.
Serves 4
500g Maris Piper potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 small onion, peeled and roughly chopped
1 egg, lightly beaten
50g soft goat’s cheese, mashed with a fork
60g plain flour
Salt and black pepper
Vegetable oil, for frying
1 Preheat oven to 180C/160C/gas mark 5. Blitz the potato and onion in a food processor. Squeeze out as much moisture as possible over a colander and pat the mixture dry with some kitchen paper to make sure the mix is as dry as it can get.
2 Mix in the egg, goat’s cheese and flour, then season with salt and pepper. Heat the vegetable oil in medium pan over a medium heat.
3 Carefully drop in large dessertspoonfuls of the mixture into the pan and fry the potato cakes for 2 minutes on each side. Place in the oven for 10 minutes to finish cooking before you are ready to serve.
