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Easy potato pancakes are perfect for breakfast, lunch, or as an appetizer. They have crispy golden edges and a cheesy center!
Serve these pancakes as an appetizer alongside Bacon Wrapped Smokies, Spinach Puffs, and Queso Blanco.
Mashed Potato Pancakes
We love pancakes, but have you ever tried Potato Pancakes?
Potato pancakes are such a delicious way to use up leftover mashed potatoes. They have fluffy centers, golden edges, and a little cheese for extra flavor.
They’re great as a side dish instead of mashed potatoes or baked potatoes – but I also love them for breakfast instead of making hash browns.
We’ve always loved mashed potatoes and rarely have leftovers, but with this recipe we are sure to try and have some saved so we can make these mashed potato pancakes the next morning.
How to Make Potato Pancakes
I prefer using mashed potatoes without garlic – but if that’s all you have they’ll work too.
- COMBINE. Aa a little shredded cheddar cheese, parsley, eggs, and flour to the mashed potatoes. The eggs and flour help to bind the pancakes together. Adding the cheese and parsley add even more flavor. Mix all the ingredients together.
- SEASON. I always add a little salt and pepper for flavor – but this will depend on how much seasoning you added to your mashed potatoes.
- FORM. To form the batter into patties, I like to use a large cookie scoop or ice cream scoop to make potato pancakes that are around 3-4 tablespoons of batter each. Flatten out the patties with your palms so they’re about 1/3 – 1/2 inch thick.
- FRY. Then fry in a large frying or on the griddle until golden on both sides.
Tips + Storing Info
I like to serve these with the same toppings as baked potatoes, which includes:
- sour cream
- green onion
- bacon bits
- and more cheese!
To FREEZE, wrap tightly in aluminum foil and place in a freezer-safe Ziploc bag. Place in freezer and store there for up to 3 months. Look at the notes above on how to reheat the pancakes if frozen.
REHEAT in the oven. To do that, preheat oven to 350 (or 400 for frozen potato pancakes). Place a baking rack on a baking sheet, arrange on top and bake for about 5 minutes (10 minutes for frozen potato pancakes).
For more pancake recipes:
Potato Pancake Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups mashed potatoes
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- salt and pepper to taste to taste
- vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Preheat a large frying pan or griddle to medium heat.
- If your potatoes are cold from the fridge, I recommend warming them up slightly and giving them a second mash or beating with an electric mixer so they’re easier to work with.
- In a large bowl add the mashed potatoes, eggs, flour, cheese, parsley, salt and pepper.
- Stir the ingredients together.
- Grease the frying pan/skillet lightly.
- Form the dough into patties about 1/4 cup of batter each. Flatten the patty between your palms.
- Fry on the one side until golden (about 3-5 minutes), then flip and fry on the second side until golden.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My mom made these these for us as a small child. I dont remember what we called them but I remember that we liked them. A potato served as a patty with all the trimmings.
These are super delicious! Easy to make!
i would never of thought to make pancakes with potatoes. They are so fluffy and taste good. They are great for leftovers too!
My mom would use leftover maShed potatOes, fOrm a pancaKe and fry Them in the Pan we’d just cooked bacon in. Ive Never seen a recipe fOr them until now. I loved the additional ingredIeNts you used. Sooo good!!!
How delicious!! I would have never thought to try these, but they looked so good & they were! They were so soft & adding sour cream on top, makes them the perfect little snack or dinner!
These are seriously so good! I made them ahead of time and just reheated them when it was time i eat!
Yes, they are prefect for re-heating! Thank you for letting me know!
These are a childhood favorite 🙂
THese Look amazing! Can’t wait to try.
These are perfect! Such a great use for leftover potatoes!
I added some rosemary and thyme. Mashed taters already seasoned with onion, garlic and cheese. The flavors melted together and was fabulous! I only had a lil trouble getting the right consistancy since I did not have as many spuds leftover as called for in recipe. I also was able to reheat n eat them and was tastier than the 1st time. Thank you iron cooking makes everything better.
That sounds great!
We made this last weekend. Delicious!