I’ve decided to work on my pouch of recipes to try and had some leftover mashed potatoes so I made these mashed potato croquettes from Bon Appetite. Simply put, this is mashed potatoes balled, breaded, and fried. Simple concept but I wasn’t sure how it would work. Bon appetite tends not to let me down when I try a recipe.

As I mentioned, I had leftover mashed potatoes I wanted to use up and the recipe just says to mix the mash with 2 egg yolks, some parm, chives, and flour. I balled them and chilled them for 2 hours, breaded them, and pan-fried them for 3-4mins.

They turned out pretty well though of course, they aren’t super ball-y and got flat frying in a pan but this doesn’t really affect the flavor so it’s all good.

While the recipe worked out well, in the end it wasn’t really worth the work of pan frying. I like mashed potatoes as they are and this added too much breading and a grainy texture. Fun experiment but I think in the end, I’ll stick to just plain old (chunky) smashed potatoes.