Boxty

Name: Boxty
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 2 medium potatoes, peeled and grated; 2 medium potatoes, boiled and mashed; 1 cup plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp salt; 1 cup buttermilk; 2 tbsp butter; sour cream and smoked salmon to serve, optional

Traditional Irish potato pancakes — half grated raw potato, half mashed. Squeezing the grated raw potato dry in a cloth before mixing stops the batter turning watery and lets the pancakes fry up properly crisp instead of steaming in their own moisture.

Total time

40 min

Prep

20 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Irish

vegetarian

Ingredients

2medium potatoes, peeled and grated

2medium potatoes, boiled and mashed

1 cupplain flour

1 tspbaking powder

1 tspsalt

1 cupbuttermilk

2 tbspbutter

sour cream and smoked salmonto serve, optional

Instructions

Squeeze grated raw potato dry in a cloth.

Mix grated and mashed potato together. Add flour, baking powder and salt.

Stir in enough buttermilk to make a thick batter.

Fry tablespoon-sized patties in butter over medium heat 3-4 minutes per side.

Serve immediately with sour cream and smoked salmon.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

205

Protein

5.6g

Fat

6.6g

Carbs

30.5g

Fiber

1.3g

Sodium

660mg

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