Ingredients
3 large potatoes
1 bundle(?) of spinach/swiss chard
3 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp salt
(2 tbsp shredded cheese)
- Wash then boil the spinach/swiss chard, then chop into small pieces. Both the leaves and the stalks can be used. Lightly squeeze out some of the water, and set aside.
- Wash and peel the potatoes, then grate into a medium-large bowl.
- Add the spinach/swiss chard to the bowl, along with the salt and flour. (The original recipe calls for the cheese to be added as well, but I actually skipped the cheese altogether and thought it tasted fine.) If the mixture is too watery, then adjust by adding more flour.
The other option would be to remove some of the water that the potatoes generate before adding the rest of the ingredients, but this water contains a lot of useful starch, so this is not ideal.
- After everything is mixed in the bowl, shape them into small pancakes, and pan-fry with a small amount of olive oil until brown.
Thanks for this--chard is actually something I have a reasonable amount of (it grows in a community vegetable patch) so it's great to have something to do with it! This makes quite a few pancakes--I suppose that was predictable from the number of potatoes, but I wanted to see. Also I added some cheese I had--goat gouda--and it was pretty good.
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