Smashed Potato-Cheddar Cakes with Warm Cran-Apple Sauce

Name: Smashed Potato-Cheddar Cakes with Warm Cran-Apple Sauce
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters apple cider; 3 Tbsps brown sugar; 4 servings Butter pats; 473 milliliters grated Cheddar; 4 servings Coarse salt and pepper; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 2 teaspoons lemon juice; 4 servings Water or milk, as needed to thin potatoes; 0 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg, eyeball it; 4 servings Paprika, to garnish, optional; 710 milliliters smashed or leftover mashed potatoes; 3 Golden or Red Delicious apples, peeled and chopped; 2 scallions, finely chopped; 4 servings Drizzle vegetable oil; 237 milliliters prepared whole berry cranberry sauce, store bought or homemade

Smashed Potato-Cheddar Cakes with Warm Cran-Apple Sauce is a gluten free recipe with 4 servings. This recipe covers 31% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 27g of protein, 46g of fat, and a total of 872 calories. If you have paprika, drizzle vegetable oil, lemon juice, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 40 minutes.

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Place apples, lemon juice, cider, sugar and cinnamon in a medium pot over medium high heat and cook down into a thick sauce, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes.

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Lemon Juice

Cinnamon

Apple

Sauce

Sugar

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Pot

Remove from heat and stir in cranberry sauce to warm through and combine.

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Cranberry Sauce

Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.

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Frying Pan

Place potatoes and water or milk in a bowl and cover with plastic. Microwave 2 minutes on high to slightly reheat and loosen potatoes. Stir them up with the liquid to make them workable again.

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Potato

Water

Milk

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Microwave

Bowl

Combine cheese, scallions and nutmeg with potatoes and adjust salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Green Onions

Potato

Cheese

Nutmeg

Add a drizzle of vegetable oil and a pat of butter to your preheated skillet then score the potatoes and cheese mixture in half. Using the first half of the potatoes, make 6 (3-inch across and 1/2-inch thick) potato cakes and space them evenly around the pan. Cook the cakes until golden all over, 3 minutes per side, then remove and garnish with paprika, if using, and repeat with remaining ingredients.

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Vegetable Oil