Sweet Potato cakes

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Cuisine: Middle Eastern | Course Type: Appetizers

(4 reviews)

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Recipe Review

A fantastic reinvention of a sweet potato! Crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, with a tangy sauce that cuts the sweetness of the potato, it had even the sweet potato haters in the house rethinking their opinion of the vegetable!

I had all of the ingredients on hand except for the Greek yogurt for the sauce, but draining some 1% fat plain yogurt in a cheesecloth-lined sieve did the trick. The potato mixture is very sticky so I used an ice cream scoop to portion the dough and an oiled spatula to flatten it; my pancakes were ~3" and the recipe made 17 of them.

The flavour of the cake and the accompanying sauce deserves a 5-star rating. I've given only 4 as I found the cooking instructions questionable: cooking 6 min per side in butter over medium heat seems excessive and would result in burnt butter (and pancakes). Mine cooked in about 3 min per side; I used clarified butter to avoid the burnt butter problem but I think a combination of reg. butter and oil would work also.

Can't wait to try more recipes from this book!

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