Hi everyone,
This recipe is made from a few basic ingredients and is very easy to make. It is a recipe from my childhood in the Czech Republic. My mom used to make this for us when we were kids. People used to make these simple, but wholesome meals with the ingredients that were available and inexpensive. We enjoyed the potato cakes yesterday for dinner and they were delicious. I have for you here a step by step, easy to follow guide with pictures so that you can try it at home. Please give me your feedback on this recipe and let me know any interesting variations that you come up with.
Enjoy,
Zuzana.
For this recipe you will need the following ingredients:
3 large potatoes, 1 egg, rolled oats (about 3 handfuls), green onions, salt, pepper, ground nutmeg, tomatoes, and cheese ( I used cheddar)
Cook the potatoes in a pot as they are, and then peel them when they are cooked. It’s a good idea to let them cool down before you try to peel them – they can get too hot to handle.
Grate the potatoes on the smallest grating surface.
Crack the egg and beat it.
Pour the egg over the grated potatoes.
Be generous with the salt and pepper. Not too generous – you know what I mean :)
Sprinkle the ground nutmeg over the surface of the mixture.
Cut the green onions in half and leave the green ends for garnish. Chop both halves in small pieces.
Add the bottom halve of the onion into the bowl with the potatoes.
Knead the mixture with your hands adding handfuls of oat as you go. Keep adding more oats until the dough is firm. I used about 3 handfuls of rolled oats.
Form the dough into a firm loaf shape.
Slice the loaf and form round cakes out of the slices. Try to keep the cakes all the same size. They should fit in the palm of your hand. Don’t make them too thick. Mine were about 1 cm max.
Place your cake patties on a dry pan and bake them on both sides until they are lightly brown and become crispy on the surface. Because you are using a dry pan you have to pay attention so that you don’t burn them or make them stick.
Place the cakes in a dry baking pan and then cover each of them with one slice of tomato and cheese. I also sometimes use mushrooms instead of tomatoes. In this recipe I used cheddar cheese.
Place the pan into the preheated oven and bake at 230°C until the cheese melts over the top of each cake.
You can see what the cakes look like when they’re done in the video. Enjoy this taste of Czech Republic and let me know how it turns out for you.
I made this tonight and I must say, I did not follow the recipe exactly (I didn’t have a shredder, so I chopped the potatoes into small small pieces, mashed them slightly, and went from there) but it came out pretty spectacularly. Thank you for the amazing recipes.
Unless i haven’t found it but i would like to see an example of a meal layout plan? A recipe is great and knowing that corn is good for you etc but the single most important element in getting a healthy lean body is your diet.
i dont know if im out of line or if there is somewhere on this site that has that , im just making an observation.
I think that Zuzana is incredible, the workouts are fantastic for sureeee, but i would like to see an example of a meal plan for one day. Probably it would be 5 or 6 small high protein meals im guessing??
Any thoughts?
JP
Ahoj Zuzko,
na youtube jsem narazila na tvoje videa a moc se mi líbí tvůj způsob cvičení. Z těchto stránek mi došlo, že jsi bydlela (či bydlíš) v České Republice a proto ti taky píšu. Jen mě zajímalo, jak dlouho ti trvalo, než jsi dosáhla této postavy? Určitě tě to stálo hodně úsilí a námahy. Já bohužel nemám takovou vůli, anebo jsem spíš lenoch a vlastně ani nevěřím, že bych mohla mít tak pěknou postavu. Budu ráda, když mi odepíseš na mail.. Měj se krásně a přeju šťastné vánoční svátky. Monika
Love these hot potato’s and my body also :-)
Keep up the good work Zuzana!!!
Greetz
Valesca
PS: Happy Holidays!!!
I just discovered you on youtube(I was searching “pull ups”) I can’t wait to try this recipe. You have really gone above and beyond with your video demonstrations. I especially love how you go step by step in preparing your meals and showing what a healthy portion/serving size looks like. Thank you very much! You should have your own television show!
This looks delicious! I will try it and maybe make a meal out of it. I will let you know what modifications I make.
This recipe looks delicious, very simple to make & it will be my first Czech Republic dish ever made and tasted. Today I chanced upon this web site and hope to go through it more thoroughly! It’s very generous of you sharing your knowledge! Thank you in love & light.
I tried to make these but i must have done something wrong. it never felt dough-y to me. it was still sticky when i made it into a loaf and when i tried to cut it, it wouldn’t cut nicely like the picture….
I have celiac, so I am gluten intolerant. Most oats in the U.S. are processed with wheat, which I can’t eat. Do you have any other suggestions to perhaps substitute for the oats? I can eat other flowers such as rice, tapioca, corn, and potato if that helps.
Thanks so much. You are such an inspiration.
Hey Zuzanna,
how many of those hot potatoes did you eat for one meal?
You can just cut one piece to cook (I don’t know how many you want to eat) where it’s “loaf shape” and store it in refrigator (the other piece) for later.
At first, I didn’t really like it. There was no taste. ONly potato. I was lilke…maybe I didn’t put enough salt, pepper and nutmeg. With your “generous” not sure what you mean by that. Or maybe I put a lot of oats. I don’t how many I put it because you say until it firms.
Today, I made it again. This time lol it was nice. I made sure I put enough salt, pepper and nutmeg than before (nooot too much), that it crispy and all that. I’ve taste it and, it was better…. a lot better. lol
Though, I’m not fan of potato (I prefer the other one….it’s not potato but it taste like one…only that it has more “Glucid”. It calls “yuca”) but I did it for my nephew. He loooves potatos and he was like “It’s good” and put all in his mouth suddenly. lol
My nephew is obese though and I wanted to encourage him to eat healthy food. Like myself.
Thanks a lot! >-)
I just made these potato cakes yesterday and they were so good!
I ended up needing a lot more than 3 handfuls of oats though. I think I used 5 or 6 handfuls. Yummy!
I was just wondering how many of these potatoe cakes we can eat in a sitting for it to still be healthy?
Hmm…looks like an easy dinner or lunch awesome recipe.