Everyone loves a big holiday meal. And most people love the leftovers. But it always seems that the one food item that lasts the longest is those mashed potatoes. They seem to linger around even as all the other food is disappearing. A lot of times they just do not get eaten and have to be thrown away. Maybe what you need is a good potato pancake recipe.

People may love them the next day, but after that, they may start wishing for something else, especially once the gravy is gone! A great way to use up those extra potatoes is to turn them into something entirely new-pancakes. You may find your family wishing there were leftovers of these.

To start the ball rolling, be sure you have on hand all of the necessary ingredients. You will need vegetable oil (canola, corn or a blend works just fine), salt and pepper to taste, flour, an egg, milk, onion, and of course, those mashed potatoes. For a different taste, you can substitute bacon drippings for the vegetable oil.

For four pancakes you need 2 cups of potatoes. Mix them with the egg, 1/2 cup of flour, 1/4 of milk, and 3 tablespoons of diced onion. More or less onion can be used depending on how much your family likes onion taste. After all the ingredients are well mixed, form into 4 equally sized patties. It may be easiest to form them on wax paper or tin foil as they are usually sticky.

Coat a hot (but not smoking) frying pan or electric skillet with vegetable oil or bacon drippings. Fry each patty for 3 minutes on each side, pressing down on them occasionally with a spatula. To prevent the spatula from sticking, first spay it with a cooking spray. Pancakes are ready when they turn a golden brown. Make sure the insides are hot and that the onions are tender.

Try getting creative if you like, by adding to the mixture bacon pieces, shredded cheese or anything else you think your family will like. Sprinkle them with a little salt and pepper to taste and serve. You can also top them off with additional things like sour cream, butter, gravy, melted cheese, hot sauce or ketchup. These side dishes are good compliments to chicken, pork beef or fish. Or they also make tasty appetizers.

This is the mashed potato variety of pancakes. You may also want to someday try making the German style potato pancake recipe which calls for grated potatoes. With these, you will get a pancake similar in texture to hashed browns.

Find lots and lots of recipes like this recipe for potato pancakes on Andrews pancake site. If you like you pancakes made with vegetables and salty you can also try ham and cheese pancake recipe. It’s delicious and none of the recipes are hard to make!

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