Festive cocktails
Toast the festive season with our Christmas cocktail ideas, including sloe gin fizz and spiced negronis
Potato and spring onion pancakes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 200g mashed potato, chilled (make up a pack or use leftovers)
- 50g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 small egg, beaten
- 100ml buttermilk
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- 4 spring onions, finely chopped, plus extra to serve
- 30g parmesan, finely grated
- for frying butter
TO SERVE
- 8 slices pancetta, grilled
- 4 soft-boiled eggs
- 1 avocado, sliced
Method
- STEP 1
Put the potato in a bowl and mix in the flour, baking powder and egg. Stir in the buttermilk, milk, spring onions and parmesan, and season really well.
- STEP 2
Heat a frying pan and melt a knob of butter. Spoon in the batter to make small, 10cm-wide pancakes. When small bubbles appear, flip the pancakes and cook until golden. Serve with the pancetta, soft-boiled eggs, avocado slices, and a sprinkle of spring onions.
