The whole family will love these! They are a great toddler food as the veg is hidden if you have fussy eaters and are soft and easy to eat. The thing I always do when making a roast dinner, is make double the amount of potatoes and vegetables that I need, so I can make these bubble & squeak cakes the next day. Tender meat, crispy roast potatoes, a Yorkshire pudding, oodles of veg, like roasted carrots and green beans, then lashings of gravy! I’m salivating just thinking about it. I think a roast dinner has to be one of my favourite ever meals.

Since a roast dinner (often involving roast beef or lamb alongside roasted or mashed potatoes and other vegetables) is common on Sundays in England, this dish is a classic Monday meal.A great way to use up those roast dinner leftovers, these Bubble & Squeak Cakes are made with leftover potatoes and vegetables and are also egg and gluten free!

This dish can be served as a hearty breakfast, often topped with an egg.Īlternatively, it can be a main meal in itself or served as a side to some leftover roast meat. When would you typically eat bubble and squeak? (In Switzerland, Potato pancakes are called rosti.) These make a great component to a traditional fried breakfast (alongside bacon, sausages, fried tomato, and egg). Rumbledethumps is generally made as a casserole so that the top crisps up.Īnother popular ways to use leftover potatoes are to make potato pancakes or potato farl as they are known in Scotland. Swede can also be added, which is a common vegetable in Scotland (although less popular now). Like colcannon, this dish is made with mashed potatoes and usually cabbage or kale and onion. There is also a Scottish dish that is similar to bubble and squeak called rumbledethumps. Similar recipes to use leftover vegetables and potatoes

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