The Potato Patties are a main course with ground meat and boiled potatoes invented by Little Chef Gianluca together with his Grandma. Why am I talking about them today? I hinted through the social profiles last week that a New Project involving me and my blog Le Ricette di Bea has begun. So I recommend subscribing to the blog’s social profiles so you don’t miss any hints, content, or new recipes that will follow in the coming months. You will find the box with the links below the recipe.
Cook with Me comes from the desire to open the doors to my home, my kitchen, to play and experiment with the guests who will follow each week. Every week, for one day, I will have a guest in my kitchen to prepare a Special Recipe!
It could be your own signature dish as Gianluca decided with his Potato Patties, or a typical recipe from your country of origin. With my friend Isa we actually prepared, for the pilot episode of this program, the Pao de Queijo typical Brazilian cheese rolls that are truly delicious. If you missed the episode with the video or the recipe I suggest catching up because it was so funny, we really enjoyed recording the recipe.
Wednesday at 10 we were ready to record the video recipe of the Potato Patties which you can find below or on the YouTube Channel of Le Ricette di Bea. I suggest subscribing and activating the Bell for Notifications so you don’t miss any new video recipe from Cook with Me!
With the Oscar-Worthy Direction of Mom Daniela, we prepared this main course with ground meat and boiled potatoes, they are breaded patties baked in the oven. A simple and quick recipe to make, perfect for children, as you see it was invented by a 12-year-old boy together with his Grandma, who can prepare it with you. So I invite you to try this meat dish and then let me know in the comments if you like it, Gianluca cares a lot! We are both curious to know if you enjoyed this recipe!
Below I leave you other vegetable burger recipes, with meat or peaches, that I have prepared over the years. Each link is clickable and will take you directly to the recipe you choose to read. Now let’s move on to the Potato Patties Recipe by Gianluca!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Rest time: 10 Minutes
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4People
- Cooking methods: Stove, Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 536.28 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 40.04 (g) of which sugars 2.94 (g)
- Proteins 21.20 (g)
- Fat 32.09 (g) of which saturated 12.03 (g)of which unsaturated 18.28 (g)
- Fibers 3.35 (g)
- Sodium 1,462.63 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 200 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for Gianluca’s Potato Patties
- 14 oz potatoes
- 14 oz mixed ground meat
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 pinch salt
- to taste breadcrumbs
- 1 pinch pepper
- to taste chopped parsley (or rosemary)
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons cheese (grated)
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Tools to Prepare the Potato Patties Main Course
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Fork
- 1 Cutting board
- 1 Peeler
- 1 Knife
- 1 Pot
- 1 Colander
- 1 Oven
- 1 Baking tray
- 1 Parchment paper
- 1 Plate
Don’t be intimidated by the 40 minutes indicated for cooking time: 20 minutes are necessary to boil the potatoes, and the other 20 minutes are for the oven cooking of the Potato Patties.
Steps for Gianluca’s Potato Patties Recipe
As you may have noticed from the video recipe, this preparation is very simple, you can indeed prepare the Potato Patties with your children or grandchildren, being careful during the first phase where you use a knife and peeler. For the rest, let them have fun, get messy and play as my little guest Gianluca did. I found the ground meat scattered everywhere, but seeing him super happy was a real satisfaction.
Let’s start by bringing a large pot of water to a boil with a good pinch of salt. Then let’s take care of the potatoes. We will wash the potatoes under running water from the sink and then dry them with a towel or some kitchen paper towels. Place them on a cutting board and take the peeler.
Remove the skin and then use a knife to cut them into small cubes of about 1 or 2 inches. This will greatly reduce the cooking time of the potatoes. Place the potato cubes on a plate. When the water reaches a boil, we will boil the potatoes for about 20 minutes. Before draining, test with a fork; if it penetrates easily without much force, they’re ready.
Transfer them to a bowl with high sides and mash them well with a fork. From here on, you can involve the children in the preparation. There are no more knife or other dangers. Indeed, Gianluca mashed the potatoes into puree, added the ground meat, and proceeded with preparing his own invention of Potato Patties.
Continue the preparation after letting the potatoes cool for a few minutes. Add the ground meat, egg yolk, and a pinch of salt. Mix quickly, as Gianluca says: “the potatoes should no longer be visible because they must be well mixed with the meat!”.
Preheat the oven to 350, maximum 375 degrees Fahrenheit. In a small plate, pour some breadcrumbs, in my case nice and coarse from Grandma Sandrina, the official supplier of breadcrumbs and grated cheese for our family. We will use it for the crispy coating of today’s potato patties. We won’t add any other ingredients to our version because we fully respected Gianluca’s Recipe.
As indicated, however, in the list of optional ingredients you will find: grated cheese, pepper, nutmeg, finely chopped parsley, or other ingredients you prefer. Remember that they should all be added at the bowl mixing stage of the ground meat with the boiled potatoes so that they incorporate better into the mixture. As my personal suggestion, I can tell you that I would have added pepper and nutmeg, and also cheese. For the herbs, I would have chosen dried and already chopped rosemary. Let us know in the comments if you try any of these variations.
After having worked all the ingredients in the bowl, we are ready to create the potato and meat patties. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking tray in front of us. With hands, take small portions of the mixture, about 3 to 4 ounces per potato patty. Gianluca’s are the largest; children don’t yet have experience in weighing by eye. Let them do it, they are surely having fun and will be proud of their preparation.
Roll each potato patty in the plate with breadcrumbs without adding anything else, so no egg, flour, or additional ingredient. Then place the patties, as you coat them in breadcrumbs, directly on the tray. We made 8 potato patties, 3 large and the other 5 smaller.
Bake them for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Turn the potato patties during the cooking time after about 10 minutes. This will prevent them from getting dark on only one side. We recommend serving the boiled potato and ground meat patties hot, possibly with ketchup or mayonnaise or other sauces your children and grandchildren like. As Gianluca suggests, a good side of french fries wouldn’t be bad. In the coming months, however, we will prepare together the side dish he has devised for this recipe. So subscribe not to miss it! You will have to wait until August, though, when he will be back on vacation with Mom Daniela.
I just have to thank my Guest and Chef Gianluca for deciding to share his recipe with us, I hope he enjoyed himself as much as I did in Cook with Me! A warm thanks to Mom Daniela, who was super helpful with the direction and her off-camera instructions. I am so happy to have had them both for this wonderful experience, a moment of sharing, laughs, and growth for all three of us!
To you, I just wish you enjoy your meal and remind you that I look forward to seeing you every day in the group and on the Facebook fan page of Le Ricette di Bea with the Recipe of the Day and many more food and non-food contents always live from my kitchen!!!
Storage and Variations of Gianluca’s Potato Patties Recipe
As anticipated, the possible variations to Gianluca’s potato patties recipe are many, all to be experimented with since Gianluca’s version is very simple. Let us know which of the various ingredient suggestions you will incorporate into this recipe!
For storage, we can tell you to let the potato patties cool completely, then place them in a plastic container with a lid and store them in the refrigerator if you plan to consume them within a couple of days. Otherwise, you can freeze them in freezer bags, taking care to separate them with small pieces of parchment paper inserted between each one to prevent them from sticking to each other and making them easier to separate later.
