This traditional Bubble and Squeak recipe is the breakfast I'd choose if I had to pick my favorite. It's comfort food at it's best: crispy edged potatoes mixed with buttery veggies, fried (or baked) and then topped with a poached egg (or two).
Bubble And Squeak For Breakfast
Is this a breakfast recipe? A dinner or lunch recipe? I don't know, and it doesn't matter a huge amount. It's properly delicious and I make it on a pretty regular basis.
I tend to make a batch of this and we'll have it a couple of times through the week if there's time, or cook it up for an easy dinner. Either way, everyones happy. Bubble and squeak's an easy way to get vegetables into the kids without a fuss, and this recipes gives them a potion of their daily veggies before they've even got on the school bus. Nice :)
Bubble & Squeak Cakes
Bubble and Squeak cakes are the way I serve this most often, especially if we're having it for breakfast. I make the patties just a little bigger than the poached egg and then sit the poached egg on top of it. Then when the kids cut the egg open, they get the delicious runny yolk on top of the bubble & squeak cake. It's like self-saucing, which is a hit in this house, be in with breakfast, lunch or dinner!
You can make the patties what ever size you like, as long as it fits in a frying pan. Bigger patties are harder to turn and tend to break up, but even if they do, it's fried potato: you won't get any complaints if the patties a little broken up.
Bubble & Squeak In The Oven
Sometimes we have this for dinner, in which case I prefer to cook this in the oven, for the simple reason that everyone has a bit more at dinner time, and having a big family, it would take too long to fry the patties individually. Just spoon the whole batch into a tin and bake for 30 minutes on a medium heat.
(Tip/ make sure you fluff up the top of the potato before it goes into the oven so you still get the crispy potato bits. There's a chance you'll get complaints if you forget this step!)
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How To Make Bubble & Squeak
Bubble & Squeak started life as a way to use up leftovers from the night before's dinner. You'd usually have a potato of some sort left over, mashed, roasted or boiled. Then you'd take the leftover veggies and mix them with the potato. Then you'd fry it all up, and have it for breakfast the next day.
But, like many recipes that were originally meant to just use up the leftovers, Bubble & Squeak has taken on a life of it's own and is now made as a dish in it's own right.
I would say that if you've got roasted veg left over, or a few roast potatoes from a roast going spare, use them for this recipe. Oven baked veggies add a little extra to this, as do a few roasties, but if you've not got them and want to get a batch of this made, it's just as delicious if the veg haven't been roasted first.
Bubble & Squeak Recipe
Ingredients
Makes 12 patties
- 6 Floury Potatoes - Mashed
- 1 Carrot - Sliced or julienned
- ½ Cup Cabbage - I use Savoy Cabbage
- ½ Onion - Medium
- Salt & pepper to season
- Butter - 2 x small knob
- Olive oil for frying (optional)
- 6 eggs - poached
Process
- Peel and boil your potatoes until fully cooked
- While the potatoes are boiling, fry your vegetables on a low heat, with a knob of butter. You want them to be fully cooked through, if they start to brown as they fry, all the better!
- Once the potatoes are fully cooked, drain and put back in the pan ready to mash. Season, add the remaining butter and mash until the potatoes completely smooth
- Mix in your veggies, and then let the whole mixture cool down
- If you want to save the mixture for the week, once it's totally cooled down, cover and put in the fridge. If you're cooking it straight away, once cooled, either transfer the mixture to an oven dish like this one, or shape your patties ready for frying
- For frying - heat a small amount of olive oil in a frying pan and add your patties once the oils hot. Fry on each side for 2 minutes until crispy on the outside and hot all the way through. Serve each patty with a poached egg on top
- For oven baking - Rake the top of the dish with a fork to spike the potato so it can crisp up. Oven bake for 25-30 minutes. Serve immediately
Bubble & Squeak Recipe To Print & Keep
Traditional Bubble & Squeak Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 Large Potatoes, peeled
- 1 Carrot sliced, julienned or grated
- ½ Onion Finely sliced
- ½ Cup Savoy cabbage Finely sliced
- Salt & pepper To taste
- 2 knob almond butter To taste
- Olive oil For frying
- 6/12 Eggs Poached
Instructions
- Peel and boil your potatoes until fully cooked
- While the potatoes are boiling, fry your vegetables on a low heat, with a knob of butter. You want them to be fully cooked through, if they start to brown as they fry, all the better!
- Once the potatoes are fully cooked, drain and put back in the pan ready to mash. Season, add the remaining butter and mash until the potatoes completely smooth
- Mix in your veggies, and then let the whole mixture cool down
- If you want to save the mixture for the week, once it's totally cooled down, cover and put in the fridge. If you're cooking it straight away, once cooled, either transfer the mixture to an oven dish like this one, or shape your patties ready for frying
- For frying - heat a small amount of olive oil in a frying pan and add your patties once the oils hot. Fry on each side for 2 minutes until crispy on the outside and hot all the way through. Serve each patty with a poached egg on top
- For oven baking - Rake the top of the dish with a fork to spike the potato so it can crisp up. Oven bake for 25-30 minutes. Serve immediately
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