Recipe

Potato patties with vegetable ragoût

Ragoût, which comes from the French verb, ragoûter, meaning `to stimulate the appetite', does exactly that in this dish.

  • 1 hr cooking
  • Serves 4
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Ingredients

Potato patties with vegetable ragoût
  • 1 kilogram coliban potatoes, peeled, chopped coarsely
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 brown onion (80g), chopped finely
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 egg, beaten lightly
  • 1汤匙切碎的新鲜平叶粗帕尔斯ley
  • 50 gram butter
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil, extra
Vegetable ragoût
  • 30 gram butter
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 brown onion (80g), chopped coarsely
  • 2 stalks celery (300g), trimmed, chopped coarsely
  • 1 zucchini (120g), chopped coarsely
  • 150 gram button mushrooms, quartered
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) dry white wine
  • 1 cup (260g) bottled tomato pasta sauce
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) vegetable stock
  • 1/2 cup (75g) seeded kalamata olives
  • 2 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Method

Potato patties with vegetable ragoût
  • 1
    Boil, steam or microwave potato until just tender; drain. Mash roughly in large bowl.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, heat oil in small frying pan; cook onion and garlic, stirring, until onion softens.
  • 3
    Add onion mixture to potato with egg and parsley; stir to combine. Refrigerate 1 hour.
  • 4
    Meanwhile, make vegetable ragoût. Heat butter and oil in medium saucepan; cook garlic, onion and celery, stirring, until vegetables soften. Add zucchini and mushrooms; cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add wine; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add sauce, stock and olives; bring to the boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, about 10 minutes or until vegetables are cooked through. Remove from heat; stir in parsley.
  • 5
    Using floured hands, shape potato mixture into eight patties. Heat butter and extra oil in large frying pan; cook patties, in batches, until browned both sides. Serve patties with vegetable ragoût.

Notes

This mixture is quite soft to handle. You can also use lasoda or nicola potatoes for this recipe.