Speaking of traditional, once the bubble and squeak browns on the bottom, you’d normally loosen the sides, hold a large plate over the pan and flip it over. Just add salt and roughly mash before using. So don’t peel the potatoes if you’re cooking them from scratch. But I find that since the bubble and squeak gets pan-fried first, the skins give it great texture. This is completely fine, traditional even. If using leftover mash you wouldn’t have the skins left on. Not like this recipe is hard to begin with but this makes things doubly easy. I plan my meals in advance, so if I’m making this dish down the week I’ll cook a few extra potatoes and stash them away. Maybe it IS a good name to sneak some veggies into your kid’s food after all! As long as you have a ratio of at least 50:50 potato to veg, it’ll hold as it cooks. I haven’t tried this but I’ve seen numerous recipes that use other vegetables too – carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peas. If you can’t find kale, Chinese cabbage would be a good substitute. I made this recipe using kale and it holds up really well to the slightly prolonged cooking time (spinach wouldn’t work I think for this reason). Other than potatoes, your veg of choice, onions, butter, and a sturdy pan, you don’t need much else to dish it up in 45 minutes. Frittatas are predominantly eggs with cheese and some other bits and bobs (think a giant omelette), while a bubble and squeak uses no eggs it’s basically a ginormous pan-fried vegetable cutlet/patty. In fact the similarity between the two ends there. It looks like a frittata but it’s definitely not a frittata. I don’t know at what point the meat was jettisoned from it, but nowadays it’s made using leftover mashed potatoes (often from a Sunday roast) and vegetables (usually savoy cabbage and/or greens). And the name came about because it would bubble and squeak as it cooked together. Bubble and squeak originated in the UK and was a dish of cabbage and fried meat. Unfortunately though-at least for those of us that enjoy quirky food names: oat-thappams, anyone?-it’s pretty straightforward. I know ‘bubble and squeak’ sounds like a made-up name to sneak veggies into your toddler’s lunch. Posted April 20 by Kirthana Kumar under Breakfast, Brunch, Gluten free, Main course, Side dishes, Vegetarian
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