Sweet Potato Croquettes with Cheese and Bacon

Name: Sweet Potato Croquettes with Cheese and Bacon
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 450 grams Japanese sweet potatoes (medium size); 3 slice Bacon; 70 grams Processed cheese; 50 grams Butter; 1 Salt and pepper; 1 Egg (for the croquette filling); 1 Egg (for the coating); 1 Bread (strong) flour (or cake flour if you don't have any); 50 grams Sliced almonds; 1 Panko; 1 Oil for deep frying; 1 Tomato ketchup (to serve with the croquettes)

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We harvested a ton of sweet potatoes, so I tried making some of them into croquettes instead of using regular potatoes. It turned out quite delicious and got rave reviews!

-The almond slices will burn if the heat is too strong, so be careful.
-You can enjoy the croquettes with 2 kinds of batter. FInd out which one you like best! For 4 servings (12 croquettes). Recipe by Ponie

We harvested a ton of sweet potatoes, so I tried making some of them into croquettes instead of using regular potatoes. It turned out quite delicious and got rave reviews!

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

We harvested a ton of sweet potatoes, so I tried making some of them into croquettes instead of using regular potatoes. It turned out quite delicious and got rave reviews!

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Ingredients

4 servings

450 gramsJapanese sweet potatoes (medium size)
3 sliceBacon
70 gramsProcessed cheese
50 gramsButter
1Salt and pepper
1Egg (for the croquette filling)
1Egg (for the coating)
1Bread (strong) flour (or cake flour if you don't have any)
50 gramsSliced almonds
1Panko
1Oil for deep frying
1Tomato ketchup (to serve with the croquettes)

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Steps

1

Cut the sweet potatoes into 3 cm thick slices. Place into a bowl of water and drain, then steam in a steamer for 20 minutes.
2

If a bamboo skewer goes through a piece easily they are ready. If you don't have a steamer, you can microwave the potatoes.
3

Take the skin off the sweet potatoes while they're still hot. Put in a bowl with a little salt and pepper and 50 g of butter.
4

Mash up the sweet potato while it's still hot with a potato masher. The butter will melt immediately too if the potato is still hot.
5

Heat up a frying pan over medium heat without any oil. Cut the bacon up into 1 cm pieces and stir-fry quickly until lightly browned.
6

Add the bacon and cheese, that's been diced into 1 cm pieces, to the mashed potato and mix well. It's better at this point if the potato has cooled down a bit so that the cheese won't melt.
7

Add an egg to the bowl and mix well.
8

Divide the mixture and form into balls.
9

Coat the balls in bread flour (or cake flour), egg, sliced almonds or panko.
10

Put some oil into a frying pan, heat to 180°C and shallow fry the croquettes. I prefer to shallow fry them and roll them around since it saves on oil.
11

If you fry them in a little oil, they turn out like this. Make sure not to let them burn and roll them around as they cook.
12

They should have a nice golden brown finish. Drain away the excess oil on paper towels.
13

They're delicious with some ketchup. Give it a try!