It's time for another Secret Recipe! The Secret Recipe Club is a group of bloggers that secretly browse another member's blog and cook one of their recipes. We can change the recipe if we want, but we can't tell the recipe owner that we're cooking their recipe until the day of the reveal.
This month I was assigned "Enriching Your Kid". Shirley is a clinical physiologist, and focuses on making food that is both healthy for kids, and that they will actually eat! What a challenge!
The recipe I picked this month are Mozzarella Cheese Cutlets. I bought mozzarella for this recipe... I swear I did... but it had disappeared when I went to make it! I did have some wonderful Smoked Habernero White Cheddar from Beehive Cheese, so I used that. I loved the results of using this cheese. It added spice and dimension to the potato sticks.
I actually ended up only frying a few sticks, as we tasted the "mash" and decided that we liked it that way better. Either way is good, and I'll include both recipes here.
Potato Cheese Sticks
adapted from Enriching Your Kid
1/4 cup Smoked Habernero White Cheddar (or Mozzarella), diced fine, or grated
2 large potatoes
1/2 teas ground pepper
1/2 teas oregano
1 teas cumin
1/4 teas chili powder (these are not spicy, promise!)
2 Tb chopped fresh coriander or cilantro
salt to taste
breadcrumbs or panko to coat
Oil for frying OR
2 Tb butter for mashed potatoes and 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk
Wash the potatoes, and poke the skin with a fork. Microwave at 5 minute intervals until soft. Let cool until you can handle them; peel; and chop finely.
Mix in the rest of the ingredients (except for Panko) and mix well. I used my pastry cutter to mix it all together.
Scoop a spoonful of the potato mixture and shape into a rectangle or circular pattie. Dip in the Panko to coat.
Heat oil until hot. Drop potato sticks into oil, flipping once, until browned. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. Eat hot!
Mashed Potatoes
Cook the potatoes and add other ingredients as outlined above. (I do not include Panko in the mashed version!) Add butter and milk, and mix, or beat, potatoes until they are light and fluffy.
