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What to eat with bubble and squeakīubble and squeak is delicious topped with a fried or poached egg. However, if you’re making it from scratch then there’s really no reason why you couldn’t make it for dinner – I know I do! These golden brown crispy potato patties are great at any time of the day. When do you eat bubble and squeak?īubble and squeak is a terrific way to use up dinner leftovers, so it most often appears for breakfast, brunch or lunch. You need a well greased hot pan to make sure your bubble and squeak gets a lovely crispy golden crust. You can fry them in vegetable oil, but for a really delicious treat try adding a dollop of butter to the pan. I was always told that the name bubble and squeak comes from the sound of these tasty potato cakes as they are frying. I’ve had great results with carrots, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and even green beans! What’s in a name? If you don’t have leftover cabbage you can certainly substitute whatever other veg you have to hand – simply mash or chop finely and add to the potato. I typically cook these up especially, but as with the potato, you can also use leftovers. Hence, left-unders! Extra vegīubble and squeak usually contains soft fried onions and cabbage. You don’t want your patties falling to pieces in the pan!īut since these potatoes aren’t technically leftovers, I’ve had to come up with another name. You need to let the cooked potatoes cool down before you make them into bubble and squeak though, otherwise your mixture will be too soft.

That’s why for this recipe, I cooked potato on purpose to recycle into bubble and squeak.

They are a wonderfully British way to celebrate Chanukah! Left-undersĪlthough bubble and squeak is traditionally made with leftovers, you can’t always rely on there being any! Whenever I cook up a huge pan of potatoes or veg, with half a thought towards leftovers for tomorrow’s table, I always find that my family polishes off the lot. Since these two potato pancakes are already pretty close cousins, it wasn’t much work to hybridise them to make bubble and squeak latkes! These crispy carb-based patties combine the best parts of both to create a savoury and satisfying side dish that’s perfect for breakfast, brunch, or any time of day. The mixture is then either formed into patties and fried, or else cooked up as one big frying-pan-size potato cake which can be sliced into wedges. The spuds are mashed and seasoned well, then mixed with fried onions and cabbage, and any other shredded or chopped vegetables. The Brits have been at it too! The evocatively named bubble and squeak is a crispy fried potato cake flavoured with onions, cabbage or other vegetables.īubble and squeak is traditionally a thrifty dish made to use up leftover cooked potatoes. Ashkenazi Jews are not the only people who thought of making fried potato pancakes.