Wonderfully crisp, tender, and just melt-in-your mouth amazing. Can be served as an appetizer, side dish or even a light main dish! 

Easy Potato Pancakes - Wonderfully crisp, tender, and just melt-in-your mouth amazing. Can be served as an appetizer, side dish or even a light main dish!

I have a newfound love.

It’s potato pancakes. A carboholic’s dream.

And by using refrigerated hash browns, these come together with 10 minutes prep. No wait. More like 7 minutes.

Easy Potato Pancakes - Wonderfully crisp, tender, and just melt-in-your mouth amazing. Can be served as an appetizer, side dish or even a light main dish!

You can also add in your desired toppings – like ham, bacon, pancetta, or maybe all three.

But even without that bacon fat, these are still good on their own, with a dollop of sour cream. Or ketchup. Maybe a little ranch mixed with buffalo sauce…

Sorry, I digress.

Easy Potato Pancakes - Wonderfully crisp, tender, and just melt-in-your mouth amazing. Can be served as an appetizer, side dish or even a light main dish!

My point is – you can eat these on their own, with desired fill-ins, and/or your favorite dipping sauces.

Or you can eat them plain, over the kitchen counter, by yourself.

That way no one judges you as your stuff 4 of these in the middle of the night with a glass of wine.

Easy Potato Pancakes

Easy Potato Pancakes

Wonderfully crisp, tender, and just melt-in-your mouth amazing. Can be served as an appetizer, side dish or even a light main dish!
4.8 stars (10 ratings)

Ingredients

  • 1 20-ounce package refrigerated hash brown potatoes*
  • ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 3 green onions, thinly sliced
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, combine potatoes, Parmesan, flour, garlic, eggs, green onions and cayenne pepper; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
  • Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Scoop tablespoons of batter for each pancake, flattening with a spatula, and cook until the underside is nicely golden brown, about 2-3 minutes. Flip and cook on the other side, about 2 minutes longer.
  • Serve immediately.

Notes

*4 large russet potatoes can be substituted, coarsely grated and drained completely to extract as much liquid as possible.

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