Savoy Cabbage Patties with Fried Egg

Do you also love the magazine displays in doctors' waiting rooms? 28 issues of “My Weekly”, one car magazine, a travel magazine from 2003, several preventive care magazines and… yay! a cooking magazine, from 2007. Apart from the choice of dishes, recipe journals are timeless, so I start browsing. Today’s dish catches my eye, and I think I’d like to cook it again - well, then. The ingredient list is simple enough, so I don’t even need my cell phone to photograph the recipe. So I am spared suspicious looks of the fellow waiting. “Next, please” - phew, transferred to short-term memory just in time….

Later:

I boil 200 g semi-solid potatoes, peel and mash them. Now they can cool down a bit, in the time I cook 120 g savoy cabbage. I have previously freed it from the thick ribs and cut it into finger-sized pieces. In the boiling water is salt and a little sodium bicarbonate, so the cabbage stays nice and green. After about 5 minutes it is cooked. Out with it, rinse, and now in portions squeeze vigorously, so that no more water is in it. A little remains as decoration for later. Who has not so much strength, can also put the leaves between towels and go over it with the rolling pin.

Now I briefly saute a small spring onion in rings, half a clove of garlic (finely grated) and a good amount of mace in the pan. This goes into the mixing bowl, into which I also put the mashed potatoes and cabbage. **Add a tablespoon of flour, season with salt and pepper and form meatballs from the dough. The can immediately in the pan with clarified butter and fry about 5 minutes on each side, until they are nicely browned.

In a second pan I fry two fried eggs. I use the large serving rings for this to keep them in shape, because later I put them on top of the meatballs. They are large eggs, they get relatively high. So I put a lid over the molds to keep them well poked through.

Done. The meatballs on a warmed plate, a few carrot cubes and a little dried nettle fruit as decoration, the remaining savoy cabbage and the egg on top and I eat for the first time a new favorite dish….

Details for one hungry person.

savoy cabbage patties, fried egg