Feta and potato cakes

These little cakes are very tasty and simple to make. Before making them, take into account that you need to let the mixture to chill for 1 hour, it will hold its shape better.


Makes 8 to 10 cakes:

500g potatoes
200g feta cheese, crumbled
1 egg
black pepper
1 tsp mixed Italian herbs

+ 3 TBSP plain flour
2 tsp chilli powder
Olive oil, for frying

1. Boil the potatoes until very well done, drain and mash well. Mix in the feta, egg, pepper and herbs and leave to cool down then chill for an hour.

2. Shape the mixture into walnut-size balls.

3. Mix the flour and chilli powder into a plate and roll the balls into the flour mixture.

4. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and place a few balls onto the pan and flatten them with a spatula. Repeat by batches until all the balls are fried. Serve hot with green vegetables of your choice.

Raw vegetable salad with feta cheese (2)

This salad is nice and refreshing, great with a few slices of crusty seeded wholemeal bread.


Ingredients:

Cucumber, sliced
Tomatoes, diced,
1 yellow pepper, sliced and slices cut in two
1 red pepper, sliced and slices cut in two
celery branches, sliced
Feta cheese, diced or crumbled
Unrefined extra virgin olive oil
salt and pepper

Raw vegetable salad with feta cheese

We had a few days of sunshine where a nice refreshing salad was a must.


Ingredients:

celery sticks, sliced
carrots, cut into sticks
tomatoes, diced
Cucumber, sliced
Feta cheese, diced
Unrefined, extra virgin olive oil
salt
freshly cracked black pepper