Leek patties
40 min · 29 g protein · 375 cals / serving
Swedish leek patties: soft, sweet sautéed leek bound with egg, cottage cheese, oats and a little grated aged cheese, fried golden on both sides. Served with a cold chive and mustard kvarg sauce, the everyday vegetarian dinner Swedes keep coming back to.
Ingredients
Patties
- 1 cup cottage cheese, keso
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup hard cheese, 17% fat, grated, an aged hard cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp canola oil, for frying
Chive sauce
- 3/4 cup quark
- a small bunch fresh chives, finely chopped
- 2 tsp French mustard
Steps
- Rinse the sliced leek well and drain. Melt 1 teaspoon of the butter in a large frying pan over medium heat and cook the leek, stirring now and then, for 8–10 minutes until soft and sweet but not browned. Let it cool for a few minutes.
- In a bowl, mix the cottage cheese, eggs, oats, grated cheese, salt and pepper, then stir in the leek. Leave for 10 minutes so the oats soak up the liquid and the mixture firms into a thick batter that holds a mound on the spoon.
- Wipe out the pan and heat the oil and the rest of the butter over medium heat. Drop in heaped spoonfuls (about 12 in all), flatten them lightly and fry 3–4 minutes per side until golden and set right through (160°F in the middle). Keep the first batch warm in a low oven.
- Stir the kvarg, filmjölk, chives and mustard together with a pinch of salt for the sauce. Serve the patties with the sauce.
Good to know
My patties fall apart in the pan.
Give the mix the full ten minutes to rest, keep the heat at medium and wait until the underside is properly golden before turning. A tablespoon more oats firms a loose batch.
What goes with them?
Boiled potatoes and a green salad are the classic, or stewed cauliflower (stuvad blomkål) for something creamy.
Which cheese?
Any aged Swedish hard cheese with some bite, such as Präst or a lagrad hushållsost. A strong cheese means a little goes a long way.
Per
- Calories
- 126
- Protein
- (31%)
- 10 g
- Fat
- (40%)
- 6 g
- Carbohydrates
- (29%)
- 10 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 241 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 1499 kcal goes into the pot and 1384 g of ingredients comes out as about 1185 g of food: 126 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.