Recipe for vegan Potato Croquettes - the perfect side dish for festive Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners! Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside - just like they should be!
Homemade Potato Croquettes are the perfect fancy side dish for festive dinners! They are basically fried mashed potato logs, so you could use any leftover mashed potatoes to make these as well! But for this recipe, I've made the potato dough from scratch using floury potatoes (those work best!).
While I loooove potato croquettes with Brussels sprouts, seitan steaks, and lingonberry jam (the whole fancy Thanksgiving platter); they are also really good for not so fancy-pants foods such as creamy spinach and grilled tofu slices or mushroom sauce with rice.
How to prepare Potato Croquettes
Okay, guys, this is our potato croquette station. On the left you see the potato dough, then on the top we have three bowls with 1) plain flour 2) unsweetened plant-based milk e.g. oat milk or rice milk and 3) breadcrumbs and salt. If you order the bowls in that way, you won't mess up the breading process.
Rolling the potato croquettes in flour first helps keeping them in shape. I tried it without the flour and the croquettes fell apart in the hot oil - not to mention the breadcrumbs that were all over the place. So don't skip the first flour coating! :)
How to prepare Potato Croquettes ahead
These potato croquettes are the best and crispiest when they are fresh out of the oil. However, if you want to prepare them ahead, you can make the potato dough 1-2 days earlier and keep it in the fridge. Or you could roll the potato dough into croquettes and keep these in the fridge (they will take up more space, though). However I haven't tried breading them a day ahead, and frying them the next day.
Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. These vegan potato croquettes are sooo good! You can make these for omnivores too. No one would think they are any different from regular potato croquettes (those have often eggs and milk in them).
Vegan Potato Croquettes
Ingredients
Basic Potato Dough
- 9 floury potatoes
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened oat milk (or rice milk)
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¾ teaspoon salt
Breading Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened oat milk (or rice milk)
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- ½ teaspoon salt
- frying oil
Instructions
- Peel and cut potatoes in half. Boil them in a large pot with water until soft. Drain and put them back in the pot. Mash them with a potato masher. Add the rest of the ingredients for the basic potato dough and mash everything together until creamy. Let the potato dough rest until cold enough to handle.
- Let's prepare the breading station. Fill the all-purpose flour in a bowl, the oat milk in a second bowl and the breadcrumbs and the salt in a third bowl.
- Form croquettes with the potato dough. Roll them first in flour, then dip them in oat milk, and lastly coat in breadcrumbs. Make sure they are coated on all sides.
- Heat the frying oil in a medium-sized to small pot (fill the oil about 2 inches high - the croquettes should be able to float in the oil but make sure you don't fill too much oil into the pot to prevent hot oil spilling on the hot plate and everywhere). Once the oil is hot, fry the croquettes in batches until golden and crispy. Place them on a paper towel to remove excess oil. Enjoy!
Notes
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Jenna says
Oh yes, these look amazing!!
Bianca says
Thank you! I have a thing for crispy, fried potato-y things :D
Wendy says
Followed the recipe. They fell apart while frying.
Bianca says
I'm sorry to hear that they didn't turn out as they should. Did you coat them in flour before breading them? I noticed that step to be essential for them not to fall apart in the oil. The first ones I made fell apart too, then I added a bit more flour to the dough, and also made sure to coat them in flour on all sides before breading. Then it worked.
Jess @ Living on Leaves says
Oooh yum!! I used to love potato croquettes when I was little, haven't eaten them for years and years so will definitely give these a go!
Bianca says
Yeay! I'd love to hear how they turn out for you :)
Tina says
What does floury potatoes mean?
Bianca says
Floury potatoes have a fluffy, dry texture that makes them great for boiling, mashed potatoes and for chips. Typical floury potatoes varieties are: Desiree, Estima, King Edward and Maris Piper.
Anne says
These are great whole family loved them. I put chilli powder in bread crumbs to colour them worked well did not taste the crumb. You are right need to flour potatoes to get them to work. Will be using again.. Not all vegan recipe work for my daughter as she is dairy and soy allergic. Thanks for this one.done
Brian S Yates says
I made these for Thanksgiving dinner and they fell apart completely in the oil... complete disaster. When you say 9 potatoes, how many pounds? I used Russett potatoes which are pretty large, perhaps I didn't add enough flour?
Leroy says
9 potatoes? What size? This could mean anything. Can you include a weight please?
suezie says
These worked beautifully. They were perfectly crisp on the outside and soft and delicious in the middle! Will keep this one! Thank you!!
Craig Andrew Mawer says
can you freeze them
Tracy says
Can you cook the croquets in the oven
Gary says
I can't believe this works so well; nice crispy solid croquettes!
Bev says
Can't wait to try this recipe! My only question is, what amount of potatoes, by weight or volume, because "9 potatoes" could be quite a variety, depending on the size. This would be a great help to me. Thanks! :-)