Potato Cakes

Here are the instructions for a really easy recipe :  potato cakes.

Ingredients

400g   potatoes
125g   flour  ( harina)
  40g   butter (mantequilla) 
  40g   grated cheese  (queso rallado)
          salt




Instructions

1- Peel (pela)  the potatoes and slice (cortar en lonchas)  them.
2- Put the potatoes in a saucepan  (cazo) with some water and a bit of salt and boil  (hierve) them for 20 minutes.
3- Mash (haz puré)  the potatoes.
4- Put the mashed potatoes, the flour and the butter or margarine into the bowl and mix them with a fork (tenedor) .
5- Make 12 round potato cakes with the mixture ( about 1 cm  in thickness  , en  grosor  ).
6- Fry the potato cakes in a frying pan (sartén)  until they are brown  ( doradas) on both sides.
7- Cover the cakes with the grated cheese.Put them in a dish and keep them warm in the oven.

Enjoy  !

Note. We write : 400g potatoes. But we say: four hundred grams of potatoes.