Bacon Potato Cakes Recipe - Great British Chefs

Ingredients

• 500g of baking potatoes, three-quarters cooked
• 75g of shallots, peeled and finely chopped
• 2 tsp thyme leaves, finely chopped
• 350g of smoked streaky bacon, cooked and roughly chopped
• 50g of unsalted butter
• rapeseed oil
• ground white pepper
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp of chives, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp of chervil, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp of spring onion greens
• 100ml of rapeseed oil
• salt
• pepper
• 250g of watercress, large stalks removed and washed