Bubble & Squeak dispute - I'm right, surely?

[Caenea]

Friend popped round Monday, and as I was clattering about the kitchen she asked, as you do, what I was planning to cook for tea. As we'd had a roast on the Sunday, I explained that I was doing cold meat & a couple of sausages to pad it out (as there were about two slices of pork left), mashed potatoes and bubble and squeak. She then observed me chopping up left over veg/roast potatoes/stuffing/an onion and putting this into a frying pan, at which point she asked me what the devil I thought I was doing...

Apparently, Bubble and Squeak is not a fried off mix of the leftovers but should be a stew, made up with left over gravy/beef stock.

AIBU? She's wrong, surely - I've never heard of B&S being a stew!!

[Elphame]

I agree with you. It's a fry up of left over vegetables.

[MsGameandWatch]

No she's wrong! Chopped up veg and mash, made into pattys and then fried.

[Patriciathestripper1]

noooo should be your way NOT a stew what's the world coming to??

[Gardencentregroupie]

A stew? WTAF?

I bloody love bubble.

[BreezyThursday]

Fried, deffo. Our local cafe has it as a breakfast option. Yum!

[Allalonenow]

She's wrong, B&S is fried up vegetables, the answer is in the name!

[PeridotPassion]

Er no, that would be...a stew. Just using yesterdays veg.

B&S should be all the veg fried together, then if no meat left, eaten with a couple of rashers of bacon and a fried egg on top.

[TwitterQueen1]

Yes of course you are right. Honestly, what kind of friend is this? STEW? everything would surely just dissolve into a soggy mess.

The crispy bits are the best.

[TaggieRR]

You're both wrong although your friend is wronger!!! It's mashed up potato and sprouts, fried.

[FeliciaJollygoodfellow]

You are right of course.

Can anyone tell me how best to make it? sounds daft but I didn't like it as a child (mum insisted on including the veg I didn't like!) and have never had it as an adult. I think I'd like it though.

[user1483387154]

It is the mixture of mashed potato mixed with other left over vegetables made into burger shapes and fried.

[dollydaydream114]

I would go NC over this.

Just kidding. Seriously though, she's mad as a sack of ferrets; there is no way on god's earth that bubble & squeak is a stew.

It has to be fried - lots of cafes do it as part of a fried breakfast, especially in London. My old nan would be turning in her grave at the thought of a bubble & squeak stew.

[PansyGiraffe]

I make bubble and squeak to be more like an omelette (or a frittata, I guess) - all the veg, some eggs, shove it in a pan as one big disc, then brown the top under the grill.

I fully accept that your way is the correct way, I just can never get it to work and not disintegrate. Your friend is wronger than a wrong thing who spells it wrnog.

[ExplodedCloud]

B&S is all the leftover veg and roast potatoes (I do loads to ensure leftovers), chopped and fried up together. Best served with brown sauce. Possibly gravy if no brown sauce.

[Sweepingchange]

It has to consist of about 50% potato doesn't it?

I've heard of people having eggs with it, but not in it.

Can't link with this tablet thing but recipes on BBC food site!

[Palomb]

Bubble and squeak is sometimes better than the roast dinner isn't it. One of my most favourite things!

[Bluntness100]

She can even google it, bubble and squeak is defo the fried left overs. Wonder why she thinks it's a stew? It's like thinking you make an omelette in a slow cooker, just totally wrong.

[Caenea]

THANK YOU.

Honestly I was starting to doubt myself, she's adamant it's a stew.

@Bluntness - apparently it's how her mother does it

[Bluntness100]

Weird, just tell her to google it, lots of recipes on line, what her mum was making was ehrm,,,,stew 😂

[MrsderPunkt]

Fine chop the veg, mash with the potatoes, chuck an egg or two in, form into patties and fry. Did it yesterday, was fab!

[Caenea]

Has to be admitted I didn't know about chucking egg in and making patties of it! I literally just fry mine off, with butter - delicious.

[mumonashoestring]

Best bubble & squeak I've made was in the roasting tin that still had some beef fat in it from the roast; heated up the tin on the hob, mashed all of the leftover veg into it, seasoned the lot Andrew left it till the bottom was starting to look crispy. Then broke eggs into some hollows on the top and put the whole thing under the grill til the eggs were cooked (soft yolks) and the top browned. Gorgeous.

[mumonashoestring]

Bloody autocorrect. I don't know who Andrew is but he didn't get any of my bubble & squeak

[trevortrevorslattery]

OMG I had forgotten all about bubble & squeak.
I am now thinking of what to have for tea with mashed potatoes so I can generate some leftovers for B&S!!

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

We had bubble and squeak on monday. Chopped up leftover veg from our sunday roast with an onion. Yummy! Cold meat on the side, might add some bacon if we have some. Reheat the gravy and have a bit of that too! I put all my leftover veg in, spuds, parsnips, carrots and sprouts this time round. I have used broccoli in the past!