Easy Potato Cakes

Ingredients:
1 lbs. Yukon potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
3 slices bacon
2 green onions chopped
2 tbs nonfat yogurt
1/4 cup reserved potato water
1 tsp mayonnaise
1 cup panko breadcrumbs
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp chili flakes
Directions:

Place pot of water over medium heat. Add potatoes, chopped garlic and 1 tsp of salt.

 Cook until potatoes become fork tender. Remove from the pot with cooked garlic.

Reserve the potato water; Mash potatoes and garlic and set aside.

While potatoes are cooking, prepare the bacon. Slice bacon into thin pieces. In a cast-iron pan, add bacon and cook until the bacon renders it's fat or the bacon becomes crispy. Remove from pan and set aside. Reserve the bacon fat.

Add crispy bacon, chopped green onions, yogurt, mayonnaise, chili flakes, reserved potato water, and half of the panko breadcrumbs into mashed potatoes. Stir the mixture well to combine.

 Use hands to shape the potatoes into eight 4-inch diameter patties. Roll the potato patties in the rest of the breadcrumbs. Chill for 15 minutes

In the same cast-iron pan, use the bacon fat to fry cakes on each side for about 6 minutes or until golden brown.

 Serve hot