Showing posts with label Holiday Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Potato Latkes

This recipes comes courtesy from my mother-in-law who adapted it from the book Jewish Cookery.

Potato Latkes

Ingredients
6 medium sized potatoes
1 onion
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
oil for frying


Peel and grate potatoes (I use my food processor). Transfer to a strainer and squeeze out liquid (this is an important step!). Grate onion into potatoes and transfer into food processor fitted with the chopping blade. Pulse until things are well chopped.* Add eggs, flour, and salt and stir together. Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Drop the batter from a spoon into the hot oil, making pancakes about 3 inches in diameter. Fry until brown on the underside and then turn. Lift out and drain off excess oil on a paper towel lined plate.

Yield: about 25-30 latkes

*many recipes do not call for this step, but we much prefer them all chopped up. Yum!