I'm going to try my hand again at frying some potato latkes, but I'm not sure I have a great recipe. Who has a good recipe I can use? Any advice?
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4 comments:
Scott,
I learned how to make latkes from my Bubbie. Here's what I do:
5 potatoes
4 eggs
scant 1/2 cup matzo meal
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1-2 onions
1 carrot (optional)
1 tsp. salt
I peel the potatoes and use the food processor to grate them. Well, it doesn't really grate them, it makes little tiny pieces of potato. It works for me. I use it for the onions and carrot too. The carrot is just for color. It makes them look pretty.
So you process all the vegetables, beat the eggs and add the other ingredients. Work quickly so your potatoes don't turn grey.
After you mix it all together you use a large spoon to drop into hot oil in a large frying pan. I like them crispy so I let the oil get hot, drop in the latkes and slightly flatten with the back of the spoon. A non-stick fry pan is fantastic for this. Let them get good and crispy on one side before flipping them over. I have a large cookie sheet lined with paper towels ready to drain on before serving. You can keep them in a warm oven until you have enough to serve everyone or just keep putting them out as they are ready. Serve with sour cream and apple sauce for dipping.
Happy Chanukah everyone.
Melanie,
Thanks for the recipe and advice. Don't know how the food-processor will sit with traditionalists. Seems the hand grating always gave time for the cook to complain, which seemed essential to good latkes (besides, I don't have a food processor).
Then grate them, and mind your knuckles!
When you grate by hand, you may have to put the shreds into cold water until you are done and then drain very well and pat dry on a towel. Otherwise the potatoes can turn a very unpleasant color.
So Scott, did you try your hand at making latkes yet?
Penny, one of my Jewish cookbooks is a little paperback that was my mother's and is so old it's falling apart. It's called "Love and Knishes". I love it because there's a lot of humor mixed in with the recipes. The matzo meal latkes have just matzo meal, salt, sugar and milk or water, probably depending on whether you are serving with meat or not. We'll have to see what Auntie Saundra says, but my guess on why matzo meal latkes at Pesach is because we use matzo for everything at that time and as Tevya would say "Tradition!".
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