Recipe for Latkes

[cherylp3]

Okay, I'm gonna do it I am gonna try making Latkes...
Any recipes??

Thanks Cheryl

 

[Cindy B]

Oooh.. I love those..

I do a look at it type recipe. I use the food processor to shred the potato, and throw an onion in while the potato is shredding.

I throw an egg in there. To moisten it. And then I add some flour/salt pepper.

Then I use a tiny bit of oil or Pam, in a pan and fry them up... until brownish

 

[amid chaos]

Cindy has it right. Or you could buy the bagged shredded potatoes, add an onion, egg and flour. We like ours with homemade apple sauce and sour cream.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

ack! too early to think latkes!

Chanuka isn't for another 3 weeks.

 

[CyranoJones]

I'm so excited because my daughter will be home and gets to celebrate Th'giving and Hanukkah (at least the first 2 nites). And my MIL will be there to make the latkes!! Am I a lucky girl or what!

 

[newmousecateer]

There are some very good recipes for them on the Food Channel Network website.

I want to make them this year also, I absolutely love them.

 

[browneyes]

I've never had them.

 

[Cindy B]

my Hungarian grandma used to call them potato pancakes..

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

latkes and turkey leftovers, what a combo.

 

[Tina]

My neighbor's mom comes down from New Jersey every year for the holidays. We can always tell when she's here 'cuz we can smell the latkes frying before we turn onto the street! Mmmmmm! I can't wait!!

 

[robinb]

Make sure you squish the extra water out of the potatoes so things bind a little better. I have also baked latkas, but I like the fried better .

Don't forget the sour cream and applesauce!

 

[caitycaity]

for jews, oil is a very important component of latkes. they're not latkes without the oil.

 

[FergieTCat]

Caitycaity -- the word is "schmaltz"!! As in "chicken schmaltz".

We Jews love to clog our arteries!

Bring on the schmaltz and chopped liver (but not together!)

 

[marlasmom]

CHICKEN FAT ABSOLUTELY. At least part chicken fat. I remove the skin and fat from chicken breasts and render the fat SLOWLY in a frying pan and use it to fry to latkes. Also, you may wish to add a little flour or matzo meal to the mix. And don't forget to press out all the water from the potatos that you can. You can grate them into a bowl of ice water with salt to keep them from getting brown until you are ready to proceed.

I want some NOW.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

Fergie, we stopped using schmaltz years ago. and when you think about it, you're celebrating the miracle of the oil, so oil is a beter choice.


not that I don't miss schmaltz every now and then.

 

[Micca]

My parents used to make "potato pancakes". We used leftover mashed potatoes. I tried it over the weekend and they came out pretty good!

 

[BethR]

My mom used to use the leftover mashed potatoes and make what WE called "Potato Cakes."

But that is not what we grew up knowing as Potato PANcakes. THEY were made with raw potatoes grated. Now GRATING is a WHOLE nother can of wax! Do you use the LARGE holes and have shreds? Or do you use the SMALL holes and have mush? My great grandfather used to make them and would use the small holes. My FIL does them the same way.

But most recipes that I have seen (and the way that *I* make them) call for shredding the potatoes. Actually, I use a food processer and it has medium size holes that make small shreds. I grate the potatoes and onions into a bowl of cold water and rinse them several times. Then I add the flour and eggs. I have always fried them in oil.

Ummmmm, potato pancakes have always been a Lenten treat for US.

 

[lilboo]

robinb! I was wondering if you could bake the latkes WITH a little schmaltz on the sheet, do you think that might make a nice compromise?

Who'm I kidding? Where's that oil?

 

[jjskribs]

When I was growing up and we couldn't eat meat on Friday we would often have potato pancakes. I can remember my mom using a metal grater to scrap the potatoes. Because she didn't want to waste any of the potato she would scrap it down to the bitter end. I think on more than one occasion she probably scraped part of her finger into the bowl