Hanukkah Recipes!

Classic Potato Latkes

Ingredients:

• 10 russet potatoes

• 4 yellow onions, peeled and halved

• 4 eggs

• ½ cup matzoh meal (roughly)

• Canola Oil

• Kosher Salt

• Sour cream and applesauce, for serving

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees

2. Peel the potatoes and plunge them in a large bowl with cold water. Pat dry.

3. Using the shredding disk on your food processor, shred the potatoes and onions together. (You may also use a large hole box grater.)

4. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and set aside. Transfer a few handfuls of shredded potatoes and onions to a double-thickness of paper towels, and squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Place in the bowl with the eggs

5. Repeat with the remaining potatoes and onions

6. Stir in the matzo meal and season generously with salt and pepper

7. Heat a few glugs of oil in a large heavily skillet (you’ll use about ¼ cup oil at first, but you’ll keep adding more) over medium-high heat

8. To see if the oil is ready, put a pinch of potato mixture; it should sizzle and turn golden in 10 seconds

9. Using an ice cream scoop, drop the latke batter in the oil and flatten gently with a spatula

10. Cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side

11. Transfer latkes to a paper-towel lined plate and sprinkle immediately with salt. Repeat with the remaining batter.

12. Serve hot, with applesauce and sour cream on the side 

From Parents.com 

Cinnamon Sweet Potato and Apple Latkes

Ingredients

• 1 medium sized sweet potato (2 cups grated)

• 1 or (1 cup grated) granny smith apple 

• 1 large egg

• ½ teaspoon of baking powder

• 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

• 2 tablespoons of whole spelt flour (or whole wheat/all purpose)

• 1 tablespoon oat bran

• 1 teaspoon flaxseed meal

• A pinch of sea salt

• 3 tablespoons of canola oil for frying

Instructions

1. Peel and grate sweet potato and apple. Using a clean kitchen towel, cheese cloth, or fine mesh strainer, extract as much of the liquid as possible. Discard liquid and transfer grated sweet potato and apple to a medium sized bowl.

2. Add the egg, baking powder, cinnamon, flour, oat bran, flax seed meal, and salt to the bowl. Mix well.

3. Heat oil in a large non-stick skillet. Before you begin frying, test oil by dropping a small amount of the mixture and make sure it's hot enough.

4. Once the oil is hot, scoop out a heaping teaspoon (using a soup spoon, not measuring spoon), and gently drop into a hot pan, and use the back of the spoon to flatten out the latke. Continue, in batches, with the entire mixture. Add more oil to the pan as needed.

5. Fry until golden brown for about 3-4 minutes. Flip and cook for another 2-3 minutes.

6. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate

7. Serve warm with your favorite condiment 

From momtastic.com

Applesauce

Ingredients

• 4 Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and cut into bite-sized pieces

• ½ cup apple juice

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. Place the first four ingredients in a medium saucepan. 

2. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.

3. Remove from heat and allow to cool for 10 minutes.

4. Smash with potato masher. 

5. Spoon into serving bowls and sprinkle with ground cinnamon 

From parents.com