Sunday, October 10, 2010

Latkas - aka potato pancakes

So this one is my first mobile edition - straight from the cool kid phone. I used a couple recipes, but here is what seems to work best in terms of texture and taste balanced with effort.

Get yourself a bag of ore-ida frozen hashbrowns. Raw potatoes take a long time to cook and using pre-baked was not worth the effort and it turned out a little mushy.

Whisk together 2 eggs, 1.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp of fresh ground pepper.

In a large bowl, combine half the bag of hasbrowns, 2 tbs flour and a diced medium onion, then add the egg mixture.

Heat up a cast iron pan over medium heat with about a 1/4 inch of veggie oil until the shimmers. Put a pattie of the hasbrowns in and cook for 3-5 min a side. Be patient with it, keeping the temp down and letting a nice brown develop on both sides. I like to put them on a cooling rack in a pan in the oven set to as low as it will go - it helps prevent getting soggy.

Eat with applesauce or ketchup or whatever else you can think of.

Lchayyim.

It means "to life". Don't confuse it with Monty Python's Life of Brian, that would be ha'chay l'Brian. And if you ate these pancakes and exclaimed they would be good enough for YHVH.... Well, don't say it...

BTW - posting from the iFizzle sucks. That is all.

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