Lynda's Miracle Latkes
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
40 latkes
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 1 Spanish onion
- 5 lbs idaho potatoes, peeled
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (5 mL)
- salt
- white pepper
- canola oil, for frying
directions
- Peel and quarter onion. Cut potatoes into chunks. Place onion and potatoes in large bowl of ice water.
- In batches, using steel blade in food processor, grate onion and potatoes until mixture is smooth, beginning with onion each time and adding potato, removing each batch to a mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs with baking powder and add to potato-and-onion mixture. Add salt and with pepper to taste.
- Add oil to cover the bottom of a Teflon frying pan to a depth of about 1/4 inch and heat over medium heat, until a drop of the potato mixture sizzles when dropped into the oil.
- Gently drop potato mixture by tablespoonful into pan and fry until golden.
- Flip and fry until other side is golden.
- Drain on paper towels, which can be spread on a Teflon baking sheet or parchment paper if you are frying earlier in the day and serving latkes later.
- Leave unrefrigerated.
- Before serving, remove latkes from toweling, arrange on baking sheet so they're overlapping and re-heat at 375 degrees F for 10 minutes, until they are crisp.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
KateL
Joppa, Maryland
I love to eat yummy healthy foods!