Potato Latke

December 10, 2023

Recipe shared by Jodi W. from Aunt Estelle

Ingredients:

6 large potatoes

2 onions

2 eggs

1-1/2 tsp salt

pinch of pepper

1/2 cup of matzoh meal

Vegetable Oil

Scrub potatoes thoroughly. Using a disk blade of a Cuisinart, grate potatoes and dump in a colander. Sprinkle a little flour over potatoes.
Peel onions, cut in quarters, and put in Cuisinart with the eggs, salt and pepper, using the metal coarse blade to grate and blend onions with eggs.
Press down on potatoes in colander as hard as you can, squeezing out water
In a large bowl, mix together the potatoes, onion/egg mixture and the matzoh meal
If mixture too loose, add a little more matzoh meal
In a large skillet, heat 6 Tbs. oil until hot.
Drop a large spoonfuls of the potato mixture into the hot oil, in the shape of a pancake. Allow each to brown on one side, and then flip over and brown the other side.
Remove from pan and drain the oil on paper towels.