Potato Pancakes
by Carol Engelmann
(Galicia, Spain)
When I go back to Germany "Kartoffelnpuffer" are one of the foods I look forward to most. Easy and cheap to make Potato pancakes are delicious. Kids love them!
They can be eaten with a hearty Gulasch or simply with apple sauce and cinnamon. At the cold winter markets, they are served alone to eat out of the hand.
Makes 30 to 35 pancakes.
Potato Pancakes
Ingredients:
8 large potatoes (firm kind)
1 medium onion
1 egg, beaten
3 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 or 2 garlic cloves (crushed)
vegetable oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to keep pancakes warm. Grate or shred potatoes coarsely. Squeeze potatoes to remove some of the liquid reserving in a bowl. Finely grate onion. Stir together grated potatoes, onion, egg, flour, salt, pepper and crushed garlic. Discard top portion of potatoe juice leaving 1/2 inch in the bottom of the bowl. Stir this starchier portion back into the mixture.
Take a large frying pan and heat 3 tablespoons of oil over medium - high heat. Drop 1 heaped tablespoon of mixture into the pan and spread to about 3 inch round pancakes.
Place 2 or 3 in the pan at once if you can. Cook until browned and crisp on the bottom about 3 minutes. Turn and cook other side. Lift from the pan and drain on paper towel.
Keep pancakes warm in the preheated oven.
Serve as above. Great on cold winter days in or outside.
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