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Happy December! This year seems like it is going by so quickly. I don’t know about you, but I’m still a bit stuck on fall, enjoying apple cider, roasted squash and pomegranates with recipes reminiscent of Thanksgiving. Hanukkah begins on Saturday, and with that I want to share with you my favorite twist on the standard latke (potato pancake)! This recipe is so delicious, with a flavorful substitution of yams instead of white potatoes.
Sweet Potato Latkes
Ingredients
3 Scallions, sliced
1/3-2/3 cup shredded sweet vidalia onion*
2 garlic cloves
6 cups shredded sweet potato
3 eggs, lightly scrambled
1/3 cup flour*
2 tsp salt
1 tsp freshly ground pepper
Oil for frying
Applesauce and/or sour cream, for serving
Directions
In a Cuisinart, shred sweet potato. Once you have shredded all of the sweet potato, run at least half of it through the Cuisinart a second time. Next, shred the onion through the Cuisinart.
Add shredded onion, potato and sliced scallions to a bowl. Using a microplane grater, finely grate 3 garlic cloves into the bowl. Add eggs, salt, pepper and flour and mix well to combine.
Heat a large frying pan over medium heat and add oil to coat the bottom. Fry each latke and place on a paper towel.
Enjoy with sour cream and applesauce!
Another favorite Hanukkah recipe is my family’s not-so-secret butter cookie! Its not Hanukkah in our house until an obscene amount of these cookies are baked and then devoured as soon as they cool. I posted the recipe last year, you can view it here: Hanukkah Butter Cookies
Happy Hanukkah!
*Depending on how strong you want the flavor to be, you can add more or less onion. Same with the garlic, you can always add an extra clove if you want.
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I’d be perfectly content if we shortened winter by a month or two and extended autumn instead… There’s too many good fall flavors and just not enough time! I’ve actually never eaten potato latkes, but I like the sounds of your version using sweet potatoes!
Potato Latkes are super popular with my family, but for some reason we only eat them around Hanukkah! In the new Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb talks about how she likes to eat latkes year-round, and I think we should all adopt that practice haha. I hope you enjoy the recipe!
It seems like we do that with a lot of holiday food! For my family, it’s Christmas fruitcakes. My grandma makes enough for every family member to have one, but only in December!
Thats so sweet of her! I can imagine that each family has their own special traditions like that. It makes it that much more special when you get to indulge in those treats!
Exactly! They’re made with so much love that the treats taste even better.
That looks scrumptious! I love anything pan fried. 🙂
Anne, they were so delicious! I love regular latkes too but these are a refreshing change. Happy Holidays!