Recipe

Gigantic potato pancakes

Gigantic potato pancakes

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  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Street Food
    This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Fair Food
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    Ausra's Notes: I live in Upstate New York, and every public event that I've been to so far had these pancakes. Starting with infamous New York State Fair and ending at a Food Tent during our elementary school...

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Serves 2

  1. Grate potatoes and onion using the largest holes of your box grater

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  2. Add flour, salt and pepper to potato and onion mixture

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  3. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet or on an electric griddle set on a high setting

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  4. when oil is hot, place half of the potato pancake batter onto the hot pan, flatten with the spatula to form a large pancake, and cook undisturbed until the edges and the bottom of the pancake turn deep brown and crisp

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  5. Gently flip the pancake using a wide spatula. Cook the other side until nice and crisp.

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  6. Slide the pancake onto a plate. Serve with plenty of sour cream or/and apple sauce.

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4 Comments on Gigantic potato pancakes

Harvest-moon-ball Reply

My mother used to make these years ago, when I was a child. There we're 8 of us children. We would grate potatoes, until our knuckles we're bleeding. I haven't had them in a while, but I do remember my mother either putting Garlic Powder/Salt in them. I do not know what the ratio was, but they we're Ohhh So Good, on a cold winter day, with a pat of butter on top. She couldn't get them cooked fast enough.

Buddhacat Reply

Anything with potatoes should be giant!

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These are like oversize potato latkes.

Img_2764 Reply

Never seen these as fair food, but potato and pancakes are two of the sweetest words ever to come together.

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