Monday, July 16, 2012

Potato Pancakes: The Healthy Choice!

By Ben Panny


Potato pancakes are typically shallow-fried pancakes made up of mashed, grated or shredded potatoes, flour, and egg. They're usually drizzled with salt, and flavored with finely diced onion and/or garlic. Compared with all other pancakes made purely of flour, eggs and butter, potato pancakes are utterly a healthier pancake choice. Consuming these could offer you very good quantities of vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, manganese as well as fiber from potatoes by themselves. If you wish, you may modify the basic recipe for potato pancake to a truly healthier recipe by just replacing ingredients. You could substitute fiber-rich whole wheat flour rather than the plain white flour. You could as well include eggs and even much more of your favorite nutritious ingredients like celery, garlic, onions, sweet corn and a lot more. You can also bake them instead of frying in order to reduce the oil.

Potato pancakes absolutely are a classic meal among many areas in Europe, like Switzerland, Poland and Germany. They're also related with customary cuisines of Ukraine, Russia, Sweden and Luxembourg. Potato pancakes are labeled with several names. They are termed "Rosti" in Swiss cuisine and "latkes" for Jewish.

Potato pancakes could be served either as a main dish or a side dish. Regardless, they can fill you up! Potato pancakes are often eaten along with a wide variety of toppings, which includes the tasty condiments: sour cream and cottage cheese, and the sweet versions: apple sauce, lingonberry jam, cranberry sauce, or just with sugar. They also taste awesome although in plain!

How to Make the Traditional Potato Pancakes

Ingredients:

1 cup Water, 3/4 cup, Dairy Free Cooking Cream or Non Dairy Milk, 1 pinch of Salt, 1 cup Plain Flour, 2 tsp Baking Powder, 1/4 cup melted Dairy Free Margarine or plain cooking oil, 1 cup Mashed potatoes (utilizing day old leftover mashed potatoes works well),

Instructions:

In a huge bowl, combine the ingredients together. When you are mixing, stir in wet ingredients. Remember to put the melted margarine soon after it has cooled off. Continue stirring while incorporating the ingredients to avoid formation of lumps in the batter. Fold in mashed potatoes. Give the batter rest for 5-10 minutes. Grease a huge griddle with oil, and then heat up. Fry potato pancakes by groups over medium heat. Fry them until their top top layer has set, lift and fry the other side till light brown. Remember to maintain the stove/fire on medium heat. Serve potato pancakes along with lingonberry jam.




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