Sweet potato latkes

12 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 cups Sweet potatoes; grated
¾ cup Onion; grated
1 Egg; lightly beaten
4 tablespoons Dry bread crumbs
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
½ teaspoon Ground black pepper
4 tablespoons Butter

Directions

Place ½ cup of the grated sweet potatoes in the center of a double layer of paper towels. Fold the toweling in half lengthwise. and roll it, making a tube around the potato. Fold the ends up on either side, making a packet. Gently squeeze, wringing as much moisture from the potato as possible. Carefully unfold and unroll the paper towels, and turn the potato into a medium bowl. Repeat, squeezing out ½ cup of the potatoes in fresh towals. Squeeze the onion dry, using the same technique, and add it to the sweet potato.

To the potato and onion, add the egg, bread crumbs. salt and pepper.

With a fork, mix the ingredients thoroughly.

In a large frying pan over medium-high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of the buner. When the butter stops foaming, with a fork press about 2 tablespoons of the potato mixture into a ¾-inch pancake about ⅜-inch thick. Repeat, filling the pan with latkes, leaving 1 inch between each one.

Fry until the latkes have browned on 1 side, about 3 minutes. With a spatula, carefully turn and brown latkes on the second side . Drain on paper toweling, and serve immediately. Repeat, adding butter to the pan as needed .

Nutrrtional analysis per latke: 75 calories, 4 grams fat, 8 grams carbohydrates, 30 milligrams cholesterol, 205 milligrams sodium, 48 percent of calories from fat.

** Fort Worth Star Telegram -- Food section -- 29 November 1995 ** Posted by The WEE Scot -- paul macGregor Submitted By PAUL MACGREGOR On 12-24-95

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