My Favorite Basic Potato Kugel Baked Food

OLD FASHIONED POTATO KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch pan with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
• Combine the potatoes and onions in a large bowl. Mix in the eggs, 1/3 cup of vegetable oil, salt, and pepper. Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top is golden brown and crisp, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

POTATO KUGEL

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2. In large bowl, mix eggs, oil, flour, salt and pepper. Set aside
• 3. Coursely grate the potatoes and onion by hand or food processor. Let stand 3-5 minutes. Squeeze out excess liquid.
• 4. Add potatoes and onion to the egg mixture. Mix by hand.
• 5. Pour into a greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish
• 6. Bake, uncovered for 1 hour or until golden brown on top and knife inserted in middle comes out clean.

POTATO KUGEL

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 450 F.
• 2. In a medium pan, heat the vegetable oil until shimmering.
• 3. Add the shallots and cook over high heat, stirring occasionally, until golden and crisp, about 6 minutes.
• 4. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the shallots to a plate. Reserve the shallot oil.
• 5. Working in batches, squeeze out as much of the liquid as possible from the potatoes and transfer them to a large bowl as you go.
• 6. Add the grated onion, potato starch (or cornstarch), salt, black pepper, and grated nutmeg. Stir well.
• 7. Stir in the whole eggs, egg yolks, olive oil, and boiling water. Then stir in the fried shallots.
• 8. Heat two 8-by-11 1/2-inch flameproof or enameled cast-iron baking dishes over high heat until they are very hot to the touch.
• 9. Add 2 tablespoons of the shallot oil to each baking dish and heat until smoking.
• 10. Carefully spread the potato mixture in the sizzling baking dishes.
• 11. Transfer the potato kugels to the oven and bake them for 20 minutes. Lower the temperature to 375° and bake the kugels for 40 minutes longer, until golden and crisp on the sides.
• 12. Preheat the broiler. Broil the potato kugels as close to the heat as possible for about 2 minutes, until they are browned and crisp on top.
• 13. Let the potato kugels stand for 20 minutes before cutting into squares and serving.
• 14. These can be made ahead of time. The baked potato kugels can be refrigerated overnight and reheated in a 375 F oven until warm.

THE BEST (AND EASY!) POTATO KUGEL

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish with the oil.
• In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs well before stirring in the rest of the ingredients in the order given.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour.
• Let set about 10 minutes before serving.

MY FAVORITE BASIC POTATO KUGEL (BAKED)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 500 F, 475 if using a.
• Crack eggs into small bowl and mix well with salt and white pepper. Pour into food processor bowl.
• Pour oil into a 9" round baking pan (disposable is fine). Place pan in oven.
• Working very quickly to prevent potatoes from browning (and oil from burning), peel, wash, and grate potatoes on high speed using a grating blade, not a shredding, pureeing, or blending blade. (This is typically a blade that has both very tiny and larger holes in it and makes the potatoes into a "mush" that is not smooth but has very tiny bits of potato, though not big lumps or long stringy shreds.).
• Remove pan with oil from oven, and pour oil into potato mixture. Mix well with rubber scaper to scrape down sides of bowl.
• Spray pan with nonstick cooking spray, pour in batter, and bake for 45-60 min or until top is dark and crusty with a deep brown color.
• Note: For a really white kugel, I recommend you refrigerate the potatoes for several hours or overnight. The colder they are, the longer it takes for them to turn brown, which would give your kugel a darker color. I put the potatoes in the fridge as soon as I buy them, and if I don't take them out until every other step is done and I'm ready to peel and grate them immediately, I get a lovely-looking kugel that is almost snow white!