Potato Pancakes German Kartoffelpuffer Food

POTATO PANCAKES (GERMAN KARTOFFELPUFFER)

Steps:

• Thoroughly wring out the liquid in the grated potatoes by placing them in a colander and squeezing them with your hands or by placing them in a clean dish towel and wringing out the liquid.
• Place the drained grated potatoes in a medium-sized bowl with the grated onion, eggs, flour and salt and use your hands to work it into a tacky mixture. Add a little more flour if needed. Do no let the mixture sit for long before using it, use it immediately.
• Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a non-stick pan over medium-high heat and place 1/3 to 1/2 cup of the mixture (depending on size preference) in the hot pan and flatten into pancakes with the back of a spoon. Fry on both sides for 3-5 minutes until the Kartoffelpuffer are golden. Place them briefly on paper towels.
• Serve immediately while hot with applesauce, fruit compote or powdered sugar. For a savory version serve with herbed yogurt, quark or creme fraiche or with meat and gravy as part of a meal.

GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES - KARTOFFELPUFFER

Steps:

• Peel and grate potatoes (or use frozen or refrigerated hashbrowns). Place the grated potatoes in a clean dishcloth or cheesecloth and squeeze the liquid out of them into a bowl. Let the liquid stand a few minutes, then drain the liquid, leaving potato starch at the bottom of the bowl. Add the potatoes.
• Grate the onion over the potatoes. Add dried onion flakes for part or all of the onion, if you like. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and egg. Mix thoroughly.
• Heat oil in a frying pan. You can use a non-stick pan and just a few drops of oil, if you wish, but for best results use 1/8 to 1/4 inch of oil.
• Using about 1/2 cup, drop the potato mixture into hot oil and flatten with the back of a spoon. Fry 4-5 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve hot with applesauce and maybe a sprinkle of cinnamon.

GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat together eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper. Mix in potatoes and onion.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. In batches, drop heaping tablespoonfuls of the potato mixture into the skillet. Press to flatten. Cook about 3 minutes on each side, until browned and crisp. Drain on paper towels.

KARTOFFELPUFFER (GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES) #SP5

Steps:

• Grate the onion on the large section of a box grater into a bowl to retain the onion juice.
• Add the Simply Potato hash browns, Mix in the eggs, sprinkle 1 Tablespoon Flour and 1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder.
• Drop 1 Heaping tablespoon Hash browns into medium hot skillet with 8 tablespoons of oil. Spread outward to create a cake about only 1/16" thickness-do not crowd skillet. Crisp the bottom about 3 minutes, flip and cook about 2 minutes.
• Drain on paper towel; keep warm on wire rack in warm oven as you cook additional batches.

GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES (KARTOFFELPUFFER)

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Wash, peel, and coarsely grate the potatoes.
• Place the grated potatoes in a clean dishcloth or cheesecloth and squeeze out as much of the liquid as you can into a bowl.
• Let the liquid stand a few minutes, then carefully spoon out and discard the top layer of liquid, leaving the potato starch at the bottom of the bowl.
• Add the potatoes back to the starch.
• Grate the onion over the potatoes.
• Add the salt, pepper, nutmeg, and egg. Mix thoroughly.
• Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet, preferably nonstick, until it begins to shimmer.
• Drop about 1/2 cup of potato mixture into the hot oil and flatten with the back of a spoon. Fry, undisturbed, 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
• Drain on paper towels, and serve hot with applesauce and sour cream, if you like. Garnish with parsley, if desired.

GERMAN POTATO PANCAKES RECIPE (KARTOFFELPUFFER)

Steps:

• Use a clean kitchen towel to wrap the grated potatoes.
• Squeeze as much liquid as you can out of the potatoes.
• Transfer the squeezed potatoes into a medium-sized bowl and add salt, pepper, a pinch of nutmeg, and yolks.
• Mix evenly.
• Using a medium to a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat.
• Once the oil is ready, use a spoon to scoop a portion of the potato pancake mixture and place it carefully in the pan.
• Use the same spoon to flatten the pancake and form it into a round shape.
• Repeat until enough potato pancakes are in the pan --- and try to keep some distance in between.
• Cook kartoffelpuffer on both sides, then remove them once they're golden in color.
• Place the potato pancakes on kitchen paper to drain any excess oil.
• Serve your kartoffelpuffer right away --- with some applesauce, as the locals do.