bride of cow....a question...

how do you make sweet potato latkes???

The same way as ordinary potato latkes (but no onion).

Grate the sweet potato, sqeeze the shreds if they are too wet, add an egg, a pinch of salt (and a pinch of baking powder if you want them fluffy), and enough flour to make a pancake consistency.

Since they have sugars in them, I fry them at a lower heat than the regular ones, to make sure they cook through before getting fully brown.

Serve with sour cream, apple sauce, or even better, apple butter.

Oh my, does that sound good. I'll have to try that. Never thought to use sweet potatoes..........Gram

BTW, does one wish Happy Chanukah, and what is the difference between that and Hannukah??? Not trying to be "flip" just to understand....Gram

gramofnine,
I found this.

The Cool Jewish December Holiday That Lasts For Over a Week

Welcome to A Caryn.com Hanukkah, a virtual Festival of Light. This Hanukkah site will bring you
information to learn about how to celebrate Hanukkah and light the menorah, Hanukkah songs to sing. and
recipes for Hanukkah latkes to eat. To answer the most popular question I get emailed every year: There is
absolutely NO difference between Hanukkah, Hannukah, Hanukah, Hanukah, Chanuka or Chanukah!
The reason there are so many spellings is that Hanukkah is an english transliteration of a word in another
language (Hebrew) and there just is no letter in English for the Hebrew sound that starts Hanukkah!
So some people approximate that with a"ch" and others do it with an "h". Why two k's or two n's? Creative
preference, I suppose, because there is no universally agreed upon wrong or right answer. Hope that helps
the Confused out there...and remember...there are no stupid questions when you are trying to learn about
a culture that is different from your own! It is only through understanding each other that we have any
hope for peace throughout this great world of ours, and only through our individual quests to know and
respect others that we can help the world move just a little bit farther in that general direction.

Thanks Alaska Prof, if I'd have had a brain in my head, I'd have thought to "Google."

In that case, Happy Chanukah/Hannukah, BOC.........Gram

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AP explained it well. Hebrew has a completely different alphabet, in which Chanukah is spelled with 4 letters, kh-n-k-h (vowels don't count as letters in Hebrew).

Anyway, I made the sweet potato latkes a bit differently last night.

I didn't squeeze out the shreds, which means they wept liquid, so I added a few tablespoons of flour (I didn't use any flour in my regular potato pancakes). Then, noticing how much the batter smelled like apples, I added a small pinch of cinnamon, and I served them with my new favorite syrup, agave nectar.

I'd fried the potato latkes first, until they were golden, and pretty much cooked through, and then put them on a cookie sheet in a 350 degree oven to finish cooking while I made the sweet potato ones. That way, everything was done and crispy at the same time. It was yummy.

That's funny, one of my friends mentioned at dinner last night that sweet potatoes are good for your health! So they are:

Sweet potato is the richest low-fat source of vitamin E. It contributes to heart health and is a good source of dietary antioxidants. It can help to regulate high blood pressure and also helps anaemia. It may also protect against inflammatory conditions.

I heard that recently too, ladyluck, so I've been trying to incorporate them into more meals, where previously I only served them for holidays.

sounds good...I might give those a try....wonder how a pinch of cinnamon would taste in the mix???

thanks...

see if I had read thru I would have seen you added cinnamon.....