Latkaland Potato Latkes
This is the recipe that Oily and the Lunchkins (characters from Adventure in Latkaland) follow when they make their latkes. If you can’t find Potatoland potatoes in your neighbourhood grocery store, russet potatoes are an excellent substitute.
A grownup should definitely help with this recipe – especially when the latkes have to be fried in lots and lots of boiling hot oil!
Ingredients
4-5 Potatoland (or russet) potatoes, peeled
1 small onion, peeled
2 eggs
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
Lots of vegetable oil for frying
Directions:
Grate the potato and the onion. Your grownup helper can use the grating attachment on a food processor for this step – it’s much faster.
Squeeze as much liquid out of the potato-onion mixture as you can. The Lunchkins use two different methods:
Edible Menorah
This is a quick, fun food craft that is also delicious to eat.
Ingredients
(for one menorah)
5 two-bite brownies (you can make your own, if you’d like, using your favourite brownie recipe and a mini-muffin tin)
6 sandwich cookies
9 small orange jelly beans (or red – these are your flames, so you choose)
Icing (store-bought is fine, or you can just make a paste with icing sugar and a few drops of milk or water)
9 toothpicks
A cardboard rectangle – about 11 inches by 3 inches (this can be cut from a shoe box, or any other box)
Tin foil – enough to completely cover the cardboard so that your menorah base is silver
Apple Latkes
These sweet latkes make a great breakfast treat – at Hanukkah or any other time. Just don’t let the Lunchkins know that you’re using apples in place of potatoes!
Ingredients
3 medium sized apples (golden delicious work well), peeled
1 tablespoon of lemon juice (optional, but will stop your apple from turning brown)
2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1/3 cup of sugar
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1½ cups of milk
1 teaspoon of cinnamon (optional)
Lots of vegetable oil for frying