How to Make a Potato Pancake
Here is the traditional and fundamental way of making delicious potato pancakes. In this recipe, it shows two convenient ways in making potato pancakes, either to fry or to bake, depending on your preference. These pancakes contain the usual mixture of shredded potatoes, flour, baking powder, eggs and spices. The easier way is frying the pancakes but the healthier way is baking them in the oven. But any of the two ways will still end up into delicious and flavorful potato pancakes that you can serve as a side dish or even as desserts for any meal of the day. Now, here’s how to make it.
Ingredients
- 8 medium red unpeeled potatoes, shredded
- 1 large sweet onion, minced
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour (45 g)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder (2.5 g)
- 1 tablespoon dried rosemary (15 g)
- 1 tablespoon salt (15 g)
- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper (10 g)
- 1½ teaspoons lime juice (13 ml)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (30 ml)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat the eggs thoroughly.
- Add red potatoes, onion, flour, baking powder, rosemary, salt, pepper, and lime juice. Mix very well.
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Scoop about ⅔ cup of the potato mixture into the skillet, and press down with a spatula into a rounded-flat pancake shape, or If you want to bake these pancakes, place scoops of potato mixture into a greased baking sheet and flatten the same way
- Fry for 3 to 4 minutes on each side, until crisp and golden brown. Repeat with remaining potato mixture, or bake potato mixture in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees F, remove baking sheet from oven, flip the pancakes and return to oven to cook the other side until golden brown.
- Remove from pan and drain on paper towels.
- Serve warm and enjoy!
