Thread: Potato Pancakes

Originally Posted by fortheether

Yulia65,
Strange that one video the liquid is squeezed from the potatoes and the other not.

К тому же, в одном видео картошку натирают очень мелко, а в другом -- довольно крупно.

I have had very mixed success with potato pancakes -- often they turn out gray and rubbery, not crisp and brown. (Unless I use a packaged "latke mix," which always turns out well.)

I will definitely try the "mashed potato" version, which I've never seen before. (Every recipe I've tried tells you to grate the raw potatoes and then squeeze out the liquid.)

P.S. Now, if anyone has suggestions for making сырники with Italian ricotta and/or American cottage cheese, instead of Russian творог, that would be really great!

Throbert,
To prevent raw potatoes from turning gray, you have to add raw onions. So next time try to grate alternatively onions and potatoes, and mix them.

As many cooks, as many variations of cooking the same dish. E.g., there are over 300 variations of cooking Ukrainian borshch!

Speaking about Ricotta cheese, I recently learned how to make Ricotta cheese pancakes with blueberries, they really MELT in your mouth! I'll try to post that recipe tomorrow.