Blender Potato Pancakes - so easy there's no excuse not to make them!

fancydude

Many cultures, including Polish, include potato pancakes in their culinary repetoire. Most of our grandmothers made them using the smallest side of the metal box graters. Very time consuming and messy work. Thanks to the blender you can make them in about 5 minutes! Which reminds me of one of the first jokes I remember being told as a young child, by my grandmother:

Two men are sitting on a park bench, in Central Park. They start talking after a bit; and one guy says "Do you like potato pancakes?" The second guy says "yeah." The first guy says "my wife thinks I'm crazy because I like potato pancakes." Second guy says "really? Lots of people like potato pancakes." First guy "I'm glad to hear you say that. So why don't you come to my house and have some, I have a whole closet full!"

Blender Potato Pancakes

3 cups cubed, raw potatoes (about 1 inch)
2 eggs
1/4 cup flour
1 small onion, quartered
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup milk

Wash, peel, and cut up potatoes, pat dry with paper towels. Put all ingredients into blender container. Cover. Blend on medium for about 10 seconds. Stop, and push down contents with rubber spatula if necessary. Repeat until you have a nice grainy batter, but you don't want them liquefied.

Spoon batter on hot greased griddle, using about a quarter cup for each pancake. Brown both sides.

*** Some people omit the milk, but I prefer it.

leatherbear

For this Great Recipe :jaj:

Kinsey6

Hi fancydude and family,

I made this Sunday evening and loved them.

My only suggestion is adding salt and ground pepper into the mix. I found them just a little bland and added this on top later. I also added a small dollop of sour cream on top when serving. I really liked this but David didn't. To each their own.

He suggested in the future to add some grated cheese to the mix. I followed up by suggesting a few dashes of tobasco.

Thank you for having shared this recipe with me and all of us.

Hugs,
Tim

fancydude

Dear Timmy:

There is salt in the recipe but I'm not sure why there is no pepper. And sour cream or applesauce served with potato pancakes is so automatic, I didn't even think to put it in the recipe! THANKS

I'm so happy to know you enjoyed them; and next time I make them, I'm going to add a dash of hot sauce too! It is also possible that blandness is inversely proportional to how hungry one is! I read during the Great Depression of the 1930's a man wrote there was so little food in his house that he rinsed out an empty catsup bottle with hot water and called it tomato soup!

fancydude

Dear Timmy:

There is salt in the recipe but I'm not sure why there is no pepper. And sour cream or applesauce served with potato pancakes is so automatic, I didn't even think to put it in the recipe! THANKS

I'm so happy to know you enjoyed them; and next time I make them, I'm going to add a dash of hot sauce too! It is also possible that blandness is inversely proportional to how hungry one is! I read during the Great Depression of the 1930's a man wrote there was so little food in his house that he rinsed out an empty catsup bottle with hot water and called it tomato soup!