Ina Garten's Potato Latkes | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

[Music] i'll make a special breakfast for jeffrey it's potato latkes with applesauce something from my childhood my mother used to make them when i was little basically two baking potatoes that i peeled and i'm just grating them a box grater you can actually do it in a food processor on the grating disk but for two potatoes it's not worth making a mess you don't want to do this too long in advance because the potatoes are brown not pretty the big thing here is keep your fingers out of the grater okay so that's two potatoes so i take a clean kitchen towel and just put the potatoes right inside and just roll the kitchen towel around it and then just squeeze it right over the sink so you get as much liquid out of it as you can possibly get this is actually why baking potatoes are good for this and the other potato has much more moisture in it baking potatoes tend to be a little dry okay fantastic right into the bowl okay next i need one egg just beat it for a second right into the potatoes three tablespoons of flour so it's really like making pancakes but it has potato in it okay one and a quarter teaspoons of salt and a quarter teaspoon of pepper and just give it a big stir okay ready to fry the pancakes it's like time to make the donuts so i'm just going to heat up a big pan you don't want to crowd them because you want them to really fry nicely and i've made some clarified butter which is really helpful it doesn't burn at a high temperature three tablespoons of clarified butter clarified butter is really important because the milk solids and butter are going to burn you don't want this to so to make clarified butter what you do is heat butter and just let it settle the milk salsa come out to the bottom and then you pour off the clear golden liquid and that's clarified butter okay clarified butter is nice and hot it's got a tablespoon of pancake mix right in for orders i do little potato pancakes but for this i think i'm going to do a heaping tablespoon for each one just for jeffrey and me or is he going to be happy so i think i'll get probably six out of this which is perfect three for him three for me so i'm just going to let them brown on one side for a few minutes then i'm going to flip them over do these smell good there's something wonderful about those crisp potato pancakes and that sort of creamy applesauce such a great combination i think they smell like they're just about ready to go would you see this perfect absolutely perfect potato pancake just check each one before you turn it over make sure it's just perfectly golden brown on the underside hi babe hey what you got i'm making breakfast for us you're making breakfast for me yeah what do you know what really happened okay how about potato pancakes and applesauce what a great combination a very old-fashioned eastern european jewish i tell you what and you and i and that's us fashion eastern european juice [Laughter] and i think breakfast is served really good wow well i hope you like them well they look really good i don't know your grandmother's very good cook i'm worried they weren't as good as hers yeah actually they look better than actually real crisp mmm

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Id: IKVl0sDPsr8

Length: 3min 35sec (215 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 12 2017