Potato Pancakes Polish Recipes

Steps:

• Sauté onions, cabbage and garlic until soft.
• Peel and fine-grate potatoes, or dice and use a blender. The potatoes need to be a real purée. It's ok to add water to blend, as later you MUST put the potatoes into a fine mesh strainer and let the water seep out.
• After 2 or 3 strainings to remove excess water (takes 30 minutes or so), put potato "mud" into a bowl and add egg, salt, pepper, and flour and mix well.
• Add sautéed onion-cabbage mixture to potatoes, mixing well.
• Heat thin layer of oil in electric frypan at 300° F, drop large spoonfuls of mixture into pan and smooth out to a thin pancake about 3-4" in diameter.
• Cook about 5-7 minutes a side until nicely browned and crisp.
• Place on a paper towel lined plate, keeping warm as you do other batches.
• Serve with sour cream.

Steps:

• Finely grate potatoes and rinse with cold water 3 times till water runs clear. Add potato, onion in a large bowl with garlic. Drain and press out as much moisture as possible, using paper towels.
• Add egg yolk, flour, salt, peppers and parsley. Mix thoroughly.
• Fold in egg white.
• In a heavy skillet, pour in 1/4-inch of the oil and heat over high heat. For each pancake, drop in a heaping tablespoon of the mixture and press down with spatula. Brown until crisp on both sides.
• Enjoyed season with salt and pepper.