My Best Ever Hanukkah Potato Latkes are baked not fried

Baked Latkes

Fried grated potato and carrot latkes

 My Best Ever Hanukkah potato latkes are baked, not fried. The first night of Hanukkah I invited our extended family over to celebrate the holiday.. I made four different kinds of latkes: three were fried and one was baked .Believe it or not the favorite of the crowd, which I am now calling my best ever Hanukkah latkes, were  the " Baked Latkes"
The choices were  Harriet's fried Blender Potato latkes ( vegan alternative) , Weight Watcher style sauteed broccoli slaw latkes, coconut oil fried grated potato/.carrot latkes and my potato cheese baked latkes ( recipe below) ! Don't get me wrong, they were all good, and not one of the sixty latkes were left over , but everyone loved the baked potato cheese latkes!

Next year, I'm sticking with this baked version! After all frying is very time consuming, really smells up the house, your clothes, etc. and personally I don't like to eat fried food because I need to lose weight. So there you have it. Baked in my house is best!

Ingredients:

6 large baking potatoes (about 750 g), peeled and grated

2 carrots, grated
1 cup of grated cheese ( I used Parmesan that I hand grated,can't use the powdery stuff) 

3 eggs

5 scallions, finely chopped 

Salt, freshly ground pepper


Grate potatoes and carrots. Wring as much liquid from them as possible. It is easiest in a clean tea towel - .Stir  together all ingredients well. 

Preheat oven to 425. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil. Be sure to spray with a little oil or the latkes my stick. Drop tablespoons full and flatten somewhat onto the cookies sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes-20 minutes until crispy.   Take them out and serve immediately. Top with Plain Greek Yogurt or homemade applesauce.

Grate potatoes  and carrots ( I did mine by hand  but you can use your food processor )
and wring out water

carrot, potato, eggs, and grated cheese mixture

                               

Baked Latkes

                                                   

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