UnPotato Latkes
Source of Recipe
Dana Carpender
List of Ingredients
1 cup shredded cauliflower
1 cup shredded turnip
1 teaspoon salt, or Vege-Sal
3 eggs
1/4 cup Ketatoes mix, original flavor
1/4 cup Atkins bake mix
1 medium onion, grated
1/2 teaspoon pepper
Recipe
1. You'll want to shred your cauliflower and turnip on the shredding
blade of your food processor. Combine the two in a bowl, and sprinkle
the salt over the two, stirring as you do so, so the salt is well
distributed. Let the salted cauliflower and turnip sit for at least an
hour, and two won't hurt.
2. Okay, come back to your shredded cauliflower and turnip, and dump
them into a strainer. Using clean hands, squeeze all the moisture you
can out of them. Put them back in the bowl.
3. Grate your onion, and add it to the cauliflower and turnip. Now add
onion, then the eggs, Ketatoes mix, Atkins bake mix, and pepper. Using
a whisk or a fork, stir everything together until it's all
well-combined. The mixture will be quite thick.
4. Put your large, heavy-bottomed skillet over medium high heat. Give
it a squirt of non-stick cooking spray first, if you like. Then pour in
oil -- I used olive oil, but use what you like -- to a depth of about
1/2". Let it heat until a tiny bit of the latke mixture sizzles when
dropped in. Then spoon in the batter, about 2 tablespoons per latke.
Fry until well-browned on both sides -- maybe 5 minutes per side.
5. Serve with sour cream, if you like -- I understand that's traditional
-- or with a low carb preserve, or both -- but these are awfully good as-is.
I got 16 latkes, which I figure will serve 8 as a side dish. Each
serving will have 8 grams of carbohydrate, with 3 grams of fiber, for a
usable carb count of just 5 grams. 10 grams of protein. Hard to know
exactly how many calories, because who knows how much oil they absorb?
Don't stint on the oil, however. Eating foods fried in plenty of oil is
a Hanukkah tradition because it commemorates the oil that miraculously
burned for 8 days during the rebuilding of the temple, or so my source
material tells me.
I'd send you more holiday recipes, but my main computer has crashed with
all my holiday recipes from readers in it! I'm working from my
auxiliary computer, and thank heavens I have such a thing. The
Webmaster (aka That Nice Boy I Married) assures me that the main
computer will live again, complete with my recipe files, but it may not
be revived until after my Christmas break. So I'm afraid you'll all
just have to make do with latkes.
Have a wonderful holiday, whatever you celebrate!! (Me, I'm really
excited that after Monday the days get longer...)
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