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Sweet potato latkes

By Phillippa Cheifitz
Makes about 30
Easy
30 minutes
30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 kg sweet potatoes
  • 1 medium onion
  • 2 free-range eggs, beaten
  • 3 T potato starch
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • canola oil, for frying
  • za’atar, for sprinkling

Method

1. Wash and peel the potatoes and onion, then grate coarsely. Wrap in muslin cloth or a clean tea towel and squeeze out the excess moisture over a bowl.

2. Keep the liquid in the bowl, allowing a few minutes for the starch to settle to the bottom. Carefully pour off the liquid but keep the potato starch.

3. Mix the potatoes and onion with the eggs, potato starch and seasoning. Drop spoonfuls – 2 T for each latke – into the hot oil, spreading and flattening with a fork. If necessary, you could add a little cornflour to the mixture to make sure they hold together. Shallow-fry over a medium heat until golden – about 3 minutes a side. Drain on kitchen paper.

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Photographs: Toby Murphy
Production: Brita Du Plessis
Food assistant: Sophia-Maria Eygelaar