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Tracy’s potato latkes

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13 October 2025
Easy

I love potato latkes, they are the absolute go-to when you have run out of ideas to feed your kids or if you want to serve a delicious cocktail snack. In South Africa, we serve them hot out of the pan sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. The Germans in particular love a latke with stewed apples.  The Americans eat them with salt and look at us askance when we serve them with cinnamon sugar. They’re wonderful with smoked salmon and cream cheese, too. You can make them gluten-free by substituting flour with potato flour, this works beautifully. The oil must be rather hot.  The secret to a good latke is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
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Ingredients

Method
  • 3 medium potatoes
  • 1 t pink salt
  • 2 free-range eggs, beaten
  • 4 T flour
  • vegetable oil, for frying

Method

Ingredients

1. Grate the potatoes on the thick side of the grater. Squeeze out as much liquid as possible, place in a large bowl, then add the salt, eggs and flour. Mix thoroughly. Shape into patties, again squeezing out the excess liquid.

2. Heat the oil in a pan and add the latkes. Do not overcrowd the pan. Fry on one side until golden, then turn and cook until golden. Turn once only. Remove from the and drain on kitchen paper. Serve hot with cinnamon sugar or stewed apples. Or allow to cool slightly and top with cream cheese and smoked salmon.

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Production: Khanya Mzongwana
Photographer: Toby Murphy
Tracy Klass

Recipe by: Tracy Klass

Tracy Klass has reinvented herself roughly every 20 years with one constant: a deep love of cooking and feeding people. She’s been a marketing manager while raising three kids as a single mother, a stand-up comedian, and almost had a stage show when Covid hit. Once again, she pivoted, this time to launch A Taste of Klass, bringing traditional Ashkenazi Jewish cooking to modern tables. Today, Tracy runs A Taste of Klass full-time from her kitchen in Observatory in Cape Town, proving that it’s never too late to start again – especially when there’s something delicious at the end of it.

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