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Enjoy Latkes Year-Round! And a Giveaway!

January 1, 2016 by Maya Fitz

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When I think back to some of my favourite foods, they are usually prepared for a specific holiday meal. For most people, holiday food is associated with happy memories and even a small scent can trigger thoughts of loved ones enjoying time together. It’s no wonder that my husband’s favourite meal of all-time is Turkey dinner as that’s what his mother prepared for Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas. Personally, I’m a big fan of my mom’s chicken soup and liver pate. Now that the holidays are over, it got me thinking how it’s a shame that we don’t eat some of the food that we prepare for our holiday meals year round. But why can’t we?

That’s why I’m sharing one of my favourite holiday recipes with you today and encouraging you to eat it year-round! Hanukkah was just last month and one of my favourite dishes from this holiday is latkes (potato pancakes for those of you not familiar with the term).

Hanukkah

Since Hanukkah is a celebration of the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days, we tend to eat lots of food that’s fried in oil. It might not be the best for our wasitelines, but it’s delicious. There’s a reason potato latkes are a crowd pleaser at most restaurants that serve them! Of course, there are healthy varations including substituting sweet potatoes or zucchini instead of white potatoes and baking the latkes instead of frying them.  Here are two easy recipes for both fried and baked latkes (which also make for some great looking appetizers). My son loves helping me make these and I even cooked some in his class last month.  I hope you will enjoy eating these latkes year round with your family, friends and loved ones! Happy 2016!

cooking latkes

Fried Latkes

Serving size: 6 – 8 people

Ingredients: 4 potatoes, 1 small onion, 1 egg, 1/2 cup flour, salt & paprika for flavour

Instructions:

  1. Peal and grate 4 potatoes and onion in a mixing bowl. mix in egg, flour and seasoning.
  2. Place the pan over medium heat. Add 1/2 cup of canola oil.
  3. Using a spoon, scoop out the mixture in the pan and pat the mixture flat.
  4. Once the bottom side turns crispy (i.e. light brown), turn it over and cook the other side.
  5. Remove from pan once both sides are light brown and crispy.
  6. Serve with Gay Lea Sour Cream and Apple Sauce

traditional latkes recipe

Bakes Latkes

Serving size: 6 – 8 people

Ingredients: 4 potatoes, 1 small onion, 1 egg, salt & paprika for flavour

Instructions:

  1. Set oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Peal and grate 4 potatoes and onion in a mixing bowl. mix in egg, and seasoning.
  3. Coat muffin tin with spray butter.
  4. Using a spoon, scoop out the mixture in each tin and pat the mixture flat. Don’t fill the tins all the way to the top.
  5. Bake for 40 – 45 minutes, until top of latkes are light brown and crispy.
  6. Serve with Gay Lea Sour Cream and Apple Sauce

baked latkes

These make for great appetizers too!

GIVEAWAY

To help you enjoy your favourite holiday meal year round, I’m giving away 12 coupons for free Gay Lea product! Enter the giveaway via Rafflecopter (please give it a few seconds to load).  Contest is open to all residents of Canada, excluding Quebec.  Contest ends Monday January 4, 2016.

latkes

 

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Disclosure: I am part of the Gay Lea Ambassador Campaign and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.

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What Others Are Saying:

  1. joy says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:30 pm

    we love our Chinese food on NYE — it is a tradition to stuff ourselves silly!

  2. mrdisco1 says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    i love me some good mashed potatoes and gravy

  3. Athena says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    I love turkey and stuffing.

  4. Cassie says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:33 pm

    I absolutely love all the cold cut meals we do on New years eve and Christmas eve followed by other days I am felling like munchin lol

  5. Wendy hutton says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    I love stuffing cranberry sauce and turkey

  6. Jeannie Lam says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    I love shortbread cookies and cheesy bacon scalloped potatoes.

  7. J says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    Cinnamon buns and fresh bread with dried fruit.

    • Zoey Jiru says

      January 1, 2016 at 2:38 pm

      And holiday-themed cookies.

  8. Nate Fuller says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:39 pm

    My favorite meal during the holidays is Chinese food, which we get instead of a typical turkey which in my opinion gets a little old after a few decades!

  9. Vivian D. says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    I love homemade shortbread.

  10. Betty S says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:49 pm

    favourite food is scalloped potatoes,

  11. Silvia D says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    just turkey dinner with homemade cranberry sauce

  12. Cheryl says

    January 1, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    I love making lots of cookies and sweets during the holidays

  13. Karrie C says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    Smoked turkey!

  14. 409cope says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    I love turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy!

  15. Brenda Penton says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    I love shortbread cookies during the holidays

  16. Anne Taylor says

    January 1, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    We love going for a great Japanese meal every year on Christmas Eve! After that, it would be our turkey dinner!

  17. Amy Heffernan says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    Fruit Cake!

  18. Ira says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Made from scratch real cakes. NO boxes ever! I can bake a lot of them from my moms, MILs and grand moms recipes.

  19. redlizzy1 says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    I love a dark, rich Christmas cake. Not sure why it gets such a bad rap. I love it.

  20. Judy Cowan says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    My favourite holiday meal has to be the turkey dinner, just love it! Going to have to try make latkes, they sound good!

  21. SweetPanda says

    January 1, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    My favourite is turkey and mashed potatoe

  22. Francine says

    January 1, 2016 at 5:08 pm

    homemade shortbread is my favourite

  23. Pam says

    January 1, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    I love having lobster over the holidays and peanut butter balls, and cheese balls and charcuterie.

  24. prairiebelle says

    January 1, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    I love butter tarts!

  25. Doris Calvert says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    I love cabbage rolls and perogy’s

  26. Jolie says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Love shortbread cookies.

  27. lyndac1968 says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    it would have to be the turkey, we only have it at Christmas, so once a year and when it gets close to Christmas I start craving the turkey

  28. beth says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:56 pm

    I iove ham and turkey

  29. Tina L. says

    January 1, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    I like turkey and stuffing.

  30. Florence C says

    January 1, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    I love turkey, dressing, gravy and cranberry sauce.

  31. talah says

    January 1, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    i love perogies and meat on a stick…love that you make these in the oven, will try! rafflecoptercharityk

  32. missbobloblaw says

    January 1, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    I love all of the baked goodies like butter tarts & nanaimo bars!

  33. Erika Letson says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    My favourite is a baked ham dinner with scalloped potatoes. Thanks for the giveaway!

  34. loucheryl says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    Turkey dinner is my favourite holiday food meal. 🙂

  35. edmontonjb says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:21 pm

    I love hot turkey sandwiches with the leftover turkey and gravy. We always have this the day after our big turkey dinner.

    Jonnie

  36. Tricia Cooper says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:43 pm

    I love shortbread cookies and some of the other cookies/bars that we don’t usually have throughout the year!

  37. sojeles says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:45 pm

    Dessert is my favourite of any meal…but there’s just something about stuffing.

  38. billiondollarprincesss says

    January 1, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    Turkey is my fave with all the fixins!

  39. Bailey Dexter says

    January 1, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    I love to make and nibble on church windows squares. love the creamy butter taste with caramel!

  40. mags c (@magscheung) says

    January 1, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    I love apple crumble pie with icecream along with shortbread!

  41. cottagebunny says

    January 1, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    I love making Chinese food and add some leftover turkey and celery to my rice,
    bamboo sprouts and egg rolls

    We find it an awesome way to use up the tasty turkey left overs.

  42. Karla Sceviour says

    January 1, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    ohh turkey and stuffing,..and anything else,,I love all food.lol.:)

  43. Jennifer (@Mindfulcat7) says

    January 1, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    I love shortbread cookies.

  44. michie2003 says

    January 1, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    turkey

  45. Monique L.S. says

    January 1, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    I do enjoy a good turkey dinner.

  46. Cloe St-Amour says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    turkey dinner of course!

  47. Katharine Wong (@marbles999) says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    Mashed potatoes with gravy

  48. Nicole says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    I love fondue – we make it New Year’s Eve.

  49. ivy pluchinsky says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    I love sugar cookies and short bread

  50. Tammy Dalley says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:37 pm

    shortbreads

  51. Elizabeth Matthiesen says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    I love a big turkey dinner with all the trimmings, yorkshires, sage & onion stuffing, parsley & thyme stuffing, cranberry jelly, brown potatoes (Danish), red cabbage (German) and of course a super gravy 🙂

  52. Yuen C says

    January 1, 2016 at 11:58 pm

    I like a good turkey dinner

  53. Lindsay T says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:03 am

    My favourite holiday meal is Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy!

  54. michelle matta says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:12 am

    Nanaimo bars are my favourite. sad to see them go for another year

  55. Robyn Bellefleur says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:48 am

    My favorite food for the holidays is the stuffing. It is usually the only time of year that I get it.

  56. ginette4 says

    January 2, 2016 at 1:11 am

    My favourite holiday food is my husband’s homemade lasagna

  57. aly3360 says

    January 2, 2016 at 1:17 am

    I love eating and making short breads and ham over the holidays.

    – Amber y

  58. Tainan Lu says

    January 2, 2016 at 1:33 am

    turkey and stuffing

  59. Juliee Fitze says

    January 2, 2016 at 6:39 am

    Your latkes brought back a lot of memories for me, my grams always made them and we would have cream corn and sausage with them.

  60. Victoria Ess says

    January 2, 2016 at 7:29 am

    I love turkey!

  61. Courtney says

    January 2, 2016 at 8:59 am

    I love butter tarts. I made over 60 this Christmas!

  62. Linda Klages says

    January 2, 2016 at 10:58 am

    scalloped potatoes & ham

  63. Nicole (@nicoleroannef) says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    I love stuffing, something I only enjoy around the holidays.

  64. naiddia p says

    January 2, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    I love to eat cheesecake.

  65. josephine evans says

    January 2, 2016 at 1:17 pm

    The whole Christmas feast! Turkey, stuffing, potatoes… all of it!

  66. Josh S says

    January 2, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Turkey with potatoes.

  67. Gillian Morgan says

    January 2, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    WHIPPED SHORTBREAD IS MY FAVOURITE HOLIDAY TREAT.

  68. Glogirl says

    January 2, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    My favourite holiday food would be a turkey dinner with stuffing, gravy and mashed potatoes.

  69. hollyogorman says

    January 2, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    I love stuffing.

  70. Erin McSweeney says

    January 2, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    my moms broccoli blue cheese casserole

  71. beewbedard says

    January 2, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    mine is turkey and stuffing

    • Debrakotnik@gmai says

      January 2, 2016 at 11:13 pm

      Me too! My favorite

  72. DianeG says

    January 2, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    My favourite holiday food is the Christmas Day turkey, stuffing and gravy.

  73. Valerie Mallette says

    January 2, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    My favourite holiday meal is turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and veggies.

  74. Julie Bolduc says

    January 2, 2016 at 11:59 pm

    I love turkey and gravy

  75. Sandra F. says

    January 3, 2016 at 12:07 am

    Garlic mashed potatoes and cheesecake

  76. Brenda Lacourciere says

    January 3, 2016 at 5:39 am

    Mine is shortbread cookies. It is the only time of the year that I have them.

  77. angelehm says

    January 3, 2016 at 7:28 am

    definitely turkey and roast beef sandwiches with lettuce,mayo and love. I am going to try your latkes they sound lovely and easy . win win

  78. Elizabeth R says

    January 3, 2016 at 8:22 am

    I love all the Christmas cookies, especially gingerbread.

  79. Viv Sluys says

    January 3, 2016 at 11:34 am

    My Grandma’s butter tarts are my favourite holiday food.

  80. newfiechick72 says

    January 3, 2016 at 11:52 am

    I love Turkey Dinner …that’s our holiday meal.

  81. tanyab79 says

    January 3, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    Love the homemade butter tarts, pete de soeurs and meat pies.

  82. Mandy says

    January 3, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    My fave holiday food is prime rib followed with lemon meringue pies.

  83. elaing8 says

    January 3, 2016 at 4:23 pm

    Turkey and gravy is my favorite.

  84. Melanie Barclay says

    January 3, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    I love turkey dinner and stuffing, oh and mashed potatoes and squash and gravy!

  85. Christy E says

    January 3, 2016 at 7:04 pm

    My favorite holiday food is shortbread!

  86. Lee-Ann says

    January 3, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Shortbread – it’s not a real holiday without that buttery goodness!

  87. Eldon says

    January 3, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    I like egg tarts

  88. Stephanie says

    January 3, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    I like Christmas cake (surprisingly)

  89. Soozle says

    January 4, 2016 at 8:03 am

    I like cabbage rolls (we only have them at Christmas!)

  90. ANNA Mary Foster says

    January 4, 2016 at 11:08 am

    Oh my favorite food has to be Thai food so delicious

  91. nicolthepickle says

    January 4, 2016 at 11:49 am

    I like croquettes. We don’t make them often so it’s pretty special.

  92. Lushka Smith says

    January 4, 2016 at 12:12 pm

    Turkey

  93. September Dee says

    January 4, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    Latkes are delicious and so simple to make. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

  94. Nicole B says

    January 4, 2016 at 12:57 pm

    I love turkey with my husbands stuffing. It’s the best ever!

  95. Melinda Jana (@Sukki24) says

    January 4, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    latkes! since I’ve been introduced to them, they are my absolute fav

  96. Angela Mitchell says

    January 4, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    I love turkey stuffing and cranberry sauce.

  97. kathy downey says

    January 4, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    My favourite holiday food is Broken Glass cake my Mom makes for Christmas Eve,she has been making it over 70 years,a yummy treat the whole family enjoys

  98. Maria says

    January 4, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    I love green bean casserole, mashed garlic potatoes, ham & roasted veggies

  99. Brandee H says

    January 4, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    I love the perfect holiday meal of my moms cooking: turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes and stuffing again! And brussels and turnip.

  100. marie s says

    January 4, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    I love stuffing! that’s all I want is stuffing

  101. Chris Stockford says

    January 4, 2016 at 10:51 pm

    Turkey and mashed potatoes

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I’m a stay-at-home-mom to three awesome, busy boys. We reside in Toronto and I blog about the ups and downs of parenting, family travels, our favourite products and more.

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