Recipe: Vegan Potato Pancakes

[Megan Hobza]

"Megan came up with a great menu for last week's hm157 dinner! I would
love to have this recipe!"

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Thanks for the request, Quynh!  See below for three recipes to meet your vegan potato pancake needs:

- Vegan Potato Pancakes
- Raw Applesauce
- Cashew Sour Cream

Vegan Potato Pancakes

• 5 lbs russet potatoes, grated in food processor
• 5 yellow onions, grated
• ¾+ cup gluten-free flour (such as potato starch, oat flour, rice flour, etc.)
  
• 4 tsp baking powder+2 Tbsp oil+4 Tbsp water (gluten-free vegan egg replacer)
  
• 1 Tbsp salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• Safflower oil, for frying

- Place potatoes in a salad spinner, spin out excess liquid. Pour off liquid and place potatoes in bowl. Add onion, flour, vegan egg replacer (beaten together), salt, and pepper, and mix well.
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat a thin layer of oil. Take a heaping tablespoon (Tbsp) of batter and flatten it before gently placing in hot oil. Make three or four more potato pancakes this way, and add to skillet without crowding pan. Fry until golden brown on both sides, turning once, about 8 minutes total. Repeat with remaining potato mixture, adding more oil as necessary.
- Stir potato mixture between batches; add 1/4 cup flax flour if pancakes aren't holding together. Place cooked potato pancakes on paper bags to drain, then transfer to an ovenproof platter and keep warm in oven.

Raw Applesauce
In a food processor, blend:

• 5 large cored, chopped apples (skins on)
• ⅛ c jaggery or any raw sugar
• ¼ c fresh coconut water (or raw apple juice)
• ¼+ c lemon juice
• ½ t cinnamon
  

Let the food processor run for ten minutes to get the apples as finely blended as possible.  Add a little more lemon juice or coconut water if the blending is sluggish.  Makes about a quart.

Cashew Sour Cream

• 3 cups cashew cream (blend labeled jar of soaked cashews with soaking water)

• Add juice of one lemon (more to taste), 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast, and a small pinch of salt.
  
• Blend until creamy in Vitamix or Blendtec.