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Potato Pancakes

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1000 g Potatoes (raw)
• 1 Stk Egg
• 0.12 L sour cream
• Salt (nach Bedarf)
• cooking fat (nach Bedarf)
• ham (finely sliced, optional) (nach Bedarf)
• Pickled cucumbers (finely sliced, optional) (nach Bedarf)
• Apples (peeled, finely sliced, optional) (nach Bedarf)

Instructions

1. Peel raw potatoes and grate them into a bowl of cold water.
2. Strain the grated mixture through a kitchen towel into a bowl and press firmly.
3. Once the pressed starch settles to the bottom, carefully pour off the excess water.
4. Mix the remaining starch with the grated potatoes, some salt, the egg, and sour cream thoroughly.
5. Form thin, palm-sized pancakes from the mixture and quickly fry them golden brown on both sides in hot fat.
6. Serve with lettuce or applesauce as a side dish.
7. If desired, the potato mixture can be refined before frying with finely sliced ham, pickles, or peeled apples.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.