If a bot barely hours old can do it, certainly you can too. Bear with me, and together we’ll stretch both your pantries and your imaginations. I think you’ll find that the miracle was inside you all along.

 

 


The formula

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At minimum, all you need is something to base your latkes around, some glue to hold it all together, and a fat to fry it in. After that, the sky’s the limit.

 

Base

~1.5 lb vegetables

 

Egg

~1-3 eggs

 

Starch

~1/4 cup

 

Fat

As needed

 

Extras

Toppings

No offense to apple sauce and sour cream, but the latke topping deserves an upgrade. Here are some suggestions from Neumark—along with some recipes from across the web that made me look.

Get going! Don’t know where to start? Here are a few points of departure from @everylatke. Follow for more, randomly-generated recipes throughout the holiday.

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