Homemade Potato Pancakes! A family Favorite

Any Day is a great day for Potato Pancakes.

Being raised in a family who were Slovak potato pancakes were an easy meal to make.  Mom learned how to make them from her mother and her mother from her mother.  Simple as that.

I used to grate the potatoes and didn't like doing it at all but the end result was a few knuckle scrapes but wonderful fluffy and delicious fried pancakes.

Here's my version(I used my blender) for convenience but go ahead and grate if you want to feel more authentic.

5 or 6 peeled and cubes potatoes.  I use white potatoes

1 tsp.+ salt

1 medium onion cut in cubes

1 tablespoon of flour

1 egg(optional) 

Note: sometimes I add an egg and somedays I don't.  They taste fine both ways and fries well too either way.

vegetable or canola oil  

Place cubed half of cubes potatoes and half of onion in blender.  Pulse on grate until you see the potatoes start to chop up.  Add more potatoes and onion as well as flour and continue to pulse on grate leaving it on grate and giving the blender a little shake to get the potatoes to move.  Remove top of blender and stir mixture until mixture is smooth.

In a large frying pan place sever tablespoons of vegetable oil on medium heat..  When you see oil start to separate it should be hot enough to place scoops of potato mixture into the pan. Allow edges of pancake to start to brown then flip gently over.  Cook slowly until browned on both sides.

Enjoy!  

Serve with sour cream or applesauce or both.  Yummy!