Potato & Chicken Latke (Pancake)

Grated potatoes and onions, chicken, and 

vegetables of your choice are bound

with flour, salt and eggs, then pan fried to

make this delicious potato pancakes that is crispy on the outside and nutritous on the inside.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4 to 5 Little People)

250g Chicken Breast Mince or Left Over Chicken

250ml Chicken or Vegetable Stock

1 Large Potato, peeled and grated

1/2 Onion, peeled and grated

2 to 3 Tbsps Favorite vegetables, grated (carrots, zucchini, capsicum, peas, etc)

1 Egg, lightly beaten

1 Tbsp Plain Flour

Salt & Pepper

Oil Spray

METHOD

Place the stock and chicken in a large saucepan. Place over a high heat, bring to the boil.

Turn off the heat and pull the pan completely off the heat, cover with a tight-fitting lid, and let it rest there, off the heat, for 5 to 10 minutes.

Millie & Poppy Mixing

Squeeze the liquid out of the grated potato and onion.

Place in a mixing bowl and combine with vegetables, egg, flour, salt and pepper. Mix until well combined.

Add the cooked chicken to the vegetable mixture.

Spray the oil into a 20cm fry pan, and place over a medium heat.

Take the mixture and spread it over the base of the fry pan. Use a spoon and press down firmly on to the vegetable mixture. Fry for 5 minutes.

Turn the pancake onto a dinner plate.

To do this: Invert a large round heat-proof dinner plate over the fry pan. Then with one hand on the base of the plate, the other hand holding the fry pan handle, flip the plate and fry pan together so the plate is the right side up, and the fry pan is inverted. The pancake should now be sitting cooked side up on the dinner plate. 

Now slide the pancake back into the fry pan to cook the pancake on the other side. Fry for a further 5 to 7 minutes.

Turn the pancake onto the dinner plate again. Cut into wedges and serve with sauce of your little person's choice.

NOTE:

Latkes are potato pancakes that are perhaps best known as traditional Hanukkah food (Jewish Holiday). Made with potatoes and onion, these crispy treats symbolize the miracle of Hanukkah because they are fried in oil.