What Are You Cooking for Hanukkah?

Hanukkah began at sundown Sunday evening, and the Festival of Lights will run all week. We like to think of Hanukkah as the Holiday of Fried Food; fried treats are very traditional, and it's a great excuse to eat some doughnuts! What are you cooking for Hanukkah this year? Here are a few recipes that made us look twice.

Here a few recent and traditional Hanukkah recipes we'd like to try:

• Fritelle di Hanukkah (Hanukkah Fritters)
• How to: Potato Latkes
• Cauliflower Latkes
• Chocolate Hanukkah Doughnuts With Chocolate Filling

Also see our post from last year: Top Five Hanukkah Treats

(Image: Flickr member santheo licensed for use under Creative Commons)

Comments (4)

Actually, our favorite chanukah dish to make is applesauce! We cook it with the skins on, and it turns a wonderful red color.

posted by ScorpioJ on December 23rd 2008 at 7:26pm
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I just made a huge plate of latkes on the first night, and that's what we had for dinner. It was awesome.

posted by seidhr on December 23rd 2008 at 10:11pm
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I made yam latkes with onion, cumin and a bit of cayenne. They brown and caramelize with just the right amount of sweetness.

posted by annerosenbaum on December 25th 2008 at 3:31am
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I made latkes with yukon gold potatoes, yams, and onions. ( salt, whole wheat flour, and eggs).

the trick with the oil is to use 3/4 canola for the higher smoke point, plus some olive oil for flavor (the other 1/4).

they came out *really* well; served with applesauce, and choice of sour cream (sour cilantro cream for me and other non-dairy folks, or cow's milk sour cream)

(sour cilantro cream is AMAZING. from moskowitz and romero's new cook book, veganomicon)

posted by jillrenee from boston on December 26th 2008 at 10:44am
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