Sweet Potato Latkes + Kid Made Apple-Persimmon Sauce + Sour ...
Sweet Potato Latkes + Kid-Made ApplePersimmon Sauce + Sour Cream + ApplePersimmon Smoothies
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peel+grate+chop Peel 1 lb. sweet potatoes. Have your kids coarsely grate the sweet potatoes into a large bowl. Chop 2 green onions, including the green part and add to the sweet potatoes.
squeeze+mix Place the grated sweet potatoes and green onions in a clean dishtowel or paper towel and squeeze out ALL of the excess moisture over a bowl. Crack 2 eggs and mix together with 2 T flour and big pinches of salt and pepper. Then add to the grated sweet potato. Stir well to combine.
heat+flatten+fry Heat a griddle and coat with a good amount of vegetable oil (about 4 T for all of the latkes). Have your kids take about 1-2 T of the potato mixture in the palm of their hands and flatten into a patty as best they can. Make all of the pancake patties at once, setting on a baking sheet, and then wash hands immediately after forming the potato pancakes. Place a few of the pancakes on your heated griddle at a time, flattening slightly with a large spatula, and fry for a few minutes until golden and cooked through. Flip over and brown on the other side, then remove and place on a paper towel to drain excess oil and cool. Add more oil after each batch and serve warm with a big dollop of the apple-persimmon sauce and sour cream!
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kid-made apple persimmon sauce
wash+chop+grate Wash, but do not peel 2 persimmons and 5 apples. Have your kids roughly chop or grate all of the fruit and take out the cores. Grate ½ tsp fresh ginger root. Combine in a saucepan on your stovetop.
measure+simmer Have your kids measure 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, ½ tsp cloves (or sub 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice for all of these spices) and add with 1 T vanilla and a pinch of salt to the saucepan. Simmer together until softened.
cool+mash Once the fruit has softened, cool slightly and then have your kids mash with a potato masher or blend with an immersion blender. Enjoy with your latkes!
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chop+grate+core Have your kids roughly chop or grate and core 2 persimmons and 1 apple and add to your blender or a pitcher for use with an immersion blender.
add+blend Add 2 C milk, ½ C orange juice, ¼ tsp cinnamon, 1 T honey, and 2 C ice. Blend until smooth!
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Apple Persimmon Sauce
1 pound sweet potatoes 2 green onions 2 T flour 2 large eggs salt and pepper, to taste vegetable oil for frying sour cream for serving
2 persimmons 5 apples 1 tsp each: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice; ½ tsp cloves* *or sub 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice ½ tsp freshly grated ginger root 1 T vanilla pinch of salt
Apple Persimmon Smoothie 2 persimmons 1 apple 2 C milk ½ C orange juice ¼ tsp cinnamon 1 T honey, agave, maple syrup, or a big pinch of stevia 2 C ice
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fun food facts: The History of Latkes! It’s nearly Hanukkah time! Latkes, or potato pancakes, are commonly associated with the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe. However, potato pancakes are not necessarily Jewish in origin. Areas in Poland have some varieties of potato pancake. For example, a favorite Polish dish is called “placki wegierskie”, which are potato pancakes stuffed with a thick and spicy Hungarian goulash. Latkes are usually eaten during Hanukkah. The custom came from the fact that there was a preference for eating fried foods during Hanukkah, which celebrates a miracle of light involving oil in the lamps of ancient Israel. There are varieties of latkes such as cheese, apple, spinach, rice, and leek latkes. Potato is the most well known and well loved by all!
The surprise ingredient of the week is: Sweet Potato! ★
The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato. Plants in the sweet potato family include several garden flowers called morning glories.
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Sweet potato plants were grown in Peru as early as 750 BC and Native Americans were growing sweet potatoes far before Columbus arrived in 1492. George Washington grew sweet potatoes on his farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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African slaves in the South called the sweet potato “nyami” because it reminded them of the starchy, edible tuber of that name that grew in their homeland. The Senegalese word “nyami” was eventually shortened to the word “yam”. Today sweet potatoes are often confused with yams, but yams are large, starchy roots that are grown in Africa and Asia. Yams can grow up to 100 pounds (!) are are rarely available in American supermarkets.
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Sweet potatoes are packed with calcium, potassium, and vitamins A and C. They are much more nutritionally dense than white potatoes.
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Sweet potatoes contain an enzyme that converts most of its starches into sugars as the potato matures. This sweetness continues to increase during storage and when they are cooked.
Time for a laugh! Knock, Knock! Who’s there? Honey! Honey who? Honey-kay is almost here! What did the philosophical sweet potato say? I think, therefore I yam…
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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• sweet potato latkes
peel+grate+chop Peel 1 lb. sweet potatoes. Have your kids coarsely grate the sweet potatoes into a large bowl. Chop 2 green onions, including the green part and add to the sweet potatoes.
squeeze+mix Place the grated sweet potatoes and green onions in a clean dishtowel or paper towel and squeeze out ALL of the excess moisture over a bowl. Crack 2 eggs and mix together with 2 T flour and big pinches of salt and pepper. Then add to the grated sweet potato. Stir well to combine.
heat+flatten+fry Heat a griddle and coat with a good amount of vegetable oil (about 4 T for all of the latkes). Have your kids take about 1-2 T of the potato mixture in the palm of their hands and flatten into a patty as best they can. Make all of the pancake patties at once, setting on a baking sheet, and then wash hands immediately after forming the potato pancakes. Place a few of the pancakes on your heated griddle at a time, flattening slightly with a large spatula, and fry for a few minutes until golden and cooked through. Flip over and brown on the other side, then remove and place on a paper towel to drain excess oil and cool. Add more oil after each batch and serve warm with a big dollop of the apple-persimmon sauce and sour cream!
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kid-made apple persimmon sauce
wash+chop+grate Wash, but do not peel 2 persimmons and 5 apples. Have your kids roughly chop or grate all of the fruit and take out the cores. Grate ½ tsp fresh ginger root. Combine in a saucepan on your stovetop.
measure+simmer Have your kids measure 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, ½ tsp cloves (or sub 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice for all of these spices) and add with 1 T vanilla and a pinch of salt to the saucepan. Simmer together until softened.
cool+mash Once the fruit has softened, cool slightly and then have your kids mash with a potato masher or blend with an immersion blender. Enjoy with your latkes!
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• apple persimmon smoothie
chop+grate+core Have your kids roughly chop or grate and core 2 persimmons and 1 apple and add to your blender or a pitcher for use with an immersion blender.
add+blend Add 2 C milk, ½ C orange juice, ¼ tsp cinnamon, 1 T honey, and 2 C ice. Blend until smooth!
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shopping list Sweet Potato Latkes
Apple Persimmon Sauce
1 pound sweet potatoes 2 green onions 2 T flour 2 large eggs salt and pepper, to taste vegetable oil for frying sour cream for serving
2 persimmons 5 apples 1 tsp each: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice; ½ tsp cloves* *or sub 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice ½ tsp freshly grated ginger root 1 T vanilla pinch of salt
Apple Persimmon Smoothie 2 persimmons 1 apple 2 C milk ½ C orange juice ¼ tsp cinnamon 1 T honey, agave, maple syrup, or a big pinch of stevia 2 C ice
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cooking Sticky Fingers Cultivating ‘Cool’inary Curiosity in Kids
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THYME to TURNIP the BEET on WHAT KIDS EAT
www.stickyfingerscooking.com © 2016 Sticky Fingers Cooking
fun food facts: The History of Latkes! It’s nearly Hanukkah time! Latkes, or potato pancakes, are commonly associated with the Jewish culture of Eastern Europe. However, potato pancakes are not necessarily Jewish in origin. Areas in Poland have some varieties of potato pancake. For example, a favorite Polish dish is called “placki wegierskie”, which are potato pancakes stuffed with a thick and spicy Hungarian goulash. Latkes are usually eaten during Hanukkah. The custom came from the fact that there was a preference for eating fried foods during Hanukkah, which celebrates a miracle of light involving oil in the lamps of ancient Israel. There are varieties of latkes such as cheese, apple, spinach, rice, and leek latkes. Potato is the most well known and well loved by all!
The surprise ingredient of the week is: Sweet Potato! ★
The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato. Plants in the sweet potato family include several garden flowers called morning glories.
★
Sweet potato plants were grown in Peru as early as 750 BC and Native Americans were growing sweet potatoes far before Columbus arrived in 1492. George Washington grew sweet potatoes on his farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
★
African slaves in the South called the sweet potato “nyami” because it reminded them of the starchy, edible tuber of that name that grew in their homeland. The Senegalese word “nyami” was eventually shortened to the word “yam”. Today sweet potatoes are often confused with yams, but yams are large, starchy roots that are grown in Africa and Asia. Yams can grow up to 100 pounds (!) are are rarely available in American supermarkets.
★
Sweet potatoes are packed with calcium, potassium, and vitamins A and C. They are much more nutritionally dense than white potatoes.
★
Sweet potatoes contain an enzyme that converts most of its starches into sugars as the potato matures. This sweetness continues to increase during storage and when they are cooked.
Time for a laugh! Knock, Knock! Who’s there? Honey! Honey who? Honey-kay is almost here! What did the philosophical sweet potato say? I think, therefore I yam…
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