Matzo Meal and Cottage Cheese Latkes

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    Twenty

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking

By Marlena Spieler

Published 2016

  • About

Cheese latkes were probably once the favourite a shkenazic delicacy, possibly because flour, buckwheat and matzo meal latkes were more common. The cottage cheese gives a tangy, slightly gooey consistency to the pancake.

Ingredients

  • 275 g/10 oz/ cups cottage cheese
  • 3

Method

  1. In a bowl, mash the cottage cheese. Mix in the egg yolks, half the salt, the matzo meal, onion, spring onion, sugar, yogurt or water, and pepper.

  2. Whisk the egg whites with the remaining salt until stiff. Fold one-third of the whisked