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Kimchi latkes with peanut sauce

Wow your taste buds with this explosion of flavours and colour

December 15, 2024 08:00
kimchi latkes
Photo: Vadaszdeli.co.uk
1 min read

Cook: 20 minutes

Serves: Makes 10 - 12

Bring new life to your latkes with kimchi and peanut butter — a tasty combination of sweet, savoury and sour


Method

  • Coarsely grate the potatoes. Place in a clean tea towel and wring out until all the liquid has been removed, or as much as possible. Place the grated potato and kimchi in a large bowl. Set aside.

  • In a separate bowl, mix the egg, flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and pepper. Mix with the potato/kimchi until combined. Do not overmix — you want a loose but sticky mixture.
    Heat a large heavy-bottomed pan over medium heat and add the oil to around 10mm.

  • When the oil is hot but not too hot (test it by putting a pinch of the batter into the pan — it should sizzle but not darken/burn — cook in batches, using a tablespoon to gently drop the batter into the pan. Carefully use a fork to flatten the latkes very slightly.

Ingredients

500g Maris Pipers or other starchy potatoes
1 small/medium egg
40g plain flour/matzah meal
150g Vadasz Raw Kimchi (drained/squeezed very well/until dry — brine reserved in a bowl)
1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
Rapeseed oil for frying
Salt and pepper
Handful of fresh coriander

For the sauce:
1 small jar/around 200g, good quality crunchy peanut butter
½ jar/200g Vadasz Raw Kimchi
2 tbsp maple syrup
4 tbsp coconut milk