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Apple and Cinnamon Oatmeal Pancakes
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Turkey Burgers with Mushroom Gravy
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Swedish Pancakes with Berry-Cardamom Topping
A winner in the Bon Appétit Recipes Sweepstakes, a reader poll conducted in honor of our 50th anniversary.
Canadian Bacon Fried Eggs with Blue Cheese
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Potato Cakes with Leek and Carrot
Serve these with a salad and some sausage for a hearty main course.
Potato Blintzes
Only 1 tablespoon of oil in the filling makes these a low-fat entrée, and using ready-made wrappers instead of crepes makes it an easy one. These freeze nicely.
Chiles Rellenos
(Stuffed Chilies)
Curried Sweet Potato Latkes
The New Prospect Café, a health-oriented restaurant and catering company in Park Slope, Brooklyn, includes these curried sweet potato fritters on their Hanukkah menu. Add some fresh grated ginger to the pancakes for an Asian touch. Sweet potatoes need the flour to give the pancakes body.
Grilled Cheese with Smoked Turkey and Avocado
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Paad Thai Pailin
(Stir-Fried Rice Noodles)
Cinnamon-Spiced Swiss Chard Pancakes
These get a lift from allspice, too.
Sizzling Catfish with Black Bean-Soy Sauce
Bente Birkedal-Hansen of Bethesda, Maryland, says that Azalea Restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, does a great job with catfish, serving the whole fish with an Asian-style black bean sauce. It would make an impressive main course at a dinner party.
If whole catfish are difficult to get at your local supermarket, order them from the fishmonger and have the fish cleaned.
Spicy Fried Chicken
A spicier version of that old Southern favorite. From Mother Africa's Table, National Council of Negro Women, Washington, D.C.
Garbanzo Bean and Potato Fritters with Red Bell Pepper Harissa
There is a historical reason why most Hanukkah menus offer foods that have been fried in oil. In the second century B.C., a one-day supply of oil inexplicably burned for eight days and eight nights after Judah Maccabee and his followers recaptured Jerusalem's Holy Temple from their Syrian oppressors. Hanukkah is the celebration of that miracle, and fried foods are served to commemorate the oil. In this country, the Eastern European potato latke is usually featured. These fritters are a Sephardic contribution to that tradition.