Navratri Potato Pancakes | Easy Vegan Latkes

Crispy and crunchy Navratri potato pancakes served with tamarind chutney. These pancakes are gluten-free and vegan. It can be served as an evening snack or can also be great for vrat/fasting.

This potato pancake recipe is inspired by Latkes. Latkes are shallow-fried pancakes. They are traditionally cooked on Hanukkah. It is made with grated potato, flour, eggs, onion and salt. With Navratri just around the corner, I thought of making a vrat recipe. So this is the vrat/fasting version of Latkes.

The recipe is quite simple. You will need a few potatoes, water chestnut flour/singhara atta, cumin seeds, black pepper, ginger, fresh coriander leaves, green chillies and rock salt. This is an instant pancake recipe. So just mix all the ingredients together and start frying them in a pan.

As this is a Navratri recipe, so I have used ghee/clarified butter for frying the pancakes. But for the vegans, just replace ghee with coconut oil.

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Prep Time: 15 min | Cook Time: 20 min | Total Time: 35 min

Serves: 4 people

Ingredients:

• 2 large potatoes, grated
• 1 tbsp singhara atta or water chestnut flour
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 tsp black pepper, crushed
• 1 tsp ginger, grated
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
• 1 tsp green chillies, chopped
• Rock salt, to taste
• Ghee (see recipe note), for frying
• Coriander leaves, garnishing
• Lemon, for garnishing

Cooking Directions:

In a large bowl, add grated potato, coriander leaves, ginger, green chillies, singhara atta, cumin seeds, crushed black pepper and rock salt. Mix well.

Heat 3-4 tbsp ghee in a non-stick pan over medium heat. Carefully drop a spoonful of potato mixture on the pan and spread it out using a spoon.

Reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook till the pancakes are crisp and golden brown. Each side takes around 4-5 minutes to cook.

Transfer to an absorbent paper and repeat the same process with the remaining mixture.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and lemon. Serve Navratri potato pancakes with tamarind chutney.

Recipe Notes:

• If you are vegan, then instead of ghee you can use coconut oil in the recipe.
• And if you do not consume a particular ingredient during Navratri, feel free to leave that out.

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Navratri Potato Pancakes | Easy Vegan Latkes

Sneha Paul

Crispy and crunchy potato pancakes served with tamarind chutney. These pancakes are gluten-free and vegan.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

• 2 large potatoes grated
• 1 tbsp singhara atta or water chestnut flour
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 tsp black pepper crushed
• 1 tsp ginger grated
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
• 1 tsp green chillies chopped
• Rock salt to taste
• Ghee see recipe note, for frying
• Coriander leaves garnishing
• Lemon for garnishing

Instructions

 

• In a large bowl, add grated potato, coriander leaves, ginger, green chillies, singhara atta, cumin seeds, crushed black pepper and rock salt. Mix well.
• Heat 3-4 tbsp ghee in a non-stick pan over medium heat. Carefully drop a spoonful of potato mixture on the pan and spread it out using a spoon.
• Reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook till the pancakes are crisp and golden brown. Each side takes around 4-5 minutes to cook.
• Transfer to an absorbent paper and repeat the same process with the remaining mixture.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and lemon. Serve Navratri potato pancakes with tamarind chutney.

Notes

• If you are vegan, then instead of ghee you can use coconut oil in the recipe.
• And if you do not consume a particular ingredient during Navratri, feel free to leave that out.

Keyword fasting recipes, navratri recipes, pancake recipe, vrat ka khana

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