Lotza Vegan Latkes

We celebrated Chanukah in my classroom last week. That meant the motherload of potato latkes, fried to perfection right there next to the math bulletin board. Though the wonderful morning already seems like months ago, the classroom still smells of bubbling oil.

My kids’ parents are awesome at making sure I get to eat and be merry despite my vegan restrictions. So a tub of Tofutti sour cream was brought and I brought my Ener-g egg replacer. The kids made the latkes from scratch: peeling potatoes, chopping onion and shredding the potato in a food processor before squeezing out a ton of water. In the interest of time, all the latkes were vegan. Making the equivalent of 10 eggs with the egg replacer, the potato, flour and onion binded (bound?) perfectly for a bath in the hot golden bubbly. So the entire class and parents [and teachers and administrators drawn into the room by their noses] all ate vegan latkes. Everyone loved them and no one knew the difference.

Squeezing out the shredded potatoes– what fun!

The frying station/math wall.

A parent does the frying.

This made about 65 latkes.

With a pinch of fresh parsley, deeeelicious!  What a fabulous morning. Check out a full report on the class blog here!

Happy Chanukah!