Katie Mae
Chef Katie Mae is the founder of The Culinary Gym, an online hub for learning, practicing, and mastering whole-food, plant-based cuisine. Since 2011, she has been teaching at TrueNorth Health Center and Dr. McDougall’s residential health programs. Witnessing patients radically transform their health inspired her to create an in-depth culinary curriculum to help people embrace a whole-food, plant-based diet at home. With a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University and a personal passion for flavor science, Mae teaches how to prepare food that’s both health-promoting and mouthwatering. Find her on Instagram and Facebook.
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I don’t have oatmeal or oat flour. What other flours will work best?
Hi Sara,
You could use whole wheat flour here or any other neutral-tasting flour that you like, the flour is just used as a binding agent for the pancakes. Let us know how it turns out!
Looks like a good recipe but can I use Whole Wheat flour instead of Oat flour. Elizabeth Ketchum
I wish my mother was still alive, she was always looking for great potato pancake recipes. She would have loved this and I might finally understand what she was after.
Hard to rate with no time to test it, but sounds wonderful and going to make it
Siri knows the conversions …..
Why would you rate something that you have NOT made or tasted??? I will never understand why people do this. Makes zero sense.
Is it possible not to use Farenheit for temperature or cup metrics ? Nobody outside US understands them. Grams and Celsius please!
Woohoo! My first recipe that the hub’s REALLY liked. It was a definitely a hit. I agree with some of the previous comments about using cups of each of potatoes and zucchini. I actually used the shredded potatoes in a bag you find by the eggs and just used the same amount as the zucchini after I squeezed it. Came out great.
Love the ease of the ingredients and simple technique. I made a few tweaks (leftover mashed potatoes, diced jalapeno, Spike, nutritional yeast, cayenne and dill) and served with sauerkraut and a honey-mustard dressing. Wow 🙂
What is Spike?
How big are the 2 Russett Potatoes? How big is the “Large Zucchini”? A recipe like this is very frustrating. A “Large potato in your part of the world might be quite different from my part of the world. Ditto for the zucchini. The best recipes use weight or (second best) volume. How about 600 grams grated potatoes or 150 grams grated zucchini? Recipes like this are promising but frustrating.
Can you freeze these? After cooking, I guess. I’m thinking between layers of wax paper or parchment paper.
This recipe makes entirely too much for 2 people.
Maybe I will just half the recipe….
The first time I made these, they were a bit bland. The second time I added in Bragg’s spices, nutritional yeast and a bit of cayenne pepper. I also cooked them in the copper basket that Forks Over Knives recommended for air baking in the oven. I didn’t have to flip them because of the basket.
How would you make these in an air fryer?
For variety you can replace the zucchini with grate carrots. These can also be cooked in sandwich maker or waffle iron.
I find it helpful for a zucchini recipe to either list the number of cups or the number of ounces of grated zucchini after squeezing out all of the water. The same goes for the amount of potatoes and onion. I make “regular” potato pancakes using this oven method and they have been great. I can’t wait to try this one. My Polish grandmother served potato pancakes drenched in maple syrup and, then, sprinkled with white sugar! These days, I prefer to serve them with apple sauce!
Made them tonight and my zucchini probably wasn’t as big as I should have had and I cooked 15 minutes each side by mistake but I still enjoyed them with some unsweetened apple sauce. My spouse is 100% Polish so I have had plenty of potato pancakes in the last 30 years. These are not upsetting my stomach from the oil and there is no oil smell in the house which makes me happy. This is a winner here. Will definitely be making them again and again
Oh this sounds so good, I’ll come back once I’ve tried, an update taste.
My husband is a polish immigrant and grew up eating potato pancakes. He really liked these as is the first time I made them. The second time I made them I told him they are oil free and then he didn’t like them all of a sudden. So now I fry them in a little oil to make him happy.
Love you guys
Spice it up a bit if you say it’s “grossest”. Be creative and nice.
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As someone who is highly tolerable of bland food and just eating to survive on a plant based diet, this is the grossest thing I have ever had in my life
You should use different spices and experiment with stuff or you’ll never enjoy your food. Why eat bland food? Live a little or take a forks over knives cooking class.
What a rude expression of your very subjective take on plant-based foods. Show a little gratitude.
the reason you’re tolerable of bland food and eating to survive is because you can’t tell when you need to add some spices for personal flavor.
Great, glad you found out not to eat it again then, cheers!
Try adding a little onion granules, garlic powder, nutritional yeast for a greater depth of flavour. Maybe you didn’t add enough seasoning… they would taste bland without the right level of seasoning. Try to be a little less rude next time perhaps?
If you’re “just eating to survive” then what is good food? Deep lard fat frozen french fries? Reset your taste buds and eat for delight.
I doubt that.
As an Irishman I feel attacked. Lol
Sounds like someone who may still get upset at having to eat a no-fat, whole food diet. It takes time for your taste buds to recalibrate.
I get it, it’s not easy.
Or it just tasted bad to them. Taste is subjective.
I’m quite new to this type of eating. This looks like it would be reasonably good, what exactly was so gross about it
you had me at oat flour