FRUITS AND VEGGIES MONDAY/Vegetable soup and potato pancakes 🥕🥔🥕

Hello everyone!

Today, my mom and my husband have decided that they want a vegetable soup and their beloved potato pancakes and I was overruled one-sided. I actually wanted to cook plum dumplings because I tend to prefer sweeter foods, but of course I also like vegetable soup and potato pancakes.

Potato pancakes are a traditional dish of Austrian, German and Bohemian cuisine. They consist mainly of potatoes that have been peeled and grated to a fibrous porridge, which - depending on the recipe - with other ingredients (oatmeal, onions, curd cheese, buttermilk, baking powder, garlic, salt, ground pepper, nutmeg, marjoram etc. ) and portionwise in hot fat to small pancakes baked.

I would also like to thank @lenasveganliving for this great contest!

For the vegetable soup, I cut the carrots, potato, celeriac, parsley root, leek and parsley into small pieces and sautéed in a little oil for two minutes, then tossed with broth and cooked until the vegetables were soft. In the end I spiced with pepper and mayoran.

For the potato pancakes you need the following ingredients for about 10 pieces:

• 2 kilograms of potatoes
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 5 toes of garlic, more or less to taste
• 1-2 tablespoons of flour, which you want
• rapeseed oil

Preparation:

Peel, wash and finely grate the potatoes, that can be a hand grater or an electric grater.

salt the grated potatoes and let them rest for 15 minutes. Then firmly squeeze the potatoes with your hands and place in a bowl. Add salt, pepper, squeezed garlic and the flour and stir.

Heat one tablespoon of oil in a nonstick pan (diameter approx. 24 cm), put a big spoon full of the potatoes in the hot oil and squeeze them flat with the back of the spoon so they are spread all over the pan.

Fry the potato pancakes golden brown and crispy on both sides.

The potato pancakes also taste good with freshly made chive sauce and a mixed salad.

I like to eat it right with the soup 🥔