Raw Food Dehydrated Potato Pancakes
What do you do when you are on a raw food diet and winter is setting in? You expand your repertoire of raw food recipes to include heartier, warm raw food! I left the sunshine and 80 degree temperatures in Boulder and arrived to to rain and low 40’s in Minneapolis. It is cold and wet. I knew the last thing I wanted for dinner was all cold food. Time to get creative.
Spotting a beautiful, organic, home grown potato sitting on the counter, I got to work. Previously, I have never used white potatoes in my recipes. Actually, you don’t want to eat potatoes completely raw. Using the dehydrator solved that problem. When I started this dish, I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. I threw some ingredients together and placed it in the dehydrator. 3 hours later, I was delighted with the results. Warm out of the dehydrator, served with raw apple sauce, this makes a satisfying meal on a cold, wet night.
"Raw" Potato Pancakes with Apple Sauce
- 1/3 cup pine nuts (ground fine)
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 large potato (I used a red potato)
- water
- 1 tablespoon celtic sea or himalayan salt
- 1/2 purple onion (or other mild onion)
- 2 tablespoons dried rosemary
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Put pine nuts in food processor and pulse until fine. Set aside.
- With food processor running, drop in clove of garlic.
- Switch blades and grate potato.
- Put potato and garlic in a bowl filled with water and 1 tablespoon salt, let soak for 10 minutes, drain.
- Meanwhile, chop the onion.
- Combine drained potato and garlic mixture, onion, pine nuts, rosemary and olive oil.
- Place on dehydrator screens in pancake shapes, about 4″ across. Dehydrate at 145 for 45 minutes, then reduce heat and finish dehydrating at 116 for 2 more hours. You want them to be fully dry.
- Remove with spatula and serve with raw apple sauce.
Leslie @LaMamaNaturale wrote on October 22, 2009
Mmm…. Sounds wonderful- was just wondering about raw potatoes! Thanks for sharing. 😉
Gena (Choosing Raw) wrote on October 22, 2009
Gaaahhh! These look incredible. Tweeting them now!
Julie wrote on October 22, 2009
It is pretty cold up north where I am too, so I’m looking for warming but still raw vegan recipes. Never had raw potatoes before… perfect time to try it 🙂 I have the feeling that this is a kid friendly recipe too, perfect! Thanks you 🙂
Blaine wrote on October 21, 2009
Hey Amy –
Just FYI, I don’t have a dehydrator either but I’ve had great results dehydrating many things with my oven set at the very lowest temperature and cracking the oven door open with something like a ball of foil or a rolled up dish towel. It takes less time to dehydrate, so you’ll have to adjust – but it’s a great way to get around recipes that call for a dehydrator!
Susan wrote on October 21, 2009
The big problem is that you can’t control the heat. The whole idea with the dehydrator is that you keep the temp of the food under 116 degrees to maintain the enzymes and also the vitamins and nutrients. Using the oven can work but if it is getting done much faster, it probably is working at a much higher temp. But if you don’t have an option, you can use it.
karmalily wrote on October 21, 2009
@Amy – I read somewhere that if you don’t own a dehydrator you could use your oven at the lowest temp. Although it would use quite a bit of energy.
pure2raw twins wrote on October 21, 2009
I love it when I just throw things together and they turn out!!! Sometimes those make the best recipes!! Though sometimes they not turn out… oh the joys of playing in the kitchen. 🙂
Amy Oscar wrote on October 21, 2009
Looks amazing. Is there a way to make this w/out a dehydrator? Like, could I put it in oven at very low temp for a while? Or… could I “gently” cook it and still get food value?