Air Fried Baked Potato Pancake

4.22 from 84 votes

This delicious and easy recipe Air Fried Baked Potato Pancakes makes the perfect Latka as well.Gluten free option is given.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Refrigerate15

Total Time35

Course: Appetizer, side

Cuisine: American, Jewish

Search Result: airfyry, Hannukah, Latka, pancakes, Potatoes

Servings:

Equipment

air fryer

Ingredients

3 Potatoes - Grated and drained. Optionally, you can use three cups of mashed potatoes.
1 Onion - Chopped
3 tsp Garlic - Minced
⅓ cup Flour - See post for alternatives
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 Eggs - Whisked
1 tsp Salt - Can omit or as needed with or without pepper

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, mix together your ingredients. Then place the bowl in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes. This will help make the mixture easier to work with when forming your pancakes.
Preheat your air fryer to 390 and lightly spray the basket with nonstick . Remove the bowl of with the pancake batter in it from the refrigerator. Use a large spoon or scoop to scoop out a chunk of the mixture then form it into ball. Flatten the ball to ½-3/4″ thickness and place it into the basket. Do not overlap your pancakes, you will most likely be making more than one batch.
Tip: Spray your pancakes with olive oil before baking them for both taste and moisture. Bake your potato pancakes for five minutes, flip them over and respray with olive oil if needed. Continue to cook for another five minutes or until they are done. Mashed potatoes may not need as long as the grated ones to air fry.

Recipe Notes

As mentioned, anyone wanting to not add eggs as a binder an use about any vegan flour instead of the egg. Also, To make this gluten free and vegan, you can use gluten free flour instead of the egg.

Draining your potatoes after they are shredded is a good way to keep the moisture down, especially when you are going to air fry your potatoes.

I like to place a paper towel or two on the bottom of a bowl and then set the grated potatoes on top to drain. Cheesecloth or even a large coffee filter should work too.

Here are some more air frying your potato pancake tips.

Substitute mashed potatoes for your grated potatoes. This is especially nice to do when you have leftover mashed potatoes from another meal.
Use a food processor to grate your potatoes if using a grater is not your thing.
Make these low carb latkas by using cauliflower rice instead of potatoes!

*Please check the nutritional labels to assure that you are sticking to your diet restrictions for any substitutions used.

- see post for alternatives
Please see recipe post for further details on this recipe.
Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that are used.

most recently updated:

December 9, 2019

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Nutrition

Please note: Nutritional data has been calculated using a tool that comes with this recipe card and not by me. This means that Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that you use. The accuracy of this tool may differ from other tools as expected. Also note that there is no instructional value to the video that may be attached to this recipe. It is only there for visual pleasure. For more information about the images in this recipe, please refer the the recipe instructions. Thank you!

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