Potato Fritter Recipe for German Reibekuchen

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Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Potatoes 500 g; Salt 1/4 tsp; black pepper 4-6 pinches; Cayenne pepper 4 pinches; nutmeg 4 pinches; Sunflower oil 20 ml; oat flakes 100 g; onions 1-2 pc; eggs 2 pc; thyme 4-6 twigs; butter 20 g; apple compote 250 g; cinnamon; powdered sugar; mint 4 twigs

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I’ll show you my Potato Fritter Recipe for German Reibekuchen today.

Many of us know potato fritter as a side dish or as a fasting dish with apple compote.

The potato pancakes have a lot of names in Germany:

Erdäpfelpuffer, Reiberdatschi, Reibeplätzchen, Kartoffelpfannkuchen und Kartoffelplätzchen are common.

I only found Potato pancakes and Crispy potato grater cakes as names in english. Its funny for me, “cake” in Germany is always sweet…

Please write me about the comment function if you know a better designation.

You will find the most important questions answered below, plus many ideas for your own variations and step-by-step photos.

You can send me your cooking question via the comment function. Have fun reading and good luck!

Table of Contents

1. Recipe Potato Fritter
2. Nutritional Values
3. What Kind of Potatoes do you use for Potato Fritters?
4. Potato Fritter as Side Dish
5. Crispy Potato Fritter with Oat Flakes
6. Other suitable Recipes

1. Recipe Potato Fritter

Now we’re going into the kitchen… following many photos… Good success!

You can keep the fried Reiberdatschi warm in the oven at 140-160°C or prepare and make warm when the guests are there…. below are many photos… Good luck!

Potato Fritters

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 559

Preparation Time 5 Min.

Cook Time 30 Min.

Total Time 35 Min.

Simple tutorial on how to prepare potato fritters.

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Ingredients

Potato Fritter Ingredients
500	g	Potatoes (Predominantly waxy potatoes)
1/4	tsp	Salt (I use Ursalz or Himalaya salt)
4-6	pinches	black pepper
4	pinches	Cayenne pepper
4	pinches	nutmeg
20	ml	Sunflower oil (You can also use rapeseed oil!)
Optional Potato Pancake Ingredients
100	g	oat flakes (You can also use chickpea flour!)
1-2	pc	onions
2	pc	eggs
Ingredients Potato Fritter as Side Dish
4-6	twigs	thyme (Deco! I like to use thyme, rosemary, parsley as well.)
20	g	butter (I’ll wobble the buffers before serving in Ghee.)
Ingredients Potato Pancake with Sugar, Cinnamon and Apple Compote
250	g	apple compote
		cinnamon
		powdered sugar
4	twigs	mint

Instruction

Preparation step 1

Fresh potatoes — Use a predominantly waxy variety of potato for potato pancakes.

Prepare potato

Wash the potatoes in their skins, peel them and make them ready to grate.

If you want to peel the potatoes for a long time before preparing them, put them in cold water to prevent them from turning brown.

Preparation step 2

Grate potatoes

Process the potatoes with the coarse grater to even fibres.

Now you could add the Otional Ingredients:

Finely grate onion, add eggs, oat flakes or chickpea flour.

Preparation step 3

Seasoning

Season the prepared mixture with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and nutmeg.

Preparation step 4

Finish the potato mixture

Mix the potato mixture.

Preheat the oven to 180°C at the hot-air stage and heat a coated pan on the stove.

Add a little oil to the pan.

Preparation step 5

Fry the potato pancake mixture in the pan — Fry potato pancakes in a pan

Fry potato pancakes

Place the potato mixture in the pan with your hands and bring into shape.

Preparation step 6

Shape potato pancakes with a ring. — Bring potato pancakes into shape.

Molds Tip

You can use a dressing ring for a more beautiful shape of the potato pancakes.

Preparation step 7

Potato pancakes in the pan — You can easily prepare potato pancakes with just potatoes. You need a coated pan. I will show you how to shape the potato pancakes below in the recipe.

Finish

After a few minutes, turn the buffers over and fry them crispy on both sides.

Preparation step 8

Potato pancakes, rice pudding on the baking sheet. — Grated cake on the baking sheet.

Finish cooking

Then place the potato pancakes on a baking tray with baking paper and cook in the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Preparation step 9

Potato pancakes recipe picture — Potato pancakes and potato pancakes, here served with applesauce.

Serve

Serve potato pancakes as a side dish or with sugar and cinnamon and apple compote or apple sauce.

2. Nutritional Values

3. What Kind of Potatoes do you use for Potato Fritters?

For potato pancakes you use a mainly waxy potato variety.

Known predominantly waxy varieties are:

Finka
Marabel
Queen Anne
Laura

I have already tried out the buffers with various varieties.

With a little skill, the buffers will work with any type of potato.

Crispier and crispier and therefore better with the variety mentioned above.

4. Potato Fritter as Side Dish

The insert buffer comes to my table in its simplest version.

You don’t need any flour, egg or oatmeal.

Simply grate the potatoes, season and fry immediately in the coated pan.

The simple buffer tastes wonderful with fish and meat. It is also a wonderful variation for classic potato pancakes with apple compote, without onion flavour!