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Everyone loves a big holiday meal. And most people love the leftovers. But it always seems that the one food item that lasts the longest is those mashed potatoes. They seem to linger around even as all the other food is disappearing. A lot of times they just do not get eaten and have to be thrown away. Maybe what you need is a good potato pancake recipe.

People may love them the next day, but after that, they may start wishing for something else, especially once the gravy is gone! A great way to use up those extra potatoes is to turn them into something entirely new-pancakes. You may find your family wishing there were leftovers of these.

To start the ball rolling, be sure you have on hand all of the necessary ingredients. You will need vegetable oil (canola, corn or a blend works just fine), salt and pepper to taste, flour, an egg, milk, onion, and of course, those mashed potatoes. For a different taste, you can substitute bacon drippings for the vegetable oil.

For four pancakes you need 2 cups of potatoes. Mix them with the egg, 1/2 cup of flour, 1/4 of milk, and 3 tablespoons of diced onion. More or less onion can be used depending on how much your family likes onion taste. After all the ingredients are well mixed, form into 4 equally sized patties. It may be easiest to form them on wax paper or tin foil as they are usually sticky.

Liberally coat a skillet or electric frying pan with your choice of oil or the bacon drippings. Let the pan get hot but not smoking, and then fry the patties for 3 minutes on each side. Press down on the pancakes with your spatula a few times during cooking. To prevent the spatula from sticking to the pancakes, spray it with a cooking spray. Pancakes are done when they are golden brown and hot in the center and the onions are tender.

Try getting creative if you like, by adding to the mixture bacon pieces, shredded cheese or anything else you think your family will like. Sprinkle them with a little salt and pepper to taste and serve. You can also top them off with additional things like sour cream, butter, gravy, melted cheese, hot sauce or ketchup. These side dishes are good compliments to chicken, pork beef or fish. Or they also make tasty appetizers.

This is the traditional American style potato pancake recipe. To spice things up, you can also try the German style potato hotcakes which use grated potatoes instead of mashed. These are crispier and more similar to hash browns.

Find lots and lots of recipes like this potato pancake recipe on Andrews pancake website. If you like you pancakes made with vegetables and salty you can also try ham&cheese pancake recipe. It’s delicious and none of the recipes are hard to make!

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Regular pancakes are usually made from white flour and are considered not having as many nutrients as those made with other grains. They are carbohydrate loaded so in some cases they can cause your blood sugar to rise rather high. Flour pancakes have no source of fiber but if you use other grains you will be able to provide your body with less carbohydrates and a great deal of fiber. You can use oatmeal as one of those alternative grains to make an Oatmeal Pancake Recipe.

The original oatmeal pancake comes from a country you would not expect it to come from. They come from Sweden and are usually served with fruit and jelly instead of syrup. Oatmeal pancakes can be served with regular syrup too and they taste very good, but you can also put applesauce on them if you do not want to use syrup.

In this recipe use regular oatmeal instead of the microwave type. Also avoid the Quick Oats in the following recipe. The only oatmeal you should use is slow cooked oatmeal and you can use organic oatmeal if you wish.

Start out this easy oatmeal pancake recipe by pour two cups of milk into a large bowl and adding one and one half of a cup of rolled oats. Set the bowl aside and let them soak for around 10 minutes. Take another large bowl and blend one half of a cup of white flour, one half of a cup of wheat flour, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, one tablespoon of baking powder, on fourth of a teaspoon of table salt, and finally one half of a teaspoon of cinnamon. Take a whisk and mix this up in the bowl being careful not to spill over the sides of the bowl.

In a small bowl you want to whisk 2 eggs until they are beaten and throw them in with the milk and oatmeal mixture that has been set aside. Also add to this mixture one fourth of a cup of melted butter. Add one teaspoon vanilla as the last ingredient. Mix that all together and add the flour mixture gradually so that everything is all incorporated and it looks like pancake batter.

Place a skillet on the stove and get it hot or use an electric griddle making sure it is hot. Add just a little bit of vegetable oil or butter and scoop out about 1 fourth cup of the batter placing it on the hot surface. Bubbles will start to form around the edge of the pancake and once there is a steady circle of bubbles you can flip your pancake over. The one side should be brown and once the other side gets that way and the inside looks nice and fluffy you can remove the pancake to a plate. You can put a pat of butter on top and syrup or just put the jam, fresh fruit, or some applesauce on top.

You can make your own orange syrup to use with your oatmeal pancake recipe that is absolutely luscious. This is a splurge type thing because there are a lot of calories in this syrup but every once in awhile is a special treat. Take a medium saucepan and put 1 half cup sugar in it. Add 1 fourth of a cup of orange juice, 1 fourth cup of butter, and 1 fourth of a cup of light corn syrup. Start whisking and heating the syrup and once it starts to boil it is done. Set is aside for about 5 minutes and then pour over your pancakes. Your family will gobble these down in just seconds.

Ben is a pancake nut and this oatmeal pancake recipe is just one of the recipes that you can find on his website. If you like eating healthy you can also try this whole wheat pancake recipe, then again – there are plenty of other recipes to choose from!

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