Spicy Sweet Potato Pancakes With Holiday Guacamole Recipes

GARLICKY HOLY GUACAMOLE!

Steps:

• Cut avocados in half around the pit. Separate the halves. Pop out pit with spoon, then scoop flesh of avocados into a bowl. Squeeze the juice of a lemon over the avocados. Squeeze the juice with the lemon halves facing cut-side up, allowing the juice to spill down over the sides of the lemon into the bowl. This method keeps the seeds in the lemon and out of the guacamole. Add garlic, jalapeno, tomato, onion and salt to the bowl. Mash and mix the ingredients into a chunky dip using a fork. Serve with blue corn tortilla chips.

SPICY SWEET POTATO PANCAKES

Steps:

• Combine the potatoes and eggs in a med size mixing bowl.
• Put the grated onion into a clean kitchen towel and wring the liquid out of it and add it to the potatoes.
• Add the flour, nutmeg, curry powder,black pepper, salt and cayenne; stir well.
• Cover with plastic wrap and chill for one hour.
• Heat 2 tbsp of butter and 1 tbsp shortening in medium sized skillet on medium heat.
• Form the potato mix into patties and add them to the hot skillet three at a time.
• Spread them out to form pancakes 1/4 inch thick and 3 inches in diameter.
• Brown on one side, turn and cook till golden.
• Place cooked pancakes on a paper lined baking sheet and keep warm in the oven.
• Repeat till till all potato mixture is used adding more butter and shortening to pan as needed.
• Serve with chilled applesauce if using.