Crispy Potato Latkes

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

Side Dishes
Potatoes
Make Ahead
    

For truly crisp latkes, we had to eliminate the one thing potatoes are loaded with.

SERVES4 to 6 as a side dish

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted latkes that were light and not greasy, with buttery soft interiors surrounded by a shatteringly crisp outer shell. To achieve all of these goals, we needed to remove as much water as possible from the potato shreds by wringing the...

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