for my chanukah meal...potatoes but NOT latkes?

[readytoslurp]

Love latkas..hate the standing around and cooking in oil. thats it period.

I want to give some semblance of tradition so I want to do a potato dish because at chanukah the potato is star.... Here is another point. At my chanukahs I usually like to feature the influence of other cuisines on the basic ingredients and this year its morrocco!! I know of Aziza in san francisco and love it and will look at what the chef does with potatoes.. BUT

if any of you chowhounders have an idea of a potato dish that is festive and great and would be a good substitute instead of the latkas... Layered oniony something? I do not want to do a gratin. Give me something else.. Maybe a kugel?

Thanks everyone... and have a lovely thanksgiving.. I am already on chanukah because that is when I really cook.....

[Wawsanham]

You can definitely sautee (I wouldn't say fry as that is too strong a word) the omlet/tortilla de papas in olive oil. In fact it needs to be done lightly in oil.

[goodhealthgourmet]

interesting tidbit about the history of traditional Chanukah foods:
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanuk...

potatoes + cheese...scalloped potatoes or a gratin? or a crisp, cheesy kugel?

[escondido123]

What about a puree of potatoes and garlic using olive oil? There is also one Marcella Hazan does a mashed potato with baked onion where you could swap out olive oil for the butter

[small h]

Actually, it's not the potato that's the point of latkes, it's the oil, burning miraculously for eight crazy nights. Can you do an oven-baked latke-type thing? (Not that the potato omelet doesn't sound very nice, also.)

http://bakingbites.com/2007/12/oven-b...

[readytoslurp]

well you know what I mean... thanks for the correction.. Its the oil for sure....

[Wawsanham]

Maybe a "tortilla de papa" a Spanish dish akin to a potato omlet (you can add some onion). It's not Moroccan, but not too far away geographically.

[readytoslurp]

absolutely love this idea!!!!