Hanukkah Un-fried

Greasy latkes and jelly-filled doughnuts top the list of traditional foods eaten during the festival of lights. But after you’ve eaten these fried goodies for eight straight days, it starts to take a toll on your waistline. Instead, you can enjoy these traditional Hanukkah foods without all that oil-frying.

Latkes

Also known as potato pancakes, these babies can be baked instead of fried. They can also be pan-fried in a few tablespoons of oil to give them crispiness, and then finished in the oven. Or, shake things up by using sweet potatoes or a combo of shredded parsnips, carrots or zucchini and potatoes. Here are two latke recipes to try, plus a few homemade applesauce recipes for dunking:

Oven-Fried Latkes (pictured above)

Crispy Zucchini and Potato Pancakes

Homemade Applesauce

 

Doughnuts

These sweet pieces of goodness that are usually fried can also be baked, and still taste just as delicious. Make sure you have a doughnut pan so you can easily drop in the dough and pop it in the oven. You can add fiber by swapping 50 percent of the all-purpose flour for whole-wheat pastry flour. Other creative spins on un-fried doughnuts include making doughnut muffins with the same flavor profile, or making cookies topped with a touch of jelly, as the cookie is much thinner than the doughnut (and therefore has fewer calories).

Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts

Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts (pictured above)

Mini Doughnut Muffins

Glazed Doughnut Crisps

Jelly-Glazed Doughnut Cookies

Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. She is the author of The Greek Yogurt Kitchen: More Than 130 Delicious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Day.

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