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First peel and wash your potatoes, cut them into smaller pieces and either grate them on a mandolin, grater or in food processor on grater blade.
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If you don't have any of those you can use a blender on a pulse setting to achieve the same result ,but you need to be careful not to over blend them or they end up like mashed potato.
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Squeeze out the potato with your hands , catch the liquid and set aside
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Now squeeze out the Sauerkraut, discard the sauer juices , add the Sauerkraut to the potatoes and mix well .
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Now squeeze out the potato and Sauerkraut mix , discard the liquid .
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Now carefully drain away the liquid from the potato water, you should be left with the potato starch , add this back to the potato and Sauerkraut and mix in well .
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If there is not at least one full table spoon of dissolved starch , add some bought corn or potato starch.
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Now grate the onion on a fine setting
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Add the onions, salt and pepper two eggs and mix well
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In the meantime heat a frying pan wit a few tablespoon of rapeseed oil
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With a tablespoon take out a heap full and carefully flattening this into a patty in the heated pan, take care not to burn yourself.
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Add another patty, cook no mor than two or three at time or it will be difficult to turn them.
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Drain on kitchen paper and serve either hot or cold .Every time you add two more cakes add a little more of the oil, until all the cakes are made.
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Here I served them with quark that I drained ,seasoned with dill, wild garlic ,salt and ground black pepper ,two teaspoons per person , which I spread on smoked salmon over a slice of pumpernickel another German delicatessen, I added a few prawns to have a complete meal.
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By any means use the same recipe just omit the Sauerkraut if you are not in favour of this , I just added them together as often they are served side by side.
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I have marked this as 2 servings, those would be generous servings.
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So you get away with 4 servings if you use the whole amount of recipe.
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If you double everything it makes 8 good portions.
