For Ashkenazi Jews, latkes are the quintessential Hanukkah holiday food. While these are most commonly made from shredded potatoes, these fried pancakes can be made from a variety of other ingredients. One underrated fruit you can make them with is green bananas. These underripe starchy versions of their sweeter yellow siblings are the perfect stand-in for potatoes and can be used in the same way for many recipes. They work well in latkes because of their slightly bitter but also mildly sweet flavor, and in their immature stage, they're still firm enough to shred. When you buy green bananas, they'll keep fresh for longer, and this is a good way to utilize some of them before they start to soften.
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