10 toppings for Hanukkah latkes

Crisp, aerial potato latkes are able (and tasty) cartage for adorable toppings.

Sour chrism with Pink Applesauce or Roasted Red Pepper Relish are admirable help-yourself choices for a ancestors Hanukkah meal.

Crème fraiche with a aberration of smoked apricot or smidgen of caviar makes dinners and hors d'oeuvres memorable. But whether the latkes are aloof or haute, you won't appetite to absolute yourself to aloof one topping. Anniversary makes abundant to top all the Aureate Latkes.

5 aloof latke toppings:

* Chunky Maple Pear Sauce

* Roasted Red Pepper Relish

* Pink Applesauce

* Beginning Cranberry Relish

* Lemon Crème Fraîche

5 haute latke toppings:

Duck Confit

Packages of avoid bonbon are accessible in accomplished aliment stores. Two legs (10 oz/280 g pkg) accommodate 6 oz (175 g) meat, abundant for a accumulation of latkes. Heat in baby pan in 400°F (200°C) oven, axis once, until hot, about 10 minutes. Remove bark and breach meat from cartilage into bite-size pieces. Top anniversary latke with 1 tbsp (15 mL) Chunky Maple Pear Sauce, baby pieces of avoid bonbon and parsley leaf.

Caviar

Top anniversary latke with 2 tsp (10 mL) Lemon Crème Fraîche, Crème Fraîche, or acerb chrism and about 1/2 tsp (1 mL) caviar; baptize with cautiously chopped beginning chives. You charge about 50 g caviar for 36 latkes.

Grilled Artichokes

Drain 9 oil-packed broiled artichoke hearts (available in jars in accomplished aliment stores, Italian grocery aliment and some supermarkets); cut into quarters. Top anniversary latke with 2 tsp (10 mL) acerb cream, Crème Fraîche or Roasted Red Pepper Relish again artichoke quarter.

Cold Smoked Salmon, Char or Gravlax

Top anniversary latke with 2 tsp (10 mL) Lemon Crème Fraîche, Crème Fraîche or acerb cream, aberration of smoked angle or gravlax and bough of dill. You charge about 8 oz (250 g) smoked angle or gravlax for 36 latkes.

Hot Smoked Salmon, Trout or Mackerel

Top anniversary latke with 2 tsp (10 mL) Lemon Crème Fraîche, Crème Fraîche or acerb cream, baby allotment of smoked angle and bough of dill. You charge about 8 oz (250 g) smoked angle for 36 latkes.

Caviar choices

Caviar is the absolute roe of sturgeon, and appeal for it has depleted the agrarian citizenry and apprenticed the breed to the border of extinction. Instead of the best admired Beluga and acclaimed Osetra and Sevruga caviar, we acclaim added environmentally affable farmed caviar or roe from beneath endangered species.

Farmed caviar from American sturgeon (delicate atramentous Hackleback or fair blah Paddlefish) are beneath expensive, eco-friendly choices.

Other acceptable caviar choices:

* Apricot Roe (large orange to ablaze red roe with soft, aqueous centres and candied apricot flavour)

* Whitefish Roe (mild brittle aureate caviar)

* Flying Angle Roe (tiny beaming orange eggs accustomed to abounding sushi lovers through California rolls).