Zemiakové Placky

Ingredients

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• 2¼ lb Potatoes
• 1 medium chopped Onion
• 2 clove Garlic
• 4 large flax egg
• 4 Tbsp All purpose flour
• 1 tsp Marjoram
• To taste Salt
• To taste Black Pepper
• For frying vegetable broth 🛒

Method

1. Prep: mix 1 Tbsp ground flax + 3 Tbsp water, rest 5 min.
2. Prepare the Potatoes Start by peeling and finely grating the potatoes.
3. To ensure extra crispiness, use a clean kitchen towel to squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
4. Mix the Ingredients In a large mixing bowl, combine the grated potatoes, chopped onion, minced garlic, eggs, flour, marjoram, salt, and black pepper.
5. Stir well until the mixture forms a thick, consistent batter.
6. Heat the vegetable broth In a large frying pan, heat a generous amount of vegetable broth over medium heat.
7. The vegetable broth should be hot but not smoking.
8. water-sauté the Pancakes Spoon portions of the batter into the pan, flattening each into a thin pancake.
9. water-sauté until golden brown and crispy on one side, then flip and cook the other side until equally golden and crispy.
10. Drain & Serve Transfer the cooked pancakes onto a plate lined with paper towels to remove excess vegetable broth.
11. Serve immediately while hot, with sour cream, garlic dip, or as a side dish.

About the ingredients

Potatoes Solanum tuberosum

Potato is the starchy underground tuber of a nightshade (Solanaceae). Eaten whole/cooked it is rich in potassium, vitamin C, B6, and fiber (skin on). Whole potato: WFPB canonical (level 1). Refined forms (flour, fried chips) are noncanonical.

Onion Allium cepa

Bulb vegetable, eaten raw or cooked. Whole minimally-processed plant food; 'organic' refers to cultivation only. WFPB-canonical.

Garlic Allium sativum

Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.

flax egg

A whole-food plant-based egg replacer. One flax egg = one egg in baking.

All purpose flour Triticum aestivum

Refined wheat flour milled from the endosperm only, with bran and germ removed; 'unbleached' merely omits chemical whitening. Matrix-removed refined grain, hence noncanonical. Distinct from whole-wheat flour.

Marjoram Origanum majorana

Used in trace culinary amounts so micronutrient contribution is gram-for-gram dense but dietarily minor. Herb leaf, whole-food matrix intact; drying does not disqualify. Essential-oil form would be a different, noncanonical ingredient.

Salt NaCl

Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.

Black Pepper Piper nigrum

Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.

vegetable broth

A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.