Hallelujah! It’s the Hanukkah Miracle Sandwich!
Just when you thought there were no more ways to eat donuts, this creation arrives from Eat More Better: How To Make Every Bite More Delicious.
On Hanukkah, American Jews eat fried potato pancakes (latkes), but in Israel, Jews celebrate with a different oily, fried food—donuts. I’ve brought these two traditions together to create a new sandwich: the Hanukkah Miracle.
It combines sweet and savory, sugary and tart, doughy and crispy.
Slice a glazed yeast donut in half and griddle it, cut side down, in a hot non-stick pan with melted butter:
Once the donut’s insides are crispy golden brown, remove it from the heat. This is your sandwich bread.
Spread sour cream on the un-griddled side of one donut half, top it with a potato latke, top that with applesauce, and finish the sandwich with the second donut half, griddled side up. (Try to make sure the sour cream and apple sauce are room temperature, unless you’re a fan of temperature contrast in sandwiches.)
When you’re finished, it looks like this:
Hanukkah celebrates the miraculous time the Jews’ oil lasted eight nights, but you’ll be lucky if this sandwich lasts eight seconds.
Dan Pashman’s new book, Eat More Better: How To Make Every Bite More Delicious, is available now wherever books are sold. He’s also the host of the Cooking Channel web series Good to Know and You’re Eating It Wrong, as well as the WNYC food podcast The Sporkful.
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