5 Ways To Class Up Your Latkes This Hanukkah

The sour cream and applesauce combo is so yesterday. These recipe tweaks and tasty toppings bring an extra bit of awe to the miraculous holiday.

1. Add Some Beets

Via strawberrypepper.com

Replacing a few potatoes with an equal amount of grated beets beets brings color, sweetness and earthiness to the standard latke.

Recipe here.

2. Put an Egg on It

Via southern-spoon.blogspot.com

Is there any food that's not improved by the unctuous presence of a runny fried egg? Absolutely not. For a change of pace, try a big egg-topped latke for breakfast or brunch this holiday.

Recipe here.

3. Pretend Your Latke is a Bagel and Add Lox to It

Via saveur.com

If there's anything better than an everything bagel—a doubtful prospect, to be sure—it's a crispy latke topped with all the fixings that make said bagel great.

Recipe here.

4. Go New York Times-Style Fancy with Your Toppings

Via nytimes.com

Melissa Clark over at the Times has the right idea when it comes to serving latkes to a posh crowd—she tops her potato pancakes with caviar, figs, pomegranate and gorgonzola (not all on one latke, promise).

Recipes here.

5. Grate in Some Sweet Potatoes

Via babble.com

Hanukkah overlaps with Thanksgiving this year, and if those two holidays were to get together and make a baby, it would be a sweet potato latke. Sweet, crispy and perfectly appropriate to both festivals, these latkes will be right at home on your Thanksgivukkah table.

Recipe here.