 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosso here so today is the first day of Chanukah both here in Israel and around the Jewish world and of course Chanukah is both known as the Festival of Lights and it's also traditionally associated with eating fried foods including both latkes and other fried foods. Now anyone who's been following this channel knows a few weeks ago I started moving towards a low fat diet because I had my gallbladder removed two years ago and I've been having a lot of trouble with my digestion ever since and the low fat diet has been the best thing I've discovered in that respect in two years I'm feeling a ton better so what I did I actually went ahead and bought a Ninja Max air fryer I'm going to just try swivel the camera around here I picked this guy up on Friday just before Shabbat here and it's a big old chunky device it really takes up a ton of counter space here so much so that there's no room for the air fryer but this is it it's a really beefy one got this in Max and I decided we're going to a Chanukah party tonight so I thought I'd look up air fryer locker recipes and came across this one from kitchen so basically what is required now how good am I a cooking on a scale of one to ten I'm probably about one so it's not my specialty but you know what I'm gonna give this a shot some ingredients here have mats of meat and stocks I'm gonna throw in some flour and hope it all works you know hopefully it'll work it says firstly ingredients are one and a half pound of russet potatoes which it says are that's two to three potatoes half a medium yellow onion two large eggs two teaspoons of kosher salt half a teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper some cooking spray which I definitely have I'm not gonna do the accoutrements the sour cream and applesauce grate the potatoes in the onion put them on a kitchen towel pull up the sides okay getting out the moisture transfer the potato mixture into a large bowl then you throw in the eggs and the matamille and the kosher salt and the black pepper then you put your air fryer up to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and set set it to a cooking time of 16 minutes and drop the vodka mixture in two tablespoon dollops into the air fryer flattening the top to make a patty spray the top and then half way through you flip so eight minutes on each side and that's it that's a recipe so I'm gonna give this a shot now got my three potatoes I've got my grater I've got a potato scrubber I've got my onion I've got a knife and I've got a mixing bowl to put all this into I'm just gonna go and as the recipe says just start grating this into our mixing bowl this is probably gonna take a while okay this is the three potatoes grated quite a quite a bicep work at Mose so the half of an onion is being grated there on top of the tomato and now we go and mix this all together in this bowl and we're bringing out a colander I have an assistant now helping me we're just putting this in and just gonna use drain it out and this way dump the drain you can see how much less liquids in that the drained potato and onion mixture into this mixing bowl I'm gonna mix and now the rest ingredients okay going firstly with my two eggs egg one egg two okay so as I mentioned the recipe called for matzo meal unfortunately we don't have any in stock I'm gonna need to leave for this party in about 20 minutes so what I'm gonna do instead is just put in some white flour this is half a cup measuring spoon I've just filled it up about halfway to attempt to get a quarter coming in with the two teaspoons of kosher salt this recipe calls for just gonna use pre-ground black pepper here and I'm gonna just kind of go conservatively okay so the recipe says to preheat the air fryer up to 375 degrees Fahrenheit which is 190 in salsa so just time is supposed to be set for 16 minutes so just pull out the air fryer baskets and rolling up these patties with my hands and then it says to just spray them on top so I'm just gonna position them with a good deal of space between each one because as I'm that's everything I've read about the air fryer so far is you want to really you don't want to overcrowd the things in the air fryer to make sure that everything is spaced out well speaking of that I must say as inconvenient as it is to be preparing stuff like this at home it's gonna get me a lot more time in the kitchen I have found it really makes a big difference I need to be pretty diligent as well in terms of keeping to it for one two three four and five they're pretty much evenly spaced there I think that's about as many as I'm gonna get in so I'm just gonna pop in the container now so I have my five potato latkes sitting in my basket first ever latke making attempt and now I'm just whipping out the old canola oil spray oil I'm gonna just give these guys a little spray on the top I don't know if that is way too much or just enough so you give them one spray and they go to mr. air fryer 20 190 okay so we're underway officially okay so the cooking time is just past eight minutes and as I put it on for 20 that means eight minutes have elapsed in the cooking cycles I'm just gonna go ahead and take these right out they smelled really really good and they're looking kind of like ask I must say so that's decent so far now I'm gonna just flip them and put them on the other side alright so just taking a spatula now and rolling them over I'm gonna just give them a quick dab of spray oil they're kind of clinging together a little bit but not too much they obviously don't look the same as latkes as they come out of a frying pan but on the plus side they are not neither shallow-fried nor deep-fried they are air-fried something we've come to realize in the kind of few times we've used our airfire since we got it is that all the recipes seem to call for cooking spray oil I don't know if it's almost outed to keep to kind of cover themselves in case stuff really sticks we found with the Korean fried chicken that the batch that was totally air-fried and the ones that had spray oil they were basically indistinguishable I've done a separate video just showing these things these are called gastronome pans they're also known as chef pans or a GN pans and this is specifically a quarter inch GN pan and I made a video like them I think they're absolutely amazing they're so versatile for food storage they can be heated they can be put into a freezer so I'm gonna put all my batches and just layer them up inside of this and I'm two minutes early at six minutes left to run on the air fryer timer and those look totally cooked to me at least on this side they're actually if they cook much longer I think they're gonna get overcooked and burned and you can just see the color of the latkes is looking good it's looking good on that side it's looking good on this side and they look pretty decent to me so I'm just gonna go ahead now and as I said load these guys up into a gastronome pan and they're going to be served alongside not specifically low fat apple sauce and the other traditional serving so the only negative thing and this is kind of obvious but I'll just say it anyway so the negative is that you know I'm gonna have to do this in batches and so that was 14 minutes that would be actually seven minutes per side on my setting here on my air fryer that was enough so that's gonna be another 14 minutes to cook another batch and another 28 minutes for you know half an hour essentially to go through two more batches so it's kind of a slow cooking method the tedious part is you're gonna have to flip it halfway through and change out the batches so I just pulled one of my latkes out of the air fryer so these are really crunchy and whoa I would have absolutely no idea that there these are these were air fried or not you know conventionally fried crispy and they taste just like latkes so that's good enough for me and what I'm doing differently for batch number two is I've actually not used any spray oil whatsoever so I'm just gonna see how differently these guys turn out okay I just finished my propaganda label so mistakes me for somebody saying and we're about to bounce with these low-fat latkes these air fryer latkes in hand to show people that you don't need a big tub of fat to cook great tasting food