Sweet Potato Pancakes

I was craving sweet potatoes, so I decided to make some sweet potato pancakes since I didn't have time to bake the potatoes. I served them with steak, but they would have been great with salmon too. I also made a very simple raspberry chipotle sauce to go with the steak and it was great on the potatoes, that recipe coming next.

Sweet Potato Pancakes

Servings: 2

Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 25 mins

Ingredients
1 sm-med sweet potato
2 green onions
1-2 cloves of garlic
1/4 cup egg whites
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
oil

Directions
Wash and grate whole sweet potato and large side of grater (no need to peel). Chop green onions and garlic. Mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl. Heat a pan on medium-high heat. When the pan is hot coat with just enough oil so they won't stick. The mixture will be very moist, but form balls and when you place them into the hot pan press down so they are pancakes. There should be about 4 pancakes. Once the pancakes are browned on one side, about 5 minutes, flip and brown on the other side. Then turn down heat to medium and cook for another 10 minutes or until the sweet potatoes are cooked.

Serving Suggestion
I also made a raspberry chipotle sauce to go on some steak I had and it also went well on the sweet potato pancakes. Serve with a salad with spicy balsamic dijon vinaigrette from steak salad post (March 2011).