Feb 03 2017

How to make the most delicious pancakes?

Hello, my dear friends, regular readers and visitors who accidentally dropped by!

Oh, something so wanted potato pancakes! I want to cook the most delicious! This is me losing weight by the summer. And, anyway, Maslenitsa is coming soon. After that, I'll start. And today potatoes are on the agenda!

We have already prepared with you, and even.

But there are still many recipes. While I was looking, I learned so many new and interesting things.

It is believed that potato pancakes were invented in Belarus. And the name came from there. It is the most common dish there; it is even served in restaurants of even the most expensive ones. And they are mainly made from potatoes and onions.

But here in Russia in different regions they are called differently: kakorki, teruns, teruns, terunks, deeriks. And they cook everything in their own way.

But there are some common features and now I will tell you about them.

• For potato pancakes, yellow potatoes are best; they contain a lot of starch. And for some reason they are the most delicious from him.
• To prevent the potatoes from darkening, it is necessary to mix with onions, one potato, an onion, again a potato and an onion.
• The best spices for potato pancakes are curry, ground black pepper, coriander, marjoram, red pepper, white mustard, dried dill, garlic, Bell pepper and chili
• Do not put too thick pancakes in the pan, they may not fry inside.
• The prepared Belarusian delicacy must be laid out on a towel, which will remove excess vegetable oil.
• The Belarusians have a secret - they use a special grater for potato pancakes. It looks like a fine grating grater that is found in almost every kitchen. But I like the big one more. A completely different taste is obtained.

My favorite simple pancakes without flour are potatoes, eggs and salt. But the diet needs to be varied, so I have collected several recipes. I tried everything. All awesome, for those who understand. And my family loved the cheese ones. She treated her friend to mushrooms - she liked it. In general, the taste, the color. Choose for yourself what you like.

Traditional Belarusian pancakes

• - 3-4 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Frying oil
• Sour cream - for serving, without it in any way

Grate potatoes with onions. You can do this in a food processor, It will not be faster and tears from the onion. We put it in a bowl. You can remove excess juice, just squeeze it out.

Add salt and pepper.

Heat oil in a skillet and fry. About three minutes on each side, then you can still hold it a little under the lid - this is for softness. I like crunchy, so I put it on a napkin right away to remove the excess oil.

Serve with sour cream right away, while hot.

The most delicious pancakes with cheese

• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
• - 100 g
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Sour cream for serving

Rubbing raw potatoes along with onions. Add the egg, flour, salt, pepper and grated cheese. Mix everything until smooth.

Fry on both sides for about 3 minutes until golden brown.

There is another option. We do not add cheese to the dough, but simply sprinkle on top of the almost ready-made tortillas, cover with a lid and let the cheese melt.

Be sure to serve hot with sour cream. Mmmm the cheese is stretching, so delicious!

Potatoes with mushrooms

• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• - 200 g
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
• Cheese - 100 g
• Salt and spices to taste
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Butter for frying mushrooms

Finely chop the mushrooms and fry in butter with onions.

Now we rub the potatoes, add an egg, salt, spices, flour to it, knead well. Now the mushrooms have cooled down. We mix. We fry.

Another option. You can not add mushrooms to the dough, but make the cakes more and

wrap mushrooms in them like a filling.

Potato with pumpkin

• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• - 200 g
• Milk - a third of a glass
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
• Salt and spices to taste
• Vegetable oil for frying

Rub the potatoes and pumpkin.

Now you need to boil the milk and pour the potatoes over them, let it stand for 5 minutes, soak it. Then the milk can be drained through a colander. Add grated pumpkin to the potatoes, mix. Now the egg - you need to separate the yolk from the protein, add the yolk immediately, and beat the protein with a whisk and gently add to the dough. Now flour, salt and spices.

Heat the frying pan well, put the butter in there and fry our potato pancakes on both sides. At the end, cover with a lid and let it sweat a little, for softness.

And serve hot sour cream. Incredibly delicious for those who love pumpkin.

With tomatoes and herbs

• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• - 2-3 pcs.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
• Greens to taste
• Garlic 1-2 cloves
• Salt and spices to taste
• Vegetable oil for frying

As always, rub raw potatoes, add flour, salt, spices, garlic (through a garlic press). Chop the tomatoes finely and the greens and add them to the dough

Fry until golden crisp.

There is a vegan option without an egg. Will not fall apart. The taste does not change at all. Try it.

With zucchini

• Potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• - 1 PC.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
• Greens to taste
• Garlic 1-2 cloves
• Salt and spices to taste
• Vegetable oil for frying

Potatoes, onions, zucchini. wash, clean, rub. There is a lot of juice in the zucchini, it is better to squeeze it out by hand or let it drain in colorant. Add flour, salt, spices, egg.

You can please loved ones by doing interesting dish- ordinary potato pancakes. These are pancakes, but instead of flour-based dough, chopped potatoes are fried. Simple Belarusian potato pancakes are traditionally made with garlic, onions and eggs, but there are other options for the dish with the addition of minced meat, cheese, mushrooms, zucchini and even cottage cheese.

Recipe 1. Classic

Potato pancakes, the recipe of which is most often used, is liked by almost everyone. it classic version dishes.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potato tubers;
• 3 onions;
• 2 eggs;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour or starch;
• salt and black pepper to taste;
• olive or any other odorless vegetable oil for frying;
• 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream or milk.

How to cook, with a photo:

1. Grate the tubers along with the onions on a fine grater.
2. Drain off excess juice.
3. Beat eggs, mix them with chopped garlic cloves, black pepper, salt and combine with potato mass.
4. Add milk or sour cream, starch (flour).
5. Spoon into skillet and fry on both sides until golden crisp (about 5 minutes). There is no need to close the lid.

Advice! If the mass of eggs and potatoes is thick enough, then you do not need to add flour or starch.

Classic pancakes are served with sour cream. They will be especially tasty with machanka - a traditional Belarusian sauce designed specifically for potato pancakes.

Machanka recipe: cut salted ribs, smoked sausage, ghee and ham, put everything in a pot and simmer with sour cream. Choose the proportions of the products arbitrarily, according to your taste, it is not necessary to add all the listed ingredients.

Recipe 2. No eggs

Potato pancakes without eggs are the easiest dish to prepare, but very tasty. Making such lean potato pancakes will not be difficult even for an inexperienced cook, and you will need a minimum set of products.

Ingredients:

• 5 medium-sized potato tubers;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour;
• salt and seasoning to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Advice! Potatoes with a high starch content are ideal for cooking. This allows you to get potato mass the desired consistency.

Step by step cooking:

1. Peel the tubers and grate on a fine (until mashed potato) or coarse grater. The better the tubers are chopped, the more homogeneous the mass will turn out and the thinner the pancakes. Coarsely grated potatoes make potato pancakes with a crisper crust.
2. Squeeze out the resulting potato mass, removing excess liquid from it. If this is not done, the pancakes will blur in the pan.
3. Add salt, flour and spices to the potatoes. Mix thoroughly.
4. Spoon the resulting dough into a skillet with heated vegetable oil. Fry on one side, then on the other, turning the pancakes over.

Serve with sour cream.

Recipe 3. With minced meat

Potato pancakes with minced meat are more satisfying, men especially like their taste. Making the dish is simple, although it will take a little longer to prepare it than when cooking according to the classic recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 300 g of any minced meat;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper to taste.

How to cook:

1. Peel the onions, cut one of them into half rings and fry in a skillet in vegetable oil until golden brown.
2. Thoroughly chop the second onion with a blender or grater. Divide the resulting mass into 2 parts.
3. Add one of the chopped onions, salt and pepper to the minced meat.
4. Peel the tubers and grate it on a fine grater. Mix the resulting mass with the remaining onions, salt and pepper.
5. Fry pancakes in a pan (preferably with non-stick coating) in vegetable oil. Spoon the potato mass into a preheated frying pan and smooth it out - the layer should be thin. Top, in the middle of the pancakes, put some minced meat and cover it with potato mass.
6. Fry on one side first, then turn over and fry on the other. Cover the pan with a lid - this will allow the pancakes to bake well.
7. Serve with seared onions.

Advice! Without changing the set of products and their proportions, you can make potato and meat pancakes - mix the potato mass with minced meat and fry like ordinary pancakes.

Recipe 4.With sausage and cheese

Potato pancakes with ordinary boiled sausage and cheese turn out to be satisfying, and at the same time they are very tasty. The dish is perfect for lunch or breakfast.

Ingredients:

• 500 g potato tubers (6 pcs.);
• 100 g of boiled sausage;
• 100 g of cheese;
• 1 onion;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• salt and black pepper to taste (other spices can be added);
• sunflower oil for frying.

Step by step recipe for how to cook:

1. Grate peeled potatoes with onions on a coarse grater or chop with a blender.
2. Squeeze out excess juice.
3. Cut the sausage and cheese into thin slices, mix with the potato mass, add the egg, flour, spices, salt.
4. Spoon the mixture into a skillet with heated vegetable oil.
5. Fry on one side and on the other until golden brown (about 5 minutes).
6. Blot finished pancakes with a paper towel to remove excess oil.

Serve hot with sour cream.

Recipe 5. In the oven

Potato pancakes can be made not only in a frying pan, they will turn out no less tasty if you cook them in the oven. The crust will be just as golden and crispy. In this case, the dish will not come out so greasy, since the amount of vegetable oil used in the cooking process will significantly decrease. We can say that potato pancakes will turn out to be dietary.

Ingredients:

• 4 large potatoes;
• 1 egg;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• half an onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• salt and spices to your taste;
• vegetable oil.

How to cook:

1. Coarsely grate the peeled potato tubers and onions. Drain or squeeze out excess juice.
2. Add mayonnaise to the potato-onion mass immediately.
3. Finely chop the cloves of garlic or pass through a special garlic press.
4. Mix the mixture, garlic and egg, salt.
5. Add flour.
6. The dough should be quite viscous to form into tortillas.
7. Turn on the oven, it should warm up to 200-220 degrees.
8. Line a baking sheet with pre-oiled parchment paper.
9. Place the cakes on the paper.
10. It takes 20 minutes to brown the pancakes. During the cooking process, they will need to be turned over once.

Serve warm with sour cream, ketchup or mayonnaise.

Recipe 6.With zucchini

Very tasty potato pancakes are obtained with zucchini, the addition of which gives tenderness to the dish.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 1 medium-sized vegetable marrow
• 3 eggs;
• 1 large onion
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• salt, garlic and seasonings to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• sour cream for serving dishes to the table.

Advice! Zucchini is better to take young, with unripe seeds.

How to cook:

1. Grind the tubers on a fine grater or with a blender.
2. Grate the zucchini and the peeled onion on a coarse grater.
3. Combine potatoes, onions, and zucchini.
4. Add pre-beaten eggs, spices, chopped garlic, salt everything.
5. Spread out with a tablespoon, shaping the pancakes and fry them in a skillet in heated vegetable oil until crisp and golden brown. First on one side, then on the other.

Advice! If desired, you can add any greens to the mass.

Serve hot with sour cream. Potato pancakes with zucchini will appeal to adults and children.

Potato pancakes will turn out to be especially tasty if you use the recommendations for their preparation.

1. Choose the right potatoes: they should contain a lot of starch. Large potatoes with a rough skin, yellowish inside, are ideal. There is not very much starch in young tubers, so they are not very suitable for cooking potato pancakes.
2. Insufficient "starchiness" of potatoes is easy to eliminate - just add 1-2 tablespoons of starch to the mass.
3. Grate the tubers on a fine grater at the same time as the onion. This will prevent darkening of the mass. You don't have to do it by hand, use a blender or food processor. You can grind potatoes with an ordinary juicer - in this case, the juice and pulp must be mixed, but there should not be too much liquid.
4. In unnecessarily batter add flour, but here it is important not to overdo it, otherwise the pancakes will turn out to be slightly "rubbery". It is better to use starch for this purpose.
5. Spices enhance the taste and aroma of the dish, add them as you wish.
6. Potato pancakes will turn out with a golden crust, crispy if fried in a well-heated pan. The vegetable oil should cover half the thickness of the potato mass.
7. Too thick potato pancakes may not be fried inside, so when spreading the mass, it must be leveled with a spoon, making them thinner.
8. You can get rid of excess fat by putting potato pancakes not on a plate at once, but on paper napkins.

Potato pancakes are an easy-to-prepare dish with minimal set ingredients, but very tasty and satisfying. A dish can be made to taste completely different by adding various spices.

Potatoes can be used to make a lot of delicious and hearty dishes... And one of them is potato pancakes. What is it, and how to prepare such a dish?

What are potato pancakes?

Draniki are, in fact, potato pancakes. Such a dish is considered, but it is also found in the cuisines of other countries of the world.

So, in Ukraine, potato pancakes are called potato pancakes, in - latkes, in Sweden - ragmunks (which translates as "bristly monk"), in the Czech Republic - bramboraks, in America - hashbrows, and in Lithuania such a dish is called potato pancakes... By the way, the word draniki is translated from Old Russian as “to rub, to tear”, so we can assume that the name contains the whole essence of the dish.

A bit of history

It is not known exactly when and where pancakes were first used exactly in the form in which they are known to us. After all, potatoes began to be cultivated for a long time, and, probably, a wide variety of dishes were prepared from it. So, the first mention of potato pancakes dates back to 1830.

And some believe that they appeared under the influence of German cuisine. But if Belarus is still considered the homeland of the dish, then here initially the potatoes were not grated on a grater (then there were simply no graters), but on the board.

In those days, they ate potato pancakes for breakfast. And there was also such a tradition: before the main meal, one had to eat a crust of black bread. Potato pancakes are always eaten only hot with sour cream, melted bacon or butter.

Ingredients

There are many different recipes pancakes, but in its original form, such a dish consisted of only a few components. Let's list the ingredients that are used most often and in most cases:

• Potato. It is worth telling about it separately, because it is he who is the main and most important ingredient. The taste depends on his choice ready meal... It is worth choosing varieties with a high starch content, since if there is not enough of it, then the potato pancakes will not be juicy and soft or will burn during the frying process. it is better not to use it, there is little starch in it.
• Eggs play the role of a binding element, so many add them too. Usually there is 1 egg for 4-5 potatoes.
• Onion. Onions, firstly, make the pancakes more juicy and give them a pleasant taste. Secondly, onion juice protects the potatoes from browning and allows the potato mass to be stored longer.
• Flour or starch. If you can't find starchy potatoes, add the starch as you cook. It can be substituted with wheat or corn flour.
• Instead of onions, some use kefir, which also prevents browning.
• Salt and pepper are added to taste. As for other spices, they are traditionally not used. But you can add garlic or dill or parsley.
• If you like to experiment in the kitchen, you can make potato pancakes with filling or simply mix potatoes with vegetables or minced meat.

How to cook?

How to cook delicious pancakes? There are some rules to keep in mind. Here are the main cooking steps:

1. Peel and wash the potatoes first.
2. Now you need to start grinding. How to grate potatoes? It all depends on your preferences and tastes, as well as on what kind of potato pancakes you want to get in the end. If you plan to cook tender and uniform potato pancakes, then use a fine grating grater. If you want the potato pancakes to be fried and crunchy, then grate the potatoes on a medium or even coarse grater. If you don't have much time, you can use a blender or meat grinder for chopping.
3. Then you need to squeeze out excess juice from the potatoes. In general, you do not need to do this, since the juice also gives the dish special taste... By the way, the mass with juice is called tarkovanny. There is also a mass of clinked (in this case, the juice is squeezed out) and boiled. In the latter case, the potatoes are first boiled and then chopped in boiled form.
4. Now mix the potato mass with the egg, add the onion or other ingredients, as well as salt and pepper. Knead the dough. In consistency, it will resemble not too thick sour cream.
5. Now start cooking. It is best to fry the pancakes, as they will be crispy in this form. But you can also use an oven, multicooker, and even a double boiler. By the way, ghee is best suited for frying or butter, but you can also use ordinary vegetable (preferably refined).

Recipes

We offer you several recipes for potato pancakes.

First recipe

These are the simplest potato pancakes. Ingredients for cooking:

• 3 large potatoes;
• 1 small onion;
• 1 egg;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Peel and grate potatoes. Squeeze out excess juice if necessary.
2. Peel the onion and either chop finely, or grate, or chop in a blender.
3. Mix potatoes and onions, add egg, salt and pepper. Mix everything well.
4. Heat oil or fat in a skillet.
5. Spoon the mass into a preheated pan, leaving a free space between the pancakes (at least 1 centimeter) so that they do not stick together.
6. Fry the pancakes until golden brown on each side.

Second recipe

If you cannot imagine your life without meat, then prepare meat pancakes. Here's what you need:

• 100 grams of pork;
• 100 grams of beef;
• 700 grams of potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 3 tablespoons of kefir;
• 1 egg;
• 3 bunches of dill greens;
• pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the meat, clean it from the veins and pass it through a meat grinder. You can immediately mince and peeled onions.
2. Peel and grate the potatoes on a medium grater. Squeeze out excess juice and mix potato mass with kefir and egg.
3. Chop the dill with a knife, after washing and drying.
4. Add minced meat, chopped dill, pepper and salt. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Fry the pancakes in butter.

Third recipe

Pancakes with mushrooms are very tasty. The list of ingredients is as follows:

For potato pancakes:

• 600 grams of potatoes;
• 300 grams of fresh champignons;
• 2 eggs;
• 2 onions;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• salt and pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

• 200 grams of sour cream;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• dill greens;
• salt.

How to cook? Everything is very simple:

1. Start with mushrooms. Wash them well and cut them into small pieces.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan, fry the mushrooms.
3. Now grate the pre-peeled potatoes on a fine grater.
4. Peel and finely chop the onion or chop it in a meat grinder or blender.
5. Combine the potato mass with mushrooms and onions, add flour, eggs, pepper and salt. Mix everything well.
6. Put the mass in a pan, fry the pancakes on each side for 4-7 minutes until golden brown.
7. Now prepare the sauce. To do this, peel and grate the garlic, chop the dill with a knife (do not forget to wash it). Add dill and garlic to sour cream, salt and mix everything.
8. Serve hot potato pancakes with sauce.

Several useful tips about cooking potato pancakes:

• If you decide to cook potato pancakes with filling, then do the filling in advance, it should be completely ready. So if you use raw mushrooms, they will not be cooked through.
• Start frying potato pancakes immediately after making the dough. Grated potatoes not even refrigerated.
• Do not be stingy with oil. It should cover half of the potato pancakes. If there is not enough oil, then the pancakes will not be crispy and golden.
• To remove excess oil after cooking, blot the potato pancakes with paper towels.
• Cook the potato pancakes at one time, as they will not be so tasty when reheated. It is better to serve such a dish directly from the pan.

Now you know everything about cooking potato pancakes. Please your household and guests with this simple but delicious dish!

One of famous dishes of Belarusian cuisine are potato pancakes or shingles, potato pancakes. In other words, they are potato pancakes. This delicacy is served hot, with sour cream or butter. Pamper your loved ones with this delicious food - potato pancakes are prepared quite quickly, and their taste is indescribable. The scent will spread throughout the apartment. No one can resist such a delicacy.

How to cook regular pancakes?

Ingredients

1. Six potatoes.
2. One egg.
3. Two tablespoons of flour.
4. One onion head.
5. Salt and black pepper.
6. Sunflower oil for frying.

Cooking method

The washed and peeled potatoes must be coarsely grated with onions. Add egg and flour, salt and pepper to taste - mix everything, you should get a homogeneous mass.

Heat a skillet and sunflower oil in it. Spread the potato mass like pancakes - with a tablespoon. Fry small tortillas on each side for two to three minutes. As a result, a golden brown crust should form. After that, reduce the heat and simmer the treat for another three to four minutes with the lid closed.

Potato pancakes with meat

Such a dish is delicious and appetizing. To prepare it you will need:

1. Half a kilo of potatoes.
2. One hundred fifty grams minced meat.
3. One egg.
4. One or two onions.
5. Salt and sunflower oil.

Cooking instructions

Peel and rinse potatoes and onions. Grind them on a coarse grater. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Beat the egg and add flour - mix everything thoroughly.

Preheat a frying pan, put the potato mass on the hot sunflower oil with a tablespoon. Put some minced meat on top and cover with the potato mixture. Fry the pancakes on each side for two to three minutes until golden brown. After that, turn the heat to low, cover the skillet with a lid and simmer the dish for another four minutes.

Deruny without eggs

Such a dish is a real find for allergy sufferers and vegetarians, as well as for those who are fasting. In order for the potato pancakes not to fall apart during frying, it is necessary to grate half of the potatoes on a fine grater, and the other on a coarse one. Yes, and oil for such a recipe will require a little more.

Products that will be required when preparing a dish

1. Five medium-sized potatoes.
2. Salt and pepper.
3. One tablespoon of flour.
4. One teaspoon of starch.
5. Vegetable oil.
6. A pinch of baking soda.

Cooking instructions

Peel and grate the potato tubers - half fine and half coarse. Squeeze out the potatoes and add flour and starch. All other components are also added to the mass and mix everything. Place in a hot skillet with sunflower oil a tablespoon of potato mass. Fry on both sides until crusty. Serve this delicacy with mayonnaise or sour cream, or maybe with ketchup - whichever you prefer. You can cook it yourself tomato sauce... To do this, fry the onion half rings and add the chopped onion fresh tomatoes, peeling them off and salt. After a couple of minutes of stewing, add a little flour and boil the sauce until thickened.

Potato pancakes with mushrooms

This is a fantastic dish that will please all your household members.

Ingredients

1. Four large potatoes.
2. Three hundred grams of champignons.
3. One onion head.
4. Two tablespoons of flour.
5. Salt.
6. One egg.
7. Pepper.
8. Sunflower oil.

How to cook?

Chop the mushrooms finely, fry with an onion - the liquid should be corrected. Cool and add to the dough. Fry like potato pancakes. Serve such a delicacy with sour cream. During cooking, if necessary, you can add an additional egg to prevent the dough from creeping in the pan.

Peeled and coarsely grated potatoes should be mixed with an egg, salt and pepper.

Potato pancakes with cheese

In order to diversify the menu of a daily or solemn table, you can prepare mouth-watering potato-cheese pancakes that taste like cheese chips.

Ingredients

1. Five potatoes.
2. Five tablespoons of flour.
3. One onion head.
4. Two hundred grams of cheese.
5. Two eggs.
6. Salt and sunflower oil.

How to cook potato pancakes?

Coarsely or finely grate cheese and onions, as well as peeled and washed raw potatoes. Add eggs and salt to taste. Add flour and mix everything. Fry on both sides in hot oil in a skillet.

1. So that the potato pancakes are not too greasy, blot them with a paper towel after frying.
2. The cooled delicacy can be heated in the microwave to make it tastier.
3. Add finely grated onion to the dough for an even better taste of pancakes. It also prevents the potatoes from darkening.
4. The oil should cover the bottom of the pan by about three millimeters - then the potato pancakes will not burn, they will have a beautiful and appetizing crust.
5. Cover the pan with a lid and the potato pancakes will cook through better.

For some reason, it is believed that potato pancakes are a dish of particular simplicity, and to make it, let's say, is a snap. But the only thing that has a bluish tint and a sticky consistency is not potato pancakes. These are ineptly cooked potato pancakes.

By the way, several world cuisines argue about whose dish it is. Somehow it so happened that it is considered a traditionally Belarusian dish. But the Ukrainians will correct you and say that these are not potato pancakes at all, but potato pancakes and the dish belongs to their cuisine, and the Jews will answer that latkes (this is again pancakes) is one of the main dishes on Hanukkah, and you can order it in the most prestigious restaurants. These are not simple ones, potato pancakes, or terunets, or kremzliks, or ...

If you do not succeed (or are obtained as described above with blue) potato pancakes, then read carefully, strictly follow the recipe and get the correct, most tender, sunny pancakes.

Since there are a lot of recipes for cooking, we will narrow this circle to a basic recipe, then complicate it a little, and then slightly change it. The main goal is to understand all the principles and subtleties of cooking potato pancakes. Join, it will be exciting, because you will learn a lot of secrets.

Basic recipe for potato pancakes

Anyway, potato pancakes are grated potatoes. That's the whole secret.

Ingredients

• potatoes - 5 large
• half onion
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
• eggs - 2
• salt, pepper to your taste
• vegetable oil for frying

How to cook potato pancakes

Grate potatoes and onions on a fine grater (with the smallest round holes). If you have an assistant (harvester), then the task of making a lot of potato pancakes is greatly simplified.

First, grate the onion and place it in a bowl.

Secret first. Onions, being oxidized, do not darken the potatoes. Therefore, firstly, the finished pancakes will have a golden color, and, secondly, there is no need to rush, fearing that the potatoes will darken.

Second secret. Potato pancakes are also called potato pancakes, hence the misconception that the consistency of pancakes should be similar to the consistency of pancake dough.

We will not be mistaken, therefore, we will remove all the liquid from the potatoes and other products that will be used.

To do this, flip the potatoes and onions in a colander, and when the liquid drains, squeeze it out - there should only be a "dry residue" at the exit. Add salt, pepper, egg and flour and mix thoroughly.

Add salt, pepper, egg and flour and mix thoroughly.

Fry in a preheated skillet with vegetable oil, spreading the pancakes with a tablespoon.

Don't make them too thick, smooth with the back of a spoon.

The third secret : fry over medium heat - potatoes should cook well inside too.

The fourth secret: put potato pancakes on a paper napkin, which will take away excess oil, because they are best served with sour cream, and so much fat is not very useful, albeit tasty.

The fifth secret: if you want to get crispy pancakes, do not stack in a pile, lay out in one layer.

Serve potato pancakes immediately, while they are hot. With sour cream, into which be sure to cut the greens.

On a note... If you need to serve a large number of fried pancakes, then turn on the oven (t 120-140), cover the baking sheet with parchment and put the pancakes from the pan on it. When everything is overcooked, place the baking sheet in a warm oven until serving, but not too long so that the pancakes do not dry out.

Potato pancakes with filling

Yes, if to basic recipe add the filling, you get a new dish. And although potatoes never get bored, you still want variety. What kind of filling to take? Imagine boiled potatoes or fried, with what would you eat it? Yes, with anything. This is exactly this "anything" and can be an addition. For example, Belarusians prefer to add meat, an excellent addition is the most different vegetables: eggplants, bell peppers, garlic, mushrooms, zucchini and others. Or sauerkraut.

Replace flour with starch to make it completely potato.

Ingredients for the recipe

• potatoes - 3 pcs.
• onion - 1
• sauerkraut - 130 grams
• egg - 1
• potato starch - 1 tbsp. spoon
• vegetable oil to fry

How to cook stuffed potato pancakes

Finely grate the onions and potatoes, discard in a colander.
Cut the cabbage very finely.
Squeeze out potatoes and cabbage and place in a bowl.

Break the egg into a small bowl, loosen it and pour over the potatoes. Add starch, stir.

Fry, as in the first case, in vegetable oil, medium heat. Place on a napkin.
Serve hot.

Potato pancakes with carrots

Why with carrots? Because she and potatoes are very tasty combination... Carrots give tenderness and sweetness to potatoes, and potatoes endow carrots with satiety.

But so that life does not seem like a culinary paradise, we will make potato pancakes, grated on a coarse grater.

Ingredients for the recipe

• potatoes - 4
• carrots - 1 medium
• greens, salt, pepper - to taste
• egg - 1
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons

How to cook potato pancakes with carrots

Grate the carrots and potatoes on a coarse grater. Place in a colander, then squeeze and transfer to a bowl. By the way, there is much less liquid from coarsely grated potatoes.

Add the egg and finely chopped herbs and season with salt and pepper. Stir.

Add flour and mix well again.
Fry over medium heat in vegetable oil.

Serve hot with sour cream.

ON A NOTE

Having tried variations with finely and coarsely grated potatoes, you will understand which one you like best. But this is not a reason to stop, because you can combine, for example, finely and medium grated potatoes - you get a soft center and a crispy top.

If some vegetables rub badly on a fine grater, pass them through a meat grinder.

P. S. It seems that we diligently revealed all the secrets of making potato pancakes, and they are clearly visible on your monitor. Or have we forgotten something? .. Then remind me, please, in the comments everything that you think is necessary, important and useful.