Sour pancakes - general cooking principles
If you hear the phrase "sour pancakes", you have various incomprehensible associations, it means that you are not familiar with the old Slavic recipe.
In fact, sour pancakes to taste can be sweet and fragrant, but they are prepared from fermented milk products. Do not rush to pour the sour milk, it can make great pancakes!
Sour pancakes can be dessert, if you add sugar, vanilla or cinnamon to the dough. But remember that a lot of sugar in the dough will make pancakes tougher.
If you do not put sugar in the dough for sour pancakes, then you can use the finished product as a shell for tasty and hearty fillings.
Sour pancakes - preparing food and dishes
Oddly enough, but “spoiled” sour milk is perfect for frying pancakes. This fact has been known to Slavic hostesses for many centuries, the time has come to try it out for you too.
Does the preparation of products for cooking pancakes have any particularities? In fact, yes. It is on the observance of these simple rules depends on how sour pancakes will be easy to fry and not to burn.
First of all, remember that the products for pancakes before mixing should be of the same temperature, preferably room temperature, and if you use water or milk in the recipe, you need to warm them up a little.
The second important point. It makes sense to beat the whites separately from the yolks. This will make the finished pancakes more airy and soft.
Also, do not forget to sift the flour. This should be done not so much in order to remove litter, as in order for the flour to be saturated with oxygen.
How to beat the dough for sour pancakes? You can use a whisk, but it's best to use an electric mixer or blender. Pancakes are obtained only from a well-mixed dough without lumps of flour. Do not forget to wash the beaters immediately after the dough has been prepared, otherwise you will have to spend a lot of energy on it.
In order to mix the dough, you will need a deep tank, a second tank for proteins, a frying pan (preferably cast iron or non-stick coating), a whisk or blender, a spatula to turn the pancakes over.
Sour Pancake Recipes:
Recipe 1: Sour Pancakes
This recipe is remarkable for its simplicity. In addition to sour milk for pancakes, it uses mineral water to make the finished product softer. Use cinnamon or vanilla if you want to fry sweet pancakes.
Ingredients Required:
- Sour milk 1 cup
- Purified water 1 cup
- Flour 2 glasses
- Egg 2 pieces
- Sugar 2 tablespoons
- Salt
- Baking Powder 3/4 tsp
- Sunflower oil (for dough and for greasing the pan)
Preparation Method:
- The first step is to separate the proteins from the yolks. After adding a little salt to the proteins, beat them with a mixer until a fluffy foam is formed. The denser the foam is, the more airy the pancakes will be.
- In a separate bowl, you need to beat the sugar, yolks with a blender, add slightly warmed water to the egg.
- Add sour milk, baking powder to the mixture, gently pour in the flour. In the resulting homogeneous mixture pour egg whites, add a couple of tablespoons of oil. Stir with a spoon.
- Lubricate the heated pan with oil and pour a little dough to make the pancake thin or more if you want to make pancakes thick and fluffy.
Recipe 2: Sour pancakes on buckwheat flour
If you take more buckwheat flour, then according to this recipe, sour pancakes will turn out to be brownish, and if wheat flour, then lighter. What to serve such pancakes? If you add sugar and vanilla, you get a sweet dessert, fresh or salty pancakes can be served with any meat fillings. The most delicious are sour pancakes on buckwheat flour with liver filling or liver. Ingredients Required:
- Flour 1 cup
- Buckwheat flour 1 cup
- Egg 2 pieces
- Sour milk 3 glasses
- Soda 1 tsp
- Baking Powder 1.5 tsp
- Sugar
- Salt
- Sunflower oil
Preparation Method:
- In a deep bowl, break the eggs, pour in sour milk, and also salt, sugar, soda, and start beating with a whisk, spoon, or mixer at low speed.
- Gradually add wheat and buckwheat flour, baking powder to the dough.
- Let the dough infuse for about five minutes, then add a few spoons of vegetable oil to the dough and mix it with a spoon.
- Fry pancakes in a heated frying pan for 40 seconds on each side on medium heat.
Recipe 3: Sour pancakes with cinnamon
Delicious flavored sour pancakes you get by adding cinnamon to the recipe. Serving such pancakes is best with apple jam or candied apples. In addition, before frying pancakes, you can add candied fruit or sliced apples to the pancake mixture.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 1.5 glasses
- Egg 2 pieces
- Sour milk 2 glasses
- Soda 1/2 tsp
- Citric acid 1/3 tsp
- Salt
- Sugar
- Vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Break eggs into deep dishes, add soda, sugar, citric acid, salt, mix everything up.
- While mixing, add half the yoghurt to the mixture, add a thin stream of flour.
- Add the remaining milk, cinnamon, mix again, pour in a couple of tablespoons of sunflower oil.
- Fry pancakes for one minute on each side over medium heat.
Recipe 4: Sour pancakes for meat filling
These pancakes you can fry, in order to make a delicious snack on a festive table. Fried mushrooms, minced meat or chicken mince, rice with chopped eggs can be used as a filling. You can add some dill to the dough.
Ingredients Required:
- Kefir non-greasy 2 cups
- Egg 1 piece
- Flour 2 glasses
- Soda -1/2 tsp
- Apple Vinegar 1 tablespoon
- Sugar
- Salt
- Sunflower oil
Preparation Method:
- In the dishes, where you will prepare the dough for sour pancakes, beat the eggs, add sugar and salt.
- Add half the kefir to the dishes, gently pour the flour and beat with a blender at low speed. Pour in the second part of kefir and soda, slaked with vinegar, add vegetable oil, mix.
- Fry pancakes for one minute, not forgetting to lubricate the speed with oil.
Recipe 5: Sour corn pancakes
You can make very tasty pancakes with sour milk and cornmeal.
Ingredients Required:
- Sour milk 1 cup
- Egg 2 pieces
- Wheat flour 1 cup
- Cornmeal 1 cup
- Pancake treated water 1 cup
- 1/2 teaspoon dough baking powder
- Salt
- Sugar
- Vanilla
- Vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Beat the eggs with the dry ingredients. Add sour milk to them, sprinkle a little wheat flour, stirring constantly.
- Heat a little mineral water and pour corn flour into it for 5 minutes to swell.
- Add the corn mixture to the dough, and then mix everything well to get a uniform consistency.
Before frying pancakes, let the dough stand for at least an hour, then add vegetable oil there.
Fry sour corn pancakes one by one - one and a half minutes on medium heat.
Sour pancakes - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- If you “overdo it” with flour, you will get pancakes instead of pancakes.
- If you want to make sour pancakes lush, then use hydrated soda. It is not necessary to add soda to thin pancakes.
- How to turn sour pancakes correctly during frying? Use thin wooden or silicone spatulas. It is necessary to turn the pancake when it ceases to shine with a wet color and holes appear on its surface.
- It is likely that the first pancake will stick to the pan or burn it. Do not worry and do not throw the process, remember that the first pancake as a rule, does not work for anyone.
- Sour pancakes are very tasty, if you add grated cheese to them during the frying process. As soon as you turned the pancake in the pan on the second side, and sprinkled with grated cheese, cover with a lid for half a minute.
- Add candied fruits and raisins to the dough, sour pancakes will turn out with an interesting taste.
