Pancakes - potato pancakes, which are very popular in Eastern European countries. It is believed that the birthplace of the dish is Belarus.
It is there that you can find hundreds of recipes for potato fritters.
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Belarusian pancakes - the general principles of cooking
Potatoes for the dish is peeled, rubbed. Usually use a fine grater. But for taste and grip, the masses sometimes turn some of the tubers into large chips. Starch from potatoes binds a lot, but sometimes it is not enough. Therefore, in many recipes there are chicken eggs.
What else is put into the potato mass:
• flour;
• spices;
• garlic, onion, carrot;
• greenery.
The resulting dough is gathered with a large spoon, spread on a frying pan with hot oil, and fried until golden brown. Willingness is determined by the edges of the pellets. As soon as they turn brown, it's time to turn the pancake up or take it off.
Very popular in Belarus sorcerers - pancakes with a filling. Potato pancakes of this type are cooked with meat, mushroom, vegetable minced meat. The dish is also fried in a pan, the formation of the product occurs during the process immediately on a hot surface. Below there are recipes of Belarusian sorcerers with minced meat and mushroom.
Belarusian pancakes without eggs
Recipe for simple Belarusian pancakes. For them, only vegetables are used. The dish is lean, suitable for a vegetarian diet. So that the products do not disintegrate during frying, the tubers are rubbed in different ways.
Ingredients
• 8 potatoes;
• onion;
• salt pepper;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• oil for frying.
Cooking
1. Clean the potatoes. We rub half large. The second part is rubbed on the smallest grater. This is to not add eggs.
2. Chop the onion finely, add to the potatoes.
3. Fill the recipe flour, put the pepper and salt, to taste you can add a little garlic.
4. Stir the potato dough.
5. Heat the oil. 6. Fry draniki. Spread thin pancakes with a spoon, cook until golden brown, turn over and fry the second side.
Belarusian pancakes with eggs and carrots
A more familiar version of the Belarusian pancakes. An egg is used to bind the mass, a carrot is added for taste and beautiful color.
Ingredients
• 6 potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• 2-3 tablespoons of flour;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Vegetables need to be peeled.
2. Rub the potatoes and carrots finely. Add chopped onion.
3. We break egg in dough, we pour flour and spices. Look at the thickness. If the potatoes are juicy and the mass is thin, you can pour some more flour.
4. Put the pancakes on the heated pan with oil, fry until done.
Belarusian pancakes with minced meat (sorcerers)
The meat version of the dish to which you can add any stuffing: beef, pork, chicken. Tasty, if the product with the addition of fat. Stuffing is in this dish filling.
Ingredients
• 7 potatoes;
• 150 g minced meat;
• spices;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 small onion;
• butter;
• 2-3 tablespoons of flour.
Cooking
1. Take a bowl, put in the meat or chicken mince, add a pinch of salt, various spices to your taste.
2. Chop the onion finely, add to the mince. Stir.
3. Grate the potatoes finely, add 0.3 tsp. To it. salt, break eggs, pour flour. Stir the dough thoroughly with a spoon until smooth.
4. Heat the oil in a skillet with a thick bottom. Put a moderate fire, otherwise the pancakes will not be baked.
5. Spread a spoonful of thin lozenges from potatoes.
6. Immediately put on them a little stuffing from ground beef.
7. Top with a filling potato mash, the stuffing should not peep.
8. As soon as the sorcerers are reddened, they need to be turned over to the other side and brought to full readiness. If in doubt about baking, cover the pan with a lid for a few minutes.
Belarusian pancakes with mushrooms
Another version of pancakes stuffed. Mushrooms are used for mince. The recipe indicates the amount of boiled product. Ingredients
• 1.2 kg of potatoes;
• 180 g boiled mushrooms;
• 2 onions;
• spices;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• 3-4 tablespoons of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 ml of oil.
Cooking
1. Immediately cook the filling. To do this, chopped onions lightly fry in a skillet, add chopped mushrooms. Cook until complete evaporation of water. Then add the spices, browse for a moment on a high heat, and melt the mince to cool.
2. Peel the tubers. Rub on the smallest grater.
3. Add spices, sour cream and flour to potatoes, break eggs. Stir. Flour is better not to add all at once, look at the consistency. You may have to sprinkle as you make potatoes juice.
4. Put pancakes in hot oil, then mushroom stuffing and again cover with potato dough.
5. Fry mushroom sorcerers to a beautiful crust and potato readiness. Serve with sour cream.
Belarusian pancakes with soda and sour cream
The recipe for delicious pancakes, which are very similar to pancakes. Sour cream goes to the dough, more flour is added. Many people like this particular dish option, since it can be used not only fresh, it tolerates warming well.
Ingredients
• 5 potatoes;
• 50 g sour cream;
• 0.3 tsp. soda;
• 5 tablespoons of flour;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 2 eggs;
• greens, spices.
Cooking
1. Beat the cream with soda with a fork, let the powder react. Add eggs and salt, stir.
2. Grate the peeled potatoes very finely, combine with the main mass.
3. Add flour, squeeze a clove of garlic, pepper, stir.
4. Put pancakes in hot oil, cook pancakes on one side to a beautiful crust.
5. Turn over, cover, bake potato dish until done.
6. Served such pancakes just with sour cream, you can add greens and fresh garlic, you get a fragrant sauce.
Belarusian pancakes with cheese and garlic
For this potato dish, you need some hard cheese. The product will give the pancakes not only a special taste, but also a very beautiful crust. Ingredients
• 8 potatoes;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 PC. Luke;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• oil, spices.
Cooking
1. Peel the potatoes, the same with the onion head.
2. Grind grated vegetables. You can skip the tubers and onions through a meat grinder.
3. Break eggs, put chopped garlic, sprinkle salt, pepper. Stir the mass.
4. Add finely grated cheese. Do not fill the whole product at once, put it gradually so that it does not crumple.
5. Fry ordinary pancakes in oil. Serve rosy potato pancakes with sour cream.
Belarusian pancakes with lard
To prepare such pancakes, you can take salted or smoked lard. But if a fresh piece is in the freezer, you can use it. Similarly, meat is added to the dough, it turns out very tasty.
Ingredients
• 7 potatoes;
• 120 grams of fat;
• 1 onion;
• 4 tablespoons flour;
• 1 egg;
• 0.5 tsp. salts;
• 0.2 tsp. pepper;
• oil for frying.
Cooking
1. Onion and bacon twist through the meat grinder. Can be chopped in a combine. The mass should turn out fine. To taste, you can immediately add garlic.
2. Rub the peeled tubers, add to the fat with onions.
3. Pepper, salt, stir well.
4. Add an egg to the mass, add flour, stir the potato dough.
5. Heat the oil in the pan. Pour a layer of about three millimeters.
6. Spread thin pancakes on a hot surface, flatten pancakes with a spoon so that the thickness is the same.
7. Roast from two sides until ready, do not need to cover the pan.
Belarusian pancakes in the oven
An option for those who can not eat a fried dish or just do not want to stand at the stove. Baked potato pancakes can be made according to any recipe, below is the classic Belarusian version.
Ingredients
• 700 g of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 1 egg;
• 0.5 tsp. spice mixtures;
• 1.5 spoons of butter.
Cooking
1. Onion is cut into small cubes or thin straws, thrown into a bowl. 2. Sprinkle spices onion. You can take a ready-made mixture for potatoes, remember slightly the vegetable with your hands, you can immediately salt it.
3. Peel the potatoes, rub, add to the onions.
4. Break one egg to them. Stir. If suddenly the potato will produce a lot of juice, then add to it a couple of tablespoons of flour, mix well.
5. Cover the baking tray with a silicone mat, parchment or foil. Be sure to lubricate with oil.
6. Lay out neat pellets, about half a centimeter thick.
7. Put in the oven. It should already be heated to 200 by this time.
8. Cook the pancakes to a ruddy color on top.
9. Remove the baking tray, turn the potato pancakes on the other side with a spatula. Brush on top of the remaining oil, redden.
Belarusian pancakes - useful tips and tricks
• Belarusian pancakes can be cooked not only with wheat flour. In the dough, you can add grinded oatmeal, corn, buckwheat. But especially lush products are obtained with swollen semolina.
• Dranki left? In the cold they are not very tasty. But you can always put potato pancakes in a greased form, pour sour cream, sprinkle with cheese and heat the oven. Tasty casseroles are obtained with the addition of tomatoes, sausages, cheese, meat products and cottage cheese.
• To keep the pancakes from falling apart during the cooking process, it is important to use potatoes that are high in starch. Young tubers are no good. If the potatoes are not starchy, then lay more eggs to hold the mass.
• Grate potatoes for pancakes better on a plastic grater. From metal chips quickly darker, finished products become bluish color.
