Recipes of delicious potato pancakes

The main dish for the Shrovetide week is the pancakes, which are the symbol of this holiday. Mistresses demonstrate imagination and ingenuity, striving to surprise loved ones with culinary delights. There are no recipes for pancakes: they are delicate openwork pancakes, and thick as pancakes, with baking or filling - salty or sweet.

What else, apart from hearty aromatic and ruddy roundworms can be served on the festive table for a change? Recently, for example, American punk-balls have become very popular, but our potato pancakes are no worse.

Many housewives believe that potato pancakes are ordinary pancakes, one of the most popular dishes of Belarusian cuisine. Not exactly, it can be potato pancakes, and pancakes, and pancakes stuffed with different fillings( meat, cheese or ham), and even an exquisite potato dessert with apples or pears.

Prepare potato pancakes, this tasty, delicious dish is not difficult at all, and no special ingredients are required, and flour, eggs and butter are found in every home.

Secrets of cooking

Pancakes made from potatoes, whether it's ordinary pancakes or stuffed thick pancakes, it's very easy to cook. However, there are some nuances that make the dish simply delicious.

What potatoes should be:

1. It is better to choose a variety with a high content of starch. Belarusian potatoes are just like that.
2. Potatoes should be of medium size, strong, mature, with rough skin and a yellowish middle. This will not only improve the taste, but also help keep the shape of pancakes or fritters.
3. Young potatoes do not make potatoes, as it contains little starch.

How to cook delicious fritters from potatoes:

1. Potatoes are ground only on a grater. To make it not darkened, you need to rub it in turn with the onion. You can skip the tubers through a meat grinder, but experienced housewives assure that this is not the best way to affect the taste of the dish.
2. You can add a couple of spoons of the finished potato starch to the finished mass( if the starch is not enough).
3. The flour must be sifted through a sieve, so pancakes or fritters will be more magnificent. If the dough turned liquid, add not flour, but dry starch, but no more than 2 spoons, otherwise the dough will be rubbery.
4. Dare to use spices, do not limit yourself to black or red pepper. Add dried herbs, this will give the dish a unique taste.
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5. Fry potato pancakes in a hot skillet with non-stick coating, but you can use cast iron, it's just as good.
6. Oil should not cover the pancakes completely, otherwise they will be too greasy. Crispy pancakes will be obtained if the oil covers them by half.
7. Do not cover the frying pan.
8. Fried pancakes to get wet with a napkin to remove excess fat.

By the way, some hostesses add vitamin C to the potato mass - a carefully ground half of the tablet. So fritters are obtained in a beautiful white color.

Drills

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kilogram;
• flour - 2 tablespoons;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• starch - it is not necessary to use it, it is necessary, if only the dough is liquid;
• sour cream or milk - 2 tablespoons;
• salt, pepper and seasonings to taste;
• frying oil.

Preparation:

1. Grate potato mixed with onions.
2. Squeeze out the liquid. Beat eggs with salt and pepper.
3. Add milk or sour cream to the dough( you can not add, this ingredient is added as desired).

Appetizing crispy pancakes to serve with sour cream or traditional Belarusian sauce, called matanka. It is prepared as follows:

1. Smoked ribs, brisket, any sausage available, finely chopped, fried with onions and mushrooms.
2. In a separate container, dilute the flour with water, pour a mixture of smoked meat.
3. Pryout all over low heat to make the sauce thicken.

Pancakes from potatoes

Ingredients:

• potatoes - half a kilogram;
• flour - 2 cups;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
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• sugar - 1 tablespoons;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• milk - 750 ml;
• onion - 2 pieces;
• salt, pepper, seasoning - to taste;
• soda, slaked in vinegar.

Preparation:

1. Wash the potatoes, peel, peel the tubers on a fine grater, squeeze off excess liquid.
2. Sifted flour, eggs, warm milk, sugar, salt, seasonings and soda mix in a homogeneous mass, so that there are no lumps. Finely chop the onion.
3. Add onion and potato paste in dough, knead.
4. Fry over medium heat until a ruddy golden-brown crust is formed, delicious large fritters.
5. On the table serve with sour cream or mushroom sauce.

Stuffed with fish and mushrooms

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kilogram;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• flour - 2 cups;
  Dried mushrooms Fish fillet
  
  
• salt, pepper, condiments, greens to taste;
• roasting oil;Fish fillet
• - 300 grams;Dried mushrooms
• - 2 tablespoons;
• onion - 1 piece.

Preparation:

1. Grate the raw potatoes on a small grater, add eggs, flour, salt and seasonings.
2. Fish to pass through a meat grinder.
3. Mushrooms and 1 egg boil.
4. Onion finely chopped and fried, add mushrooms, boiled egg, salt, pepper.
5. Put fritters on a hot frying pan, top with fish filling, top with potato dough.
6. Gently fry from both sides until a crust is formed.
7. Finished pancakes to put in the form, pour creamy melted butter and put in the oven for 5 minutes.

With minced

Ingredients:

• potato dough is prepared, as in the previous recipe;
• pork - 500 grams;
• onion - 2 pieces;
• fat or fat - 100 grams;
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• salt, pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Make the potato dough.
2. Scroll the pork through a meat grinder and fry along with the onion.
3. Put the dough on a frying pan, top - stuffing, cover the stuffing with potato paste.
4. Separately fry the fat or fat.
5. Pancakes with minced meat on a baking sheet, add oil, put the fat and send it for 10 minutes in the oven.

With mushrooms

Ingredients:

• potato paste is prepared in the same way as indicated in the two previous recipes;Dried mushrooms
• - 100 g;
• sour cream, butter - 5 tablespoons each;
• mushroom broth - 1 glass;
  

  Mushroom broth

• salt, pepper - to taste;
• fat, pork fat - 100 grams;
• onion - 3 pieces.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the potato paste.
2. Mushrooms boil for an hour in salted water.
3. Fry the bacon, add finely chopped onions and boiled mushrooms, add the mushroom broth - the mince will be more juicy.
4. Make closed potato pancakes, fry in oil.
5. Finished potato pancakes with mushrooms put in pots, pour oil and sour cream and bake in the oven.

Stuffed with sausage

Tastier with smoked sausage, but if it is not, then you can replace it with boiled sausage.

Ingredients:

• potato paste;
• sausage smoked - 300 grams;
• onion - 2 pieces;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Preparation:

1. Cut with sausage sausage, fry with onion.
2. Lay the layers of potato, sausage filling and top with a dough.
3. Serve with sour cream and creamy melted butter.

Very tasty potato pancakes - video

With cheese

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kilogram;
• flour - 1 cup;
• eggs - 1 piece
• bulb - 1 piece;
• hard cheese - 200 grams.

Preparation:

1. Grate potatoes with onion on grater, add flour, salt, seasonings.
2. Cheese grate, mix with potato paste.
3. Fry fritters with cheese on a hot frying pan.
   
   
   

Chilled potato fritters

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 kilogram;
• milk - 1 cup;
• flour - half cup;
• egg - 1 piece;
• vegetable oil - for cooking;
• salt, condiments - at your discretion;
• soda - a quarter teaspoon.

Preparation:

1. Potato tubers to grate, squeeze out the liquid.
2. Pour the potato mass with hot milk.
3. Add an egg, seasonings, salt, soda.
4. Fry in the usual way.

American fritters( hashbraun)

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 6 pieces;
• salt, condiments to taste;
• oil for roasting.

Preparation:

1. Coarse the potatoes.
2. Boil water and put the rubbed mass in it. Cook for 5 minutes.
3. Cook the boiled potatoes into a colander, drain the water. You do not need to rinse.
4. Put the potatoes on a towel or gauze, hold for 15 minutes.
5. Mix the potatoes with salt and seasonings and fry like regular fritters, gently turning them over so they do not fall apart. Pancakes should be lush, soft inside and appetizing fried outside.

Pancakes with minced meat - video recipe

Curd and potato pancakes

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 6 large tubers;
• curd - 400 grams;
• egg - 1 piece;
• sour cream - 100 grams;
• butter - 2 tbsp.l.;
• salt;
• grease or oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Grate the potatoes.
2. Cottage cheese rub and wring out excess liquid.
3. Mix cottage cheese and grated potatoes, add salt and egg.
4. Fry, serve with butter or curd sauce( cottage cheese, sour cream, salt).

Choose any recipe for potato pancakes, experiment and improve your culinary talents!

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