sauce on Pancake week put pancakes, which are the epitome of generous warm sun, a good harvest and happy marriages. Pancakes are usually watered with melted butter, it symbolizes sacrifices, which in the old days were brought to stone idols. Each hostess has his own, corporate recipe, inherited from his mother or grandmother, whether delicate delicate pancakes or thick pancakes with baking. And you can surprise your family and cook American pancakes pancakes, recently they have become very popular in Russia.
What is punkkeys?
In English, the word "pankake" means "cake in a frying pan".These are thick thick pancakes, extraordinarily nourishing and tasty. Outwardly they resemble regular pancakes, only larger in size, lean, lighter and airy. It is believed that the recipe for this dessert was invented in Scotland, where he safely migrated first to America and Canada, and then gained fame throughout the world.
In America, pancakes are very popular, this dish is usually cooked for breakfast. Serve them with syrup, jam, honey, fruits and other sweets. There are many recipes for cooking pancakes: on milk, kefir, whey, with oat flour, with or without eggs, with bananas, blueberries, cottage cheese, chocolate. It is not difficult to cook them, this process takes no more than 20 minutes, no special exotic ingredients are required, unless, of course, you plan to serve them with maple syrup.
Fry without adding oil in a small frying pan with non-stick coating( this is a distinctive feature of cooking pancakes), which will fit just one pancake with a diameter of 10-14 centimeters. Or several at once. The thickness of pancakes should be at least 0.5 centimeters. Sometimes yoghurt is added to the dough to achieve a splendor.
The dough is poured into the center of the frying pan, so that the middle of the punkake is convex. Americans use for cooking special crepes or double-sided pans, consisting of folding halves. In such an original frying pan, pancakes are fried very quickly, they do not need to be turned over.
To refuse this yummy is simply impossible, because American pancakes simply melt in the mouth, especially they are loved by young children. And if the pancakes are neatly put on the bottom of the mold, put the cottage cheese rubbed with sugar on top and send it to the oven for 15 minutes, then you will get a delicious pancake cottage cheese cake that will decorate the festive table at the Shrovetide week.
Classic recipe
Today punkey can cook any mistress, on the Internet it's easy to find a lot of interesting, original recipes. With what only do not bake pancakes, but the traditional way - on milk.
Ingredients:
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 3 tbsp.l.without a hill;
- salt - on the eye;
Eggs 
Sugar 
Milk
- milk - half liter;
- wheat flour - 2 cups;
- soda with vinegar - 1 tsp;
- vegetable oil - a quarter of a glass;
- vanilla powder.
Preparation:
- Whisk the whites with whisk, mix the yolks with the sugar.
- Yolks pour cold milk, mix thoroughly. If you use warm milk, then pancakes are not obtained by such air.
- Add flour, previously sieved, mix with a blender so that the mass is absolutely homogeneous, without lumps.
- Pour vanillin( no more than 1 gram), otherwise the dough will get a bitter taste.
- Pour in the sunflower oil. If you replace it with ghee, it will turn out even tastier. Americans often use cream, it gives the dessert such a tender taste and splendor.
- Add soda, slaked in vinegar, and salt.
- Lastly, gently mix the proteins and leave the dough for 10 minutes to make it properly disperse.
- Fry over medium heat. The bottom of the frying pan is oiled only once, no more pouring, since it is already added to the dough. Do not fry too much American pancakes, they should not have a hard dry crust. The frying pan can not be covered.
Pancakes on milk - video
Pancakes on kefir
Ingredients:
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- kefir - 1 glass;
- flour - 1 glass;
- baking powder - 20 g;
Kefir 
Baking powder 
Flour
- granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons;
- salt - to taste;
- vanillin - 1 packet;
- any oil that is in the house - 2 tablespoons.
Preparation: 
- Rinse sugar with yolks, whisk together until a thick foam is obtained.
- All the dry components of the recipe pour into kefir, stir so that there are no lumps, add oil. The dough should be very thick. It is necessary to let him stand in a warm place to "get it"( at least 10 minutes).
- Fry over moderate heat. At the center of the frying pan, pour out the dough ladle or a few tablespoons of the mixture and count to 30, after that, when the dough begins to get covered with bubbles, turn over to the other side and again count to 30.
- Beautiful ruddy pancakes on kefir( they should be 12-15 pieces)stack on top of each other with a "turret".
Pancakes with banana
Ingredients: 
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- flour - 250 g;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 30 g;
- salt - at your discretion;
- milk - 250 g;
- vegetable or ghee - 100 g;
- bananas - 2-4 pieces.
Preparation:
- Yolks fill with sugar and grind. Whip the whites with salt.
- Mix the yolks with flour, baking powder, butter and milk, stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps. You should get a thick smooth dough.
- Bananas kneaded with a fork or blender, to make a puree, add to the dough.
- Finally, protein foam is introduced.
- Fry pancake pancakes with a banana in a moderately hot frying pan on both sides until golden brown.
Pancakes without eggs
Ingredients:
- milk - 2 cups;
- flour - 2 cups;
- starch - 3 tablespoons;
Starch 
Soda with vinegar 
Salt
- vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
- soda in vinegar - a teaspoon;
- salt - pinch;
- sugar - 100 g.
Preparation:
- Dry the products thoroughly.
- Pour in milk, mix until smooth.
- Add soda, slaked with vinegar, and butter.
- If you put cocoa in the dough( 2-3 tablespoons), then the pancakes will acquire a delicious chocolate taste. Served with melted chocolate.
With oatmeal
Ingredients:
- oatmeal - 250 g;
- milk - 250 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
Cinnamon 
Apple 
Oat groats
- cinnamon - a teaspoon;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- apple - 1 piece.
Preparation: 
- Peel the apple, cut, blend with a blender.
- Pound the oatmeal in a blender or an ordinary coffee grinder, pour into apple puree.
- Yolks grind with sugar, whisk the beaters with a mixer until the peaks.
- Add salt, sugar, soda and vinegar to the dough.
- Add yolks and, last but not least, proteins.
- When preparing this dessert you need to be careful, as pancakes can burn because of the composition. Turn them faster than regular punk cars.
American flavored Earl Gray
Ingredients: 
- Earl Gray tea - 1-2 bags;
- milk - 250 g;
- flour - 250 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sugar, salt - to taste;
- soda with vinegar - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation:
- Milk with a tea bag boil, cool. Instead of this type of tea, you can take another grade that is available, as well as coffee or cocoa. The original taste is obtained if you use mint instead of tea.
- Mix all dry ingredients( flour, salt, sugar).
- Drive the egg.
- Pour the mixture with milk. Before this, how should I squeeze out a tea bag.
- Fry in the usual way.
With cottage cheese and cranberry sauce
Ingredients:
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- flour - 230 g;
- sugar - 3 tablespoons;
- salt - to taste;
- sachet of vanillin;
Cranberry 
Butter 
Curd soft
- soft curd - 400 g;
- oil( vegetable, cream, melted) - 3 tablespoons;
- baking powder - 20-30 g;
- cranberry - half a kilogram;
- corn starch - 30 g.
Preparation:
- Cottage cheese, yolks, sugar, vanilla, stir until salt is blended. Fill with cold milk and butter.
- Add the baking powder and flour, carefully knead and leave to swell for 20 minutes.
- While the dough swells, you need to make the sauce. Cranberries squeeze through the cheesecloth, into the juice obtained, fill the sugar( to taste).Bring the mixture to a boil.
- Dissolve starch with cold water and pour into a boiling mixture in a thin trickle.
- Add the protein in the dough, stir and proceed with the frying.
- Punkake in the hill and pour cranberry sauce.
As you can see, there is nothing difficult to prepare American punk-balls. They fry quickly, and with what to feed them, depends on the imagination and ingenuity of the hostess.
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