Lush pancakes - recipes and ideas

Lush, delicate, tastye pancakes - a favorite treat children and adults. Traditionally, they are cooked for breakfast, when the whole family gathers at the table to start their day. Each housewife has her own branded, proven recipes of pancakes, inherited from mothers or grandmothers. Prepare sweet, sour, flour or vegetable. There are so many options that you can please your loved ones every day with new original tastes.

Shrovetide week is an excellent occasion to bake pancakes with a new recipe, experimenting with the test and additives. Compared to pancakes, fritters are much easier and faster, thanks to which you can always feed the unexpectedly unexpected guests.

Most often hot pancakes are served as a dessert, complementing them with a delicious sauce: fresh sour cream, condensed milk, melted chocolate, syrup or honey. As a snack, these lozenges are also good if they are with garlic or tomato sauce, pâté or cheese.

Grandmother's pancakes with kefir

The most usual pancakes on yogurt are exactly those that grandmothers prepared for many, always accompanying their specialty dish with honey, jam, fatty sour cream. To repeat this recipe is not so difficult.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2.5 cups.
• Kefir - 0,5 liters.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp.
  
  
  
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.l.
• Salt - 1 tsp.
• Oil( for frying).

Preparation:

1. Vigorously stir the egg in a deep dish with a whisk.
2. Pour the same yogurt there, without stopping stirring.
3. Add sugar, salt, flour with baking powder, mix using a mixer.
4. Pancake dough should be as thick as sour cream.
5. Warm up the oil in a frying pan, reduce heat, spread the dough with a spoon, fry it on each side until it is ready.

Finished pancakes should be put on a napkin, so that excess oil is covered. They need to be hot, because in a few hours they will become tougher. By the way, instead of kefir you can use sour milk( curdled milk), fermented milk or yogurt.

Pancakes smashed

Pancakes on sour cream go out very tasty and delicate. Unlike kefir, sour cream gives the dish an airiness, friability, and fresh products remain much longer.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2 cups.
• Sour cream - 1 glass.
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp.l.
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.l.
• Baking Powder - 0.5 tsp.
• Salt.
• Sunflower-seed oil.

Preparation:

1. With sugar grind the egg yolks, salt, mix with butter, softened at room temperature( do not melt).
2. In a deep dish to lay sour cream, pour the egg mixture to it, mix it well with a mixer.
3. There also add flour with baking powder, mix with a mixer at a slow speed.
4. To the dough, continue stirring, gently pour the egg whites. Leave it for 10 minutes.
5. Fry in a lot of well-heated oil in the usual way.

The peculiarity of such fritters is that they can be added to the ingredients, and even necessary, with sweet products: berries, jam( especially black currant), dried fruit, which are put directly into the dough. Serve this delicious treat ideally with whipped cream, condensed milk or caramel.

Tip! Before frying pancakes, take care of a good frying pan. The ideal option - cast iron with a thick bottom, on it the dough is evenly fried, forming a crispy crust. Pans with Teflon coating are also good, but sometimes you need to reduce the heat, and cover them with a lid, so that the fritters are well fried and not burned.

Preparation of pancakes on sour cream - video

Pancakes on milk with dried fruits

Many guess what to add to the fritters, to make it delicious, but unusual. The answer is simple: dried fruits - cherries, raisins, prunes, dried apricots. You do not need to soak berries before mixing with the dough, they will soften sufficiently during cooking.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 1.5 cups.
• Milk - 100-150 ml.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp.
• Sugar, salt if desired.
• Oil for frying. Dried cherries or dried apricots.

Preparation:

1. In a deep dish, mix an equal amount of milk with warm water.
2. There also sift flour mixed with baking powder, sugar, salt, add eggs, knead all with a mixer until uniform.
3. Rinse cherries or dried apricots, dry with a towel, cut with a knife into pieces of suitable size.
4. Pour the dried fruits into the dough, stirring.
5. Fry in the usual way.

Cheese fritters on milk

Delicious, though not dessert, pancakes with cheese will perfectly suit as a satisfying original snack. They are served by hot, polished melted butter.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2 cups.
• Milk - 1,5 glasses.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Cheese - 250 grams.
• Butter - 50 grams.
• Vegetable oil.
• Salt.

Preparation:

1. In a deep bowl, pour the egg yolks and grind them with salt.
2. Pour milk into the mixture, sift the flour, stir actively, trying not to leave lumps.
3. Mix the whites with a mixer, gently pour them into the dough, stirring constantly. The consistency should be rather thick.
4. Cheese cut into thin slices.
5. Warm the oil in a frying pan and lay the dough with a tablespoon, place a piece of cheese on top of each pancake.
6. Fry on both sides.
7. Finished pancakes to pour melted butter.

This sauce is suitable for sauce based on sour cream, which adds mashed garlic and chopped herbs.

Pancakes in American style

Pancakes eat not only from us. They are especially loved in the West, in particular in the USA and Canada, where so-called punkakes( thick small pancakes) are an integral part of the traditional hearty breakfast. Usually they are served, stacked and poured with sweet syrup. The special feature of pancakes is that they fry them in a dry pan, and pour oil directly into the dough.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 1 glass.
• Milk - 1 glass.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.l.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp.
• Disintegrator 0.5 tsp.
• Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp.l.

Preparation:

1. In a deep bowl of , beat the eggs, ground with sugar, with a mixer.
2. Gently pour milk to the mixture, add butter, baking powder, salt, stirring continuously.
3. Spoon the flour by whisking the dough with a whisk or a mixer until it becomes a consistency to resemble thick sour cream.
4. Roll out the frying pan, pour the right amount of dough onto it, lower the heat.
5. When the surface starts bubbling, turn it over to the other side.
6. Finished punkeys put in a slide, pour with syrup, melted chocolate or honey.

By the way, you can make American fritters on water or kefir, in the second case they will turn out more magnificent. Add cocoa powder, cinnamon or chocolate crumb to the finished dough to improve taste.

Yeast fritters

To make the pancakes lush, the yeast is best added to the dough. The latter can be either fresh or dry, for the most part this only affects the cooking time. But many cooks argue that the correct dough for pancakes is definitely worth kneading on the freshest yeast.

In any case, before making a dough for pancakes, yeast should be prepared: pour them with warm water or milk with the addition of sugar, leave in the heat for 10( for dry) or 30( for fresh) minutes.

Only fresh, fermented yeast is added to the dough, which is what guarantees the puffiness of the pancakes.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 1.5 cups.
• Milk - 1 glass. Yeast fresh - 25 grams.
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.l.
• Salt.
• Oil.

Preparation:

1. Prepare yeast with , chopping them with a knife, mixing with sugar, a spoon of flour and a little warm milk. Put in the heat.
2. In a deep dish to sift the flour, pour in warm milk, add sugar, salt, stir.
3. In the dough with constant stirring, enter yeast and egg yolk, knead( preferably with a mixer), sprinkle with flour and cover with a towel, put into heat for half an hour.
4. In the risen dough, pour egg whites, beaten to a strong foam, mix, fry in a pan in a lot of oil.

By the way, very tasty and magnificent pancakes are obtained from yeast dough on kefir. They are best done with dry yeast, which is stirred in warm water, aged, and then poured into warmed kefir. In other respects the recipe is the same.

Simple yeast pancakes on water, which you can eat while fasting or follow a strict vegetarian diet, are no less tasty. Among the ingredients there are no eggs, but only flour, water, yeast, sugar, salt.

Recipe for yeast pancakes on milk and water - video

Pancakes from zucchini

If traditional pancakes made of dough do not seem to be anything original, then it can be supplemented with grated vegetables: potatoes, pumpkin or zucchini. The latter are very popular for their neutral and delicate taste.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2 cups.
• Milk - 2 cups.
• Courgette - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Dry yeast - 1 pack.
• Salt.
• Oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Yeast diluted in warm milk, leave for 10 minutes.
2. Peeled courgette grate on a large grater, lightly wring out the pulp to remove excess juice.
3. Sift flour, pour the yeast into it and, mixing, leave for 15-30 minutes to rise.
4. In the risen dough add eggs, salt, pulp of zucchini. All carefully knead.
5. Form a spoonful of fritters, fry them in hot oil on both sides.

Zucchini pancakes are best served with sauces based on sour cream. To make a dish a real find for gourmet will help the mushroom sauce Bechamel. It is prepared from fried champignons, which are poured with sour cream and fried in butter butter.

Squash is not the only thing that you can make vegetable fritters. Familiar to all Belarusian delicacy - draniki - is prepared on the same principle.

Potatoes grate, squeeze and add to the yeast dough for pancakes. The recipe is distinguished by a smaller amount of flour( 100 grams per 0.5 kg of potatoes) and the addition of 1 egg instead of two.

Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin pancakes are the same as zucchini, only sweet. Serve them best with sour cream with sugar, honey or condensed milk.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2 cups.
• Milk - 2 cups.
• Pumpkin - 300 grams of pulp.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Dry yeast - 1 pack.
• Sugar to taste. Cream butter for frying.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the yeast dough, as for zucchini pancakes, only with the addition of sugar.
2. Pumpkin flesh rub on medium or large grater and, without pressing, add to the dough.
3. Fry in melted butter until ready.

Pancakes with apples

The recipe for pancakes with apples will be enjoyed by all sweeties, especially children. This dish is a full-fledged dessert that exudes to the whole house the aroma of baked apples and cinnamon.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 5 tbsp.l. Kefir or yogurt - 0,5 liters.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.l.
• Salt and sugar to taste.
• Margarine for frying.
• Sugar powder - 2-3 tbsp.l.
• Sweet apples - 5 pcs.

Preparation:

1. Beat the eggs together with sugar.
2. In a deep cup, pour kefir, add salt, beaten eggs, butter and sifted flour, knead a thick dough.
3. Peel apples from the core and peel, cut into thin slices.
4. Melt margarine in a frying pan, pour a tablespoon of dough and, while still liquid, lay a few apple slices on top of each pancake.
5. Flip over very gently and fry from the reverse side until browning.
6. Finished pancakes to put on a flat plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Tip! A well-warmed margarine will provide a ruddy, crispy crust. Check if it has reached the right temperature, just: just drop a wooden spatula into it and wait for bubbles to appear next to it.

Fancy fritters with apples on kefir - video

Banana fritters with oatmeal

Not only delicious, but also extremely useful due to the high fiber content, oat pancakes with a banana will appeal to fans of unusual desserts. In addition, they are prepared without sugar, and sweet taste provides a banana pulp. Such pancakes can quite afford to those who follow the figure.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 2 tbsp.l.
• Hercules - 150 grams.
• Kefir - 100 grams.
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Bananas - 3 pcs.
• Baking Powder - 1,5 tsp.
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp.l.
• Cinnamon - 1 tsp.
• Salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. In a glass of boiling water, pour the oats and cook for no longer than 5 minutes, after removing from the plate, pour olive oil, mix.
2. Peel the cleaned bananas in a puree with a blender.
3. Pour kefir into the banana puree, stirring to homogeneity.
4. In the mixture put the boiled oatmeal, add the egg, knead again.
5. In the same bowl, sift the flour, add baking powder, salt, cinnamon, knead the dough.
6. Put the dough on the dry frying pan, fry for 2 minutes on one side, turn over and fry another minute for a little heat.

Orange fritters

Fans of unusual combinations simply have to cook delicious pancakes with oranges. Serve them best with honey, and for originality sprinkle with walnuts.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 300 grams.
• Milk - 150 ml.
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 1-2 tbsp.l.
• Oranges - 2 pcs.
• Baking Powder - 0.5 tsp.
• Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

1. From the oranges squeeze the juice, mix it with milk.
2. In a deep dish, pour the mixture, add egg, sugar, baking powder, sifted flour. Knead with a mixer on medium mode.
3. The remaining pulp of oranges add to the dough, once again mixing.
4. Fry pieces of dough in hot oil in the usual way until golden brown.
5. Finished pancakes to put on a paper towel to stack excess fat. Serve warm.

Pancakes stuffed with

Do not know how to cook delicious and unusual stuffed pancakes? The method is very simple:

1. Any suitable dough for pancakes should be poured into a frying pan with
2. oil. Then quickly put a teaspoon of the filling into the center: jam, jam, boiled condensed milk, chocolate paste or fruit mixture.
3. After this, gently pour a spoonful of dough on top and continue cooking in the standard way, but after reducing the fire and increasing the frying time for 2-3 minutes for each side.

Make the right dough for pancakes is not as difficult as it may seem, the main thing is not to be afraid to experiment. It is not necessary to be limited to wheat flour, it can be replaced or mixed with oatmeal, rye or corn. Fillings and supplements will help even inexperienced housewives create a surprisingly tasty dish that homemade and guests will demand again and again.

There is nothing difficult to prepare pancakes, especially if you use already proven recipes. And for Pancake week, it is worthwhile to involve in this process children who, for certain, will be interested in cooking pancakes, and then with pleasure enjoying the fruits of their labor under the approving glances of adults.

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