Potato pancakes, draniki or potato pancakes, are found in the national cuisines of European peoples. Fried potato pancakes are loved both in Latin America and in the Scandinavian countries. And in Belarus, potato pancakes with meat or sorcerers are the most beloved and revered dish.
This delicious page presents easy and simple recipes for potato pancakes. With minimal time and money, you can cook a quick, satisfying and very healthy dish to the delight of adults and children.
Classic potato pancake recipe
Novice housewives will find it useful to master this simple classic recipe for potato pancakes. A step-by-step cooking process and helpful tips from chefs will help you quickly organize a hearty breakfast or a light dinner.
Prepare the necessary ingredients:
- 6 potatoes;
- 1 egg;
- 2 large spoons of flour;
- 1 onion;
- salt pepper;
- 1 tablespoon sour cream (optional)
- vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking:
We clean the potatoes and onions, take out the grater or blender from the shelf.
We rub the potatoes on a fine or medium grater, or even better, pass them through a chopper together with onions! Draniki will bake faster and be more tender!
We get a tender, airy potato mass! If the potatoes were grated, then it is better to drain the resulting juice. To do this, the mass must be squeezed out and transferred to another bowl! Add egg and flour to potatoes with onions.
Separate the yolk and white. Immediately add the yolk to the mass, and beat the protein with salt until a stable foam, and then add to the potatoes. Salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.
A tablespoon of sour cream will add splendor, juiciness and a pleasant creamy note to potato pancakes.
Spoon the batter onto the heated skillet with oil. We are waiting for the rims to brown, and carefully turn the cakes over.
After frying, it is better to put the finished potato pancakes on a paper towel. So excess fat will leave the potato cakes and be absorbed into the paper. Crispy potato pancakes will definitely appeal to children, because they taste a bit like chips! Happy and delicious crunch!
Potato pancakes with cheese - a step by step recipe
In Belarus, potato pancakes are prepared with various fillings. For example, cakes with cheese and herbs are called pyzy. An easy recipe with step by step preparation will reveal the secret of this delicious dish.
Products:
- 6 potatoes;
- 1 carrot and 1 onion;
- 1 egg;
- 150-200 g of hard cheese;
- 2-3 large spoons of flour;
- dill, garlic clove;
- spices and vegetable oil.
The cooking process in several points:
- Peel potatoes, onions and carrots and pass through a meat grinder.
- Add egg and flour to minced vegetables.
- Season well with spices and mix everything thoroughly.
- Grate the cheese on the track, and finely chop the dill and garlic. Let's mix stuffing!
- We put a portion of potato dough on a preheated pan, a little cheese filling on top, and then again a little potato. Gently level and wait for the potato pancake to grab.
- Turn the cakes over several times and fry on both sides for a few minutes.
Pies are ready! They are best served hot with sour cream and fresh bread.
Recipe for potato pancakes with minced meat
Potato pancakes with minced meat come from Belarusian cuisine. The recipe is old, and hearty cakes with meat are called sorcerers in a different way. The cooking process is simple and is recommended to all lovers of tasty and juicy potato pancakes.
Cooking Ingredients:
- 1 kg of potatoes;
- 350 - 400 grams of minced pork;
- 1 small onion;
- 1 egg;
- 1 clove of garlic and any greens;
- spices, oil for frying.
Cooking:
Rub the peeled potatoes on a fine grater.
To prevent the potatoes from turning brown, add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to them.
- It is advisable to transfer the grated potatoes to a colander and remove excess juice. Salt, pepper and crack 1 egg into the mass. Generously season the minced meat with spices, garlic and mix with chopped onions.
- It's time to form lush potato pancakes with meat. To do this, lay out a thin layer of potatoes on your hand, followed by a layer of minced meat and again a layer of potato mass. We carefully pinch the edges. Put the blanks on a paper towel to absorb excess liquid.
- We spread the sorcerers on a hot frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry on both sides for 2-3 minutes until a firm golden crust. At the end of frying, it is advisable to hold the potato pancakes under the lid for a couple of minutes so that they are well fried.
Put the finished sorcerers on a paper towel and check one cutlet for readiness. The potato crust should be thin, and the meat filling should be juicy and fried. Bon appetit!
Cooking potato pancakes with mushrooms
In the next recipe, we will use healthy mushrooms as an appetizing filling. Potatoes in pancakes are ideally combined with onions and fried champignons. The cooking process is fast and the consumption of products is minimal!
Ingredients:
- 0.5 kg of potatoes;
- 250 grams of champignons;
- 2 onions;
- 1 egg;
- 2 - 3 tablespoons of flour;
- oil for frying;
Cooking:
- Mushrooms and onions cut into cubes and fry in vegetable oil. During this time, grate the potatoes on a medium grater. Squeeze out the excess liquid, salt, pepper and mix the potato mass with the egg and flour.
- Heat up a frying pan over medium heat. We spread a layer of potatoes, then a layer of mushrooms and again a layer of potato mass. As soon as the pancakes are browned around the edges, it's time to turn them over and fry on the other side.
Fragrant pancakes with mushrooms are ready! For a beautiful serving, you will need sour cream and chopped green onions. Hearty and delicious lunch!
How to cook potato pancakes without flour? Simply and easily!
For those who are on a diet, the following recipe for potato pancakes. There is no flour in the dough, and the pancakes are more tender and airy.
Dough Ingredients:
- 5 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 2 eggs;
- garlic and spices.
Cooking:
- In order for potato pancakes to stick together with the help of eggs and without flour, it is necessary to grate the potatoes on a coarse grater. It is better to rub into a colander so that the juice flows into the lower bowl, and semi-dry potato mass remains for the dough.
- The onion can also be grated or very finely chopped. Season the vegetable mixture well with spices and mix with beaten eggs.
The main secret of delicious potato pancakes is to cook them until the potatoes turn dark! Therefore, the cooking process should not be delayed!
- We heat the pan and spread the potato mass with a portioned spoon. Fry the tortillas on both sides until a firm brown crust.
Serve hot and enjoy the great taste of hearty potato pancakes!
The original recipe for potato pancakes with chicken breast is distinguished by the way it is cooked and served. It turns out a delicious uncovered cake with a hearty filling, which can even be prepared for a festive romantic dinner.
Prepare products:
- 4 potatoes;
- 250 grams of chicken breast;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 onion;
- 2 tablespoons of flour;
- 50 grams of cheese;
- spices and dill for sprinkling.
Cooking:
- To begin with, fry the onion until golden transparency. Next, prepare the breast cut into small pieces.
- We rub the potatoes on a coarse grater and squeeze the juice. We break eggs into potatoes, pour flour and generously season with spices.
- Thoroughly mix the potato dough and put a large round cake on a heated frying pan. Gently level and wait for the bottom to slightly stick.
- Flip the potato pancake. We spread the fried breasts, onions, grated cheese and a little dill on one half. Cover the layers with the second half of the cake and press lightly.
We fry potato pancakes with filling on both sides and put them on a large beautiful plate for serving. You can heartily feed and surprise the household with such a simple and unusually tasty dish!
I suggest you watch the video recipe for cooking potato pancakes according to the classic recipe
Bon appetit and see you for new recipes!
Draniki is a dish of Belarusian cuisine, it is pancakes made from grated raw potatoes. However, in other cuisines of the world there is a similar dish, only under different names: in Ukraine, potato pancakes are called potato pancakes, in the Czech Republic - bramboraks, in Poland - plyacks. For this reason, there are also many recipes for making potato pancakes. We will tell our readers how to make the right potato pancakes and give the best recipes, illustrating their photos.
How to make potato pancakes
At first glance, the technology for making potato pancakes is simple. This is true: an inexperienced hostess can also make them, but only if she knows a few important secrets. Otherwise, during the cooking process, she may have many questions. In order for the result to meet expectations, we will share the secrets of making potato pancakes.
- Draniki are made only from raw potatoes. It is better to give preference to Belarusian varieties, in which there is a lot of starch. However, such varieties can be found in Russia. If it seems to you that the starch in the potato is not enough, you can buy it and add a little. Literally half a teaspoon.
- To prepare classic Belarusian potato pancakes, potatoes are chopped, rubbing on a fine grater with holes that have sharp edges. It can be said that they tear potatoes on a grater - hence the name of the dish. Modern kitchen appliances make this process easier by using a food processor. Many housewives rub potatoes on a coarse grater, and as a result, pancakes, as can be seen in some of the photos below, also turn out to be appetizing. But still, if you want to cook real potato pancakes, as in Belarus, you need to use a fine grater.
- It may turn out that the grated potato mass turned out to be too liquid. In this case, it must be pressed.
- Some housewives try to thicken the potato mass by adding flour to it. This is the wrong choice, as the result is a hard pancake. If you want to get tender potato pancakes, you can thicken the “dough” only with starch.
- So that the pancakes do not darken, chopped onions are added to the potato mass.
- To spice up, many housewives add garlic and pancakes to potato pancakes, but you need very little of it - one clove per kilogram of potatoes. The garlic is crushed with a press and mixed with the vegetable mass.
- To give the pancakes an appetizing golden color, they are fried in a hot frying pan in a large amount of oil (its layer should be about 3 mm).
- Cover the pan with a lid to speed up the process. Many experienced housewives fry potato pancakes in two pans at once.
- After frying, it is advisable to put the potato pancakes on paper napkins so that excess oil is drained from them, and only then transfer them to a plate. So they will be less high-calorie, and it will be more pleasant to eat them.
- Draniki are served most often with sour cream, but you can use any other sauce, including lean.
- Draniki are eaten hot, if you have cooked too many of them, you can warm up the pancakes in the microwave or oven before serving the cooled portion.
- You can cook potato pancakes both from one potato and with the addition of other products: apples, mushrooms, meat. In Belarusian cuisine, there is an unusual recipe for pancakes with meat, such pancakes are called sorcerers. Below we give their recipe, accompanied by a photo.
Most pancake recipes involve the use of eggs, but there is a recipe without them. How to cook lean potato pancakes without eggs, we will also tell our readers in this material.
The most common (classic) recipe
What do you need:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- onions - 100-150 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- flour or starch - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will go.
How to cook:
- Wash, peel, grate potatoes. Squeeze to get rid of excess liquid.
- Chop the onion and mix it with the potatoes.
- Salt, pepper, beat in the eggs.
- Thicken with flour or starch.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, put the potato mass in the frying pan. You need to spread it with a tablespoon, then you get the desired size.
- Fry on each side for about 5 minutes.
- Place on a paper towel to drain the oil, then transfer to bowls.
These pancakes are served hot with sour cream.
traditional recipe
What do you need:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- onion - 150-200 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt, black ground pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
How to do:
- Peel and grate potatoes on a fine or coarse grater. Wring it out to make it dry.
- Grate or very finely chop a couple of peeled onions with a knife, mix with potatoes.
- Beat in an egg.
- Salt, pepper.
- Fry in a large amount of oil in a very hot frying pan: first, fry on both sides over a medium-intensity fire for 2-3 minutes, then hold for 5 minutes under a lid over low heat so that the potato pancakes are baked.
It will be easier to fry such potato pancakes if the potatoes are not grated too finely. This variety is needed for this variety with a high content of potatoes - these are often grown on Belarusian soil. If you follow the tradition, it is better to serve such potato pancakes with sour cream.
Lean potato pancakes without eggs
What do you need:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.;
- soda - a pinch;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
How to do:
- Peel potatoes. Grate half of the potatoes on a fine grater, the second part on a coarse grater. Stir.
- Add remaining ingredients (except oil), mix again.
- Fry until golden brown in hot oil.
You can serve such pancakes with garlic or mushroom sauce, as well as with lean mayonnaise.
with apples
What do you need:
- raw potatoes - 0.6 kg;
- apples - 0.4 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- oil - for frying.
How to cook:
- Wash and clean the main ingredients.
- Grate on a coarse grater, mix.
- Beat the eggs into the fruit and vegetable mass, salt and pepper.
- Fry in oil in a hot skillet.
You should not be afraid of such a strange neighborhood at first sight as potatoes and apples - almost everyone likes potato-apple pancakes, and their taste can be safely called harmonious.
With meat (sorcerers)
What do you need:
- potatoes - 1.5 kg;
- minced meat - 0.3 kg;
- onions - 150 g (2 pcs.);
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
How to cook:
- Peel and finely grate the potatoes (on the part of the grater called the "hedgehog").
- Pass the onion through a meat grinder and add half of it to the potatoes, mix.
- Mix the second part of the onion with minced meat.
- Add the crushed garlic to the potato mass.
- Salt and pepper both potatoes and minced meat.
- Transfer the potato mass to cheesecloth folded in several layers, laying it in a bowl, squeeze the potatoes through it. Do not pour out the squeezed water, but let it settle. After the top layer of liquid is drained, and the sediment is added back to the potatoes.
- Crack the egg into the potato mixture. Mix well.
- Put a spoonful of potato mass on your hand, form a cake.
- Put a spoonful of minced meat on top, level it, not reaching about 1 cm from the edges.
- Put another spoonful of potato mass, level it, tamping it so that it completely covers the minced meat. Fasten the edges.
- Place in hot skillet with simmering oil. When the pan is filled with sorcerers (the so-called Belarusian potato pancakes with minced meat), cover it with a lid. Fry over low heat for 12 minutes.
- Turn the sorcerers over, fry them on the other side for 10 minutes, but now without a lid.
Sorcerers are not only tasty, but also a hearty dish. In Poland, zeppelins are prepared from approximately the same products, but the method of their preparation is somewhat different.
With mushrooms
What do you need:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- mushrooms (champignons are also suitable) - 0.2 kg;
- onion - 1 head;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
- salt, pepper - to your taste;
- oil - as needed.
How to do:
- Mushrooms and onions cut into small pieces, fry them in oil until the excess liquid evaporates.
- Grate a potato, beat an egg into it, add flour, salt, pepper, mix.
- Mix with mushrooms.
- Fry like regular potato pancakes.
These pancakes are also served with sour cream. However, if you fast or do not eat animal products, the egg can be replaced with a teaspoon of starch, and sour cream with lean mayonnaise.
Potato pancakes can also be made with cheese. To do this, after they are ready, they should be sprinkled with finely grated cheese, covered with a lid and then simmered over low heat for several minutes.
Elena Pronina
One of the most delicious dishes that glorified Belarusian cuisine is potato pancakes. The recipe, thanks to its originality, scattered around the world, and even children can handle its simple preparation. Of course, potato dishes have undergone many innovations, and today culinary specialists surprise with products with meat, cheese, mushrooms, lean vegetarian options. In addition, a classic dish can be supplemented with interesting sauces.
Preparation for cooking
The technology and the set of products are simple and accessible to everyone. You will need potatoes (about 1 kg), onions (1 medium head), flour (several tablespoons), eggs (2-3 pcs.), Vegetable oil for frying. From kitchen utensils, a grater or a combine for chopping ingredients and a frying pan should be at hand.
Cooks advise choosing starchy varieties, which positively affects the taste of pancakes. If this is not possible, you can add starch as another product. Young potato tubers will not work, as there is very little starch in them.
To make pancakes at home unique, spices will help, the dish will have an original taste every time.
Prepare as follows: add a few tablespoons of flour, eggs, chopped onion, salt, spices to chopped raw potatoes. Everything is thoroughly mixed to make a homogeneous mass, then fried according to the principle of pancakes, spreading with a spoon and forming in a pan. Fry on both sides until golden in refined oil.
Classic potato pancake recipe
The classic recipe provides for dough with a minimum amount of liquid, that is, after chopping potatoes, squeeze the juice and drain.
Ingredients
Servings: 6
- potato 5 pieces
- chicken egg 2 pcs
- flour 3 art. l.
- onion 1 PC
- salt ¼ tsp
- spices to taste
per serving
Calories: 199 kcal
Proteins: 3 g
Fats: 13.2 g
Carbohydrates: 17.6 g
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Peel the potato tubers from the skin, grate on a fine grater, and drain the resulting juice.
Add flour and eggs, mix until smooth.
Heat up a frying pan, add vegetable oil. Take a tablespoon of the potato mass, put it in a pan, form a round or oblong pancake.
Fry for 5 minutes on each side.
Lay out a paper towel, put potato pancakes on top. So they will give excess moisture and fat to the napkin, turning out to be crispy and appetizing.
Sour cream and garlic sauce with herbs will be an excellent addition. Nobody limits you here, it all depends on taste.
Lean potato pancakes
Potato delicacy will be an appropriate addition to the Lenten table. To make pancakes airy, add a pinch of soda to the dough.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 8 pcs.
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
- Baking soda - a pinch.
- Wheat flour - 5 tbsp. l.
- Sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l. in the dough and for frying.
How to cook:
- Grate potatoes. You might like more textured pancakes, for which choose large holes on the grater. Drain the resulting juice.
- Pour flour and baking soda into the mixture (no need to extinguish), pour in sunflower oil. Blend until smooth.
- Put a heaping tablespoon of potato dough into the hot oil in a frying pan, fry on each side for 5 minutes until golden brown.
- Put the finished pancakes on a paper towel to get rid of excess oil.
In garlic sauce
You can cook potato pancakes with an unusual garlic sauce. This option is quite original and will appeal to the whole family.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of potatoes;
- 3 art. l. flour;
- 1 glass of sunflower oil;
- salt to taste;
- 1 can of canned white beans;
- 1 clove of garlic.
Cooking:
- The potatoes are rubbed on a fine grater, excess juice is removed.
- Salt and flour are added to the potato mass, everything is thoroughly mixed.
- In a heated frying pan, pancakes are fried for 5 minutes on each side.
- In a blender, the beans are ground to a creamy state with the addition of a few tablespoons of sunflower oil, salt (to taste), and garlic.
- The finished dish is seasoned with sauce and served on the table.
Easy pancake recipe without eggs
The recipe will appeal to vegans, allergy sufferers, and those who fast or want to reduce calories.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 8 pcs.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion -- 1 pc.
- Flour - 3 tbsp. l.
- Spices.
- Vegetable oil.
Cooking:
- The potatoes are chopped on a grater, salt is added, left for 10 minutes to separate the juice.
- The liquid is removed, chopped carrots, onions, favorite spices are added.
- The cakes are fried in a pan. If desired, you can add sauces.
Interesting and original pancake recipes
Every hostess wants to surprise loved ones and treat them to something tasty, so the following recipes are suitable for this purpose.
With cheese and onions
Draniki with cheese is a great option for those who want to make a familiar dish more tender and melting.
You can add any type of hard cheese to the traditional version. For a standard recipe of 8 potatoes, take 100 grams of the product. Don't forget the bow.
With minced meat
Another option to please yourself and loved ones. They resemble the usual belyashi. For cooking, you need minced meat, and the rest of the ingredients remain the same, only the frying technology differs.
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 300 g.
- Five potatoes.
- 1-2 chicken eggs.
- Flour - 3 tbsp. l.
- 1 onion of medium size.
- Salt and spices to taste.
How to cook:
- Cooking potato dough according to the classic recipe.
- We form pancakes. First, lay out a thin pancake.
- Then we make a thin layer of minced meat on it.
- Top the meat filling with a potato layer.
- As a result, minced meat is obtained between the test.
- Fry over moderate heat under the lid for at least 7 minutes on each side.
Minced meat for potato pancakes is no different from the one you use for cooking meatballs or meatballs. In this recipe, sour cream or sauce based on it is appropriate.
With mushrooms
Draniki with mushrooms is another interesting recipe with a unique taste and seductive aroma. You can use pre-fried in a pan with onions
If you add a spoonful of even low-fat sour cream, add another 40 kcal. The nutritional value is based on carbohydrates.
If you cook according to the traditional Belarusian recipe - without flour and eggs, the calorie content is reduced to 150-190 kcal. A dish with the addition of minced meat has an energy value of 280 kcal, but it all depends on the type of meat.
If you are on a diet, potato pancakes are best consumed in limited quantities and in the morning.
Simple tips will help to make potato pancakes the pinnacle of culinary art.
- The onion enhances the flavor and keeps the potatoes from browning.
- After frying, lay the potato pancakes on a paper towel so that the excess oil is gone and the taste becomes brighter.
- Don't use more flour than the recipe calls for, so it doesn't become rubbery.
- Potatoes are best grated, although some use a combine or meat grinder.
- A ruddy and crispy crust will turn out if the pan is warmed up enough.
Potato pancakes will be to your taste on the everyday table and on the menu for the New Year. If you prepare this dish taking into account useful recommendations, success is guaranteed. With the addition of mushrooms, minced meat, cheese, the treat will go beyond the usual and surprise with originality. Be sure to serve them with sauces: sour cream with herbs or mushrooms, mayonnaise, mustard, garlic ... There are hundreds of variations on this theme - feel free to experiment.
For some reason, it is believed that potato pancakes are a dish of special simplicity, and making it, let's say, is a spit. But that's just what has a bluish tint and a sticky consistency - these are not potato pancakes. These are clumsily cooked potato pancakes.
By the way, several world cuisines argue about whose dish this is. It somehow happened that it is considered a traditional Belarusian dish. But the Ukrainians will correct you and say that these are not draniki at all, but potato pancakes and the dish belongs to their cuisine, and the Jews will answer that latkes (this is potato pancakes again) is one of the main dishes for Hanukkah, and you can order it in the most prestigious restaurants. These are not simple ones, draniki, or terunets, or kremzliks, or ...
If you do not get (or get as described above with blue) potato pancakes, then read carefully, strictly follow the recipe and get the right, tender, sunny potato pancakes.
Since there are so many cooking recipes, we will narrow this circle down to a basic recipe, then we will complicate it a little, and then change it slightly. The main goal is to understand all the principles and subtleties of cooking potato pancakes. Join, it will be exciting, because you will learn a lot of secrets.
Basic recipe for potato pancakes
Be that as it may, potato pancakes are grated potatoes. That's the whole secret.
Ingredients
- potatoes - 5 large
- onion - half
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
- eggs - 2
- salt, pepper to your taste
- vegetable oil for frying
How to cook potato pancakes
Grate potatoes and onions on a fine grater (with the smallest round holes). If you have an assistant (combine), then the task of making a lot of potato pancakes is greatly simplified.
First, grate the onion and put it in a bowl.
Secret one. Onion, oxidizing, does not allow the potatoes to darken. Therefore, firstly, the finished potato pancakes will turn golden, and, secondly, there is no need to rush, fearing that the potatoes will darken.
Secret two. Draniki is also called potato pancakes, hence the misconception that the consistency of potato pancakes should be similar to the consistency of pancake dough.
We will not be mistaken, therefore, we will remove all the liquid from the potatoes and other products that will be used.
To do this, throw the potatoes with onions into a colander, and when the liquid drains, squeeze it out - there should be only a “dry residue” at the exit. Add salt, pepper, egg and flour, mix thoroughly.
Add salt, pepper, egg and flour, mix thoroughly.
Fry in a preheated pan with vegetable oil, spreading potato pancakes with a tablespoon.
Don't make them too thick, smooth them with the back of a spoon.
Secret three : fry over medium heat - the potatoes should be well fried inside.
Secret Four: put pancakes on a paper napkin, which will take away excess oil, because they are best served with sour cream, and so much fat content is not very healthy, although tasty.
Secret five: if you want to get crispy potato pancakes, do not stack them, lay them out in one layer.
Serve pancakes immediately, while they are hot. With sour cream, in which be sure to cut the greens.
On a note. If you need to serve a large number of fried potato pancakes to the table, then turn on the oven (t 120-140), cover the baking sheet with parchment and put pancakes from the pan on it. When everything is overcooked, put the baking sheet in a warm oven until serving, but not too long so that the potato pancakes do not dry out.
Stuffed potato pancakes
Yes, if you add the filling to the basic recipe, you get a new dish. And although potatoes never get bored, you still want variety. What stuffing to take? Imagine boiled or fried potatoes, what would you eat them with? Yes, with anything. It is precisely this “anything” that can be an addition. For example, Belarusians prefer to add meat, a great addition is a variety of vegetables: eggplant, sweet peppers, garlic, mushrooms, zucchini and others. Or sauerkraut.Replace the flour with starch to make it look like a potato.
Recipe Ingredients
- potatoes - 3 pcs.
- onion - 1
- sauerkraut - 130 grams
- egg - 1
- potato starch - 1 tbsp. the spoon
- vegetable oil for frying
How to cook stuffed potato pancakes
Finely grate the onion and potatoes, drain in a colander.
Chop the cabbage very finely.
Squeeze potatoes and cabbage and place in a bowl.
Break the egg into a small bowl, shake it up and pour it into the potatoes. Add starch, stir.
Fry as in the first case, in vegetable oil, medium heat. Lay out on a napkin.
Serve hot.
Potato pancakes with carrots
Why with carrots? Because she and potatoes are a very tasty combination. Carrots give tenderness and sweetness to potatoes, and potatoes give carrots satiety.
But so that life does not seem like a culinary paradise, we will make pancakes grated on a coarse grater.
Recipe Ingredients
- potatoes - 4
- carrots - 1 medium
- herbs, salt, pepper - to taste
- egg - 1
- flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
How to cook potato pancakes with carrots
Grate carrots and potatoes on a coarse grater. Place in a colander, then squeeze and transfer to a bowl. By the way, there is much less liquid from coarsely grated potatoes.
Add the egg and finely chopped greens, salt and pepper. Stir.
Add flour and mix well again.
Fry over medium heat in vegetable oil.
Serve hot with sour cream.
ON A NOTE
Having tried variations with finely and coarsely grated potatoes, you will understand which one you like best. But this is not a reason to stop, because you can combine, for example, finely and medium grated potatoes - you get a soft center and a crispy top.
If some vegetables do not rub well on a fine grater, pass them through a meat grinder.
P.S. It seems that we have diligently revealed all the secrets of cooking potato pancakes, and they are clearly visible on your monitor. Or have we forgotten something? .. Then, please, remind us in the comments everything that you think is necessary, important and useful.
What only dishes are not prepared from potatoes. It seems that it will hardly be possible to surprise your loved ones. However, appetizing potato pancakes with a golden crust, which are also called potato pancakes, will surely not leave your loved ones indifferent. Draniki are easy to prepare. Today there are a huge number of recipes. This is due to the fact that you can add sauerkraut, fried mushrooms, onions, garlic, greens and much more to your taste in potato pancake dough. Undoubtedly, this will no longer be a classic potato pancake recipe, but it’s not the name that matters, but the taste and gastronomic preferences of your loved ones. So, we bring to your attention a few pancake recipes.
To prepare this dish, it is better to grate the potatoes on a fine grater. Of course, it is much easier to rub on a coarse grater or pass through a meat grinder (food processor), but the tenderness of pancakes is lost. Therefore, it is better to spend a few extra minutes, but get a really tasty dish.
Recipe for potato pancakes with sour cream
Potatoes, grated on a fine grater, mixed with sour cream, add an egg. Everything is thoroughly mixed and salted. The resulting dough is spread with a tablespoon on a well-heated pan with vegetable oil. Then they are fried on both sides like regular pancakes.
Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Sour cream (30%) - 1 tablespoon;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.
Recipe for pancakes with onions
The onion is peeled and finely chopped. The smaller you cut the onion, the more uniform the pancakes will be. Grated potatoes are mixed with an egg, chopped onion, an egg is added. Everything is thoroughly mixed and salted.
Draniki are fried in a heated frying pan, frying on both sides.
For cooking you will need:
Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Onion - 1 pc.;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.
Recipe for potato pancakes with flour
Draniki prepared according to this recipe are especially loved at my house. In order for the pancakes not to turn out rubber, you must not overdo it with flour. Egg and flour are added to the grated potatoes. Flour is added gradually, all the while stirring the dough, which should turn out like sour cream (it is better not to add flour than to put too much). Don't forget to salt the resulting mixture. Draniki are fried on both sides in vegetable oil in a heated frying pan.
To make pancakes you will need:
Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Flour - 2 tablespoons (approximately);
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.
Draniki are served hot with sour cream. Potato pancakes are an appetizing and tasty dish during the preparation of which you can show your imagination and, perhaps, surprise your loved ones with your culinary skills.
