Preliminary preparation
Before you begin the cooking process, you should stock up on all the necessary ingredients. You will need:
- Young courgettes are small in size.
- Chicken eggs.
- Wheat flour.
- Vegetable oil.
- Onion.
- Salt.
- Greenery.
- Ground red pepper.
Particular attention should be paid to the choice of vegetables.Old zucchini often have quite coarse flesh. Therefore, it is recommended to cook fluffy zucchini pancakes using young vegetables. Their skin is so thin, rich in minerals and vitamin complexes, that it is not necessary to cut it off. If you cannot find fresh vegetables, you can cook a dish from old zucchini. However, in this case, the skin must be cut off. It is also worth removing all the seeds from the pulp. To enjoy delicious zucchini pancakes, you need to achieve the right consistency of the dough. When it is too liquid, the pancakes spread out and resemble failed, easily torn pancakes. If the dough is made too thick, the pancakes can remain raw inside and burn on the outside. Therefore, the best option is to achieve a dough consistency reminiscent of thick sour cream. Fry the dish in preheated oil. If you put the dough on a frying pan that is not hot enough, the zucchini pancakes will stick to the bottom and will not be very fluffy. You can eat the dish both hot and cold. Sour cream will be a great addition to the pancakes.
The recipe for a delicious dish
Young medium-sized vegetable carefullyRinse under running water and dry with paper towels. Peel the onion and finely chop the greens. Then rub the zucchini and onion through a fine grater and add chopped fresh greens to them. The minced meat prepared in this way should be left alone for no more than a quarter of an hour. During this period, excess liquid will accumulate at the bottom of the container, which should be drained. After 15 minutes, add a chicken egg, salt to taste and crushed red pepper to the minced meat. Mix the mass well and begin to add flour in the amount of 1 tbsp., without stopping stirring. It is advisable to break up all the lumps so that the dough is as homogeneous as possible. Put the dough on a preheated frying pan with a spoon and fry the zucchini pancakes over medium heat. Fry the pancakes on each side for 5 minutes. But everything depends on the degree of heating. It is important to ensure that the dish does not burn. As soon as the pancakes become fluffy, acquire a pleasant, appetizing crispy crust and an incredibly beautiful golden hue, you can remove them from the frying pan.
