You can find all kinds of pancakes and crepesarsenal of housewives! This is one of the first dishes that, as a rule, a young wife masters, even if she has never approached the stove before. To please her husband and bake delicious pancakes for breakfast, you could take the simplest recipe, but the main thing is the fact of cooking your own breakfast. Some housewives stop at the simplest recipe, while others continue to search for new ideas and strive for perfection in baking pancakes all their lives. For both of them, our article. Probably, there is no point in giving here a recipe for traditional pancakes consisting of flour, milk, slaked soda and salt. Pancakes according to this recipe are simple, unpretentious, and relatively dietary. After all, there is no butter or eggs in their composition. Although you can add both. And the taste will become richer, and the pancakes themselves - more satisfying and caloric. We offer you recipes for more original pancakes, definitely worthy of repeating.
Crepe Suzette. Light, thin, with orange sauce
Crepes are French dessert pancakes. The dough for them is quite simple, and the main highlight is in the way they are served, in our case, in aromatic orange syrup. Dough:
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Milk - 2 tbsp.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Butter - 2 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1 tsp.
Preparation:In a large bowl, mix the flour with salt and sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, add milk and butter. Gradually pour the liquid mixture into the flour mixture, stirring to avoid lumps. If the dough is too thick, you can add more water or milk. Bake very thin pancakes in a preheated frying pan, previously greased with oil. Sauce:
- Juice from two fresh oranges (can be replaced and ready, 1 glass)
- Root of ginger - 2 cm
- Sugar to taste
- Orange liqueur or syrup - 2 tbsp.
- Butter - 2 tbsp.
Preparation:Pour orange juice into a small saucepan or stewpan and bring to a boil. Add sugar, liqueur or syrup, grated ginger root and butter. Cook over low heat until the sauce thickens and its volume is reduced by half. Serve the finished pancakes, pouring hot sauce over them. You must admit that these pancakes are a great way to start a Saturday morning, when there is no need to rush and you can fully enjoy a delicious breakfast and a fragrant cup of coffee.
Pancakes "Healthy"
Do your family members like oatmeal?Despite the fact that it is extremely useful, not all children and adults are convinced to eat oats. One way to trick your family into eating oatmeal is to make pancakes out of it. And then be sure to tell your friends who are familiar with the same problem about the magic pancake recipe. Ingredients:
- Oat flakes - 1 glass
- Wheat flour - 1 glass
- Yeast (15 g fresh or 1 tsp dry)
- Milk 1-1,5 cups
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- A pinch of salt
- Sugar to taste
Preparation:To make pancakes, fry the oatmeal in a dry frying pan until lightly golden and nutty. This takes about 5 minutes or less. Do not leave them unattended, as the flakes burn quickly. Stir them constantly. Pour hot milk (1 cup) over the finished flakes and leave for an hour to swell. After an hour, prepare the yeast. Pour the remaining warm milk (warm, not hot) over the fresh yeast, add a little sugar and let rise. Dry yeast can be added directly to the dough, mixing with flour. Or you can add milk and let rise, as described in the instructions on the package. Beat an egg into the oatmeal mixture, add some of the flour, and mix well. Pour in the prepared yeast, add the remaining flour. Knead the dough well, cover the bowl with cling film and put in a warm place to rise for half an hour. After half an hour, knead the dough again and leave it to rise again. After an hour, you can bake the pancakes. Heat the frying pan, grease it with vegetable oil. Put a portion of the dough on the hot frying pan with a spoon, smooth it out slightly, forming round pancakes, and fry on both sides until golden brown. Serve with sour cream, jam, or preserves. An idea for a quick jam: mash a banana with a fork into a puree, add a pinch of cinnamon or ground cardamom. You can serve it right away, or put it in the microwave for a few minutes to warm it up. And serve with oatmeal pancakes, with milk or tea.
Buckwheat pancakes
Buckwheat pancakes are another onean unconventional way to feed picky household members with healthy products. Buckwheat flour differs from wheat flour in its low gluten content, so pancakes made from it are fragile and brittle. And for such pancakes, the recipe usually involves adding wheat flour. Ingredients:
- Flour buckwheat and wheat - 1 glass
- 7 g dry yeast
- 2 cups milk + half cup
- ½ cup of yogurt or yogurt
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp. salt
Preparation:Heat up some milk, add yeast according to the instructions on the package. Beat the yolks, milk, kefir or yogurt. Pour in the dissolved yeast. Sift flour (both types) into a deep bowl, add salt. Gradually pour in the milk and egg mixture, knead the dough. Beat the whites into a foam and carefully add them to the dough, without stirring too much. Leave the pancake dough to rise in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours. Take a small frying pan, heat it up and grease it with butter. Bake the pancakes, keeping in mind their delicate structure, not making them too thin. You can serve with butter and sour cream, or you can come up with a savory filling for them, like fried vegetable mince made from onions and carrots. Such pancakes also go well with cheese, fish or caviar.
Pancakes are not simple, but with stuffing
The favorite dish of the stronger sex is, of course,meat. Then how about pancakes with meat? The dough for pancakes with filling should be light and liquid. Pancakes from it are tender and thin. Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 glass
- Milk - about 2 cups
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 2-3 tablespoons.
- Sugar - 1 tsp.
Preparation:Mix flour with sugar, and milk with beaten eggs and butter. Pour the resulting mixture into the flour and knead a liquid homogeneous dough. You can use a mixer at low speed. Bake thin pancakes from the dough, not letting them brown or even burn. They should be tender and pale. Stack the pancakes. Filling:
- Minced meat - 300 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Spices for meat, salt
- Milk or kefir - 2-3 tablespoons.
It is better not to use the thickest minced meat for the filling.dietary, otherwise the filling will be dry. So, fry the minced meat in a frying pan, add finely chopped and also fried onion and spices. Add milk or kefir and mix well. Milk will help retain the liquid that the meat will release during further heat treatment, and will make the filling more juicy. Put 1-2 spoons of filling on the finished pancakes and wrap them. Some people wrap the pancakes like an envelope, others prefer to roll them into a tube or triangle. Here it all depends on your desire and imagination. By the way, different shapes of pancakes will help you navigate if you decide to make them with several types of filling at once. Then you can wrap pancakes with meat in an envelope, with a triangle - with a cheese filling, and in a tube - with a curd filling. Fry the finished pancakes with filling in a frying pan with butter, browning on both sides. Enjoy your meal!
Pancakes on beer
And one more recipe: pancakes that should please the stronger sex. You can't classify these pancakes as dessert, but rather as an addition or side dish to meat dishes, fish, shashlik or salads. Ingredients:
- Flour - 2.5 cups
- Beer - 0,5 liters
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sour cream - 1 tbsp.
- Salt, sugar - for 1 tsp.
Preparation:Mix the yolks with sugar, salt and sour cream. Pour in the beer and stir. Pour the egg-beer mixture into the flour and knead the dough. Beat the whites separately and carefully add to the finished dough. Heat the frying pan and grease with butter. Bake the pancakes, browning them on each side. They will not be as soft and tender as the usual wheat pancakes with milk, that's obvious. But a real man's snack like smoked fish will go well with such pancakes and a glass of cold beer will not be superfluous at all. As you can see, you already have a recipe for Friday dinner.
Pancake cake
A simple recipe for a simple and delicious dessert.It's not even a recipe, but just a good idea. The idea is to bake a lot of delicious pancakes from rich dough. That is, from dough that contains, in addition to milk and flour, also eggs, sugar and oil (butter or vegetable). The pancakes need to be baked quite thin, but the main advantage of the cake is that even not very successful pancakes will be used - they can be placed in the middle of the cake. For the layer (impregnation), you can make a cream from sour cream and sugar (for 1 cup of sour cream 3 tablespoons of sugar), from sour cream and condensed milk, taken in equal parts. Whipped cream with sugar is also ideal for this purpose. The preparation is simple: stack the pancakes, spreading each layer with cream. Decorate the top with cream, fresh berries, coconut or chocolate chips. We recommend reading:
