Draniki, very popular in Russia and Ukraine,countries of Europe, are a traditional Belarusian dish. having a unique taste. Potato pancakes are usually served hot with various sauces: butter, sour cream or machanka. In this case, the taste of the pancakes is enhanced. There are a great many recipes for pancakes, or, in other words, potato pancakes.

Little secrets for cooking pancakes

It is necessary to rub the potatoes as quickly as possible toto avoid its darkening. In this case, adding onions to the resulting potato mass will help prevent its darkening, and the onion itself will make your pancakes more juicy and tasty.

In order to greatly facilitate the process of making potato pancakes, you can use a food processor with a special nozzle or blender.

Do not put too thick pancakes on the pan, since they may not be roasted inside (this will not happen if the consistency of the potato mixture is correct).

Squeeze the potato juice thoroughly afterchopping the potatoes and before adding the onion - this will help to avoid splashing hot sunflower oil and will make the potato pancakes more tender, fluffier and tastier.

The prepared Belarusian delicacy must be laid out on a towel, which will remove excess vegetable oil.

I would also like to note that at the momentThere are a huge number of recipes for making delicious potato pancakes in cooking: potato pancakes with meat, with chopped bacon, potato pancakes with minced meat. In the midst of the summer cottage season, you can also use recipes with carrots, zucchini, pumpkin, celery to prepare this wonderful dish. To diversify your table and surprise your household with delicious and varied dishes, prepare fish, potato pancakes, as well as potato pancakes with mushrooms (champignons or any wild mushrooms). Cooking this wonderful dish will not take much time! You can choose any from the arsenal of recipes for this beloved dish. Below are recipes for making potato pancakes.

Classic recipe for pancakes

Ingredients:

• 6 medium-sized potatoes,
• 1 egg,
• 2 tbsp. l. flour,
• 1 PC. onions,
• vegetable oil,
• seasonings (salt, pepper) - to taste.

Step-by-step recipe for making classic potato pancakes:

We wash the potatoes, peel them. We pass it through a meat grinder (rub it on a fine grater or grind it in a blender).

Onion is cleaned, let's go through a meat grinder (rub it on a fine grater or grind it in a blender).

Mix the crushed potatoes and onions.

In the received weight we add egg, a flour, salt, pepper. Thoroughly mix. Potato mass for consistency should resemble sour cream.

We heat the frying pan, grease it with vegetable oil. Using a tablespoon, spread the resulting mass on a frying pan as pancakes.

Fry the pancakes on each side for about 2 minutes (until a ruddy crust is formed).

We serve hot on the table with any sauce. If you follow this recipe, then everything will turn out unusually delicious.

Step-by-step recipe for cheese pancakes

You will need:

• 8 medium-sized potatoes,
• 1 chicken egg,
• 100 grams of cheese (any, to your taste),
• 2 tbsp. l. flour,
• seasoning (salt, pepper) - to taste,
• sunflower oil.

There is no onion in this recipe, but you can add it if you want. The pancakes will still be very tasty. The process of making cheese pancakes is as follows:

Potatoes are washed under running water, cleanedit, once again washed. To grind potatoes, use any convenient method for you: a large grater, a blender, a meat grinder, a food processor. Grind potatoes, squeeze out the potato juice.

Cheese is rubbed on a large grater. To the process of rubbing cheese was easier and safer, freeze it beforehand in the refrigerator (not in the freezer!) For 1-2 hours.

In a deep bowl, mix potato paste, grated cheese, egg.

Add flour, mix well until smooth. Here we add salt and pepper to taste.

Heat the frying pan over medium heat, add a small amount of vegetable oil. On the heated frying pan with the help of a tablespoon we spread the received weight as pancakes.

Fry potato pancakes on both sides for about 2 minutes before crusting.

Serve the cheese pancakes on the table with sauce, sour cream or mchanka.

Step-by-step recipe for potato pancakes with meat

You will need:

• 2-3 medium-sized potatoes,
• 200 g of meat (pork, lamb),
• 1 chicken egg,
• 100 g of flour (about half a glass),
• 1 PC. onions,
• seasonings (salt, pepper, hops-suneli) - to taste,
• vegetable oil.

We owe this delicious recipe to the Belarusians. The process of making potato pancakes with meat:

We peel the potatoes from the peel, rinse under a stream of running water. We grind in any convenient way for you: on a grater, on a meat grinder, blender, in a food processor.

In the resulting potato we add a chicken egg, half a cup of flour. All this is well mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Solim, pepper to taste.

We take the flesh of pork / mutton, rinse it under cold running water. Grind the meat in such a way that it looks chopped (that is, small pieces), you can cut it by hand.

We clean the onions and crush them in the same way as the meat. Add the onion to the meat, pepper and salt to taste, add hops-suneli. All this is well mixed.

On average heat we heat the frying pan, we wash itits a small amount of sunflower oil. To the heated frying pan, a table spoon is laid out in the form of lozenges, the resulting potato mass. In the middle of each such flat cake we spread the meat mass. Then we close our stuffing with potato mixture on top.

First fry our draniki on high fire. As soon as a golden crust appears on one side (it can take literally 10 seconds), turn the potato fritters on the other side, reduce the heat and fry them for another 3-4 minutes.

On the table, the dish is served hot with sour cream or any other favorite sauce.

As mentioned earlier, you canexperiment with this dish as you like: add semolina, garlic, herbs, bake potato pancakes in the oven. you can make a potato pancake pie. In this case, you need to bake the mass not like pancakes, but like crepes. Put one prepared potato pancake on top of another, spread sauce between them (sour cream mixed with lightly fried onions, carrots and mushrooms). Then put it in the oven for 20 minutes (to brown) - and on the table. This simple recipe resembles a pancake pie, but its taste is much better. Enjoy your meal!

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