Thin pancakes are every woman's cherished dreamhousewives. There is also a popular saying: "Thin pancakes are a symbol of the bright sun." If you know how to knead and fry delicious thin pancakes, then this is an indicator of culinary skill. It turns out that although pancakes are a traditional Russian dish, they are also quite typical for German and French cuisines, and even in the States, people are familiar with such a wonderful dish. So, how do you make delicious pancakes for breakfast? There are many cooking methods, but you must know that the main secret, thanks to which you can cook thin pancakes with milk, is hidden in the kneading of the dough. For such pancakes, you need to knead the dough according to the recipe without adding yeast starter. Since yeast raises the dough, the pancakes become plump.
Recipe for thin pancakes on milk
So, let's take on board an interesting recipe for pancakes cooked in milk. To implement this recipe, you need the following ingredients:
- Flour - 2 full cups of wheat flour.You can take more, it all depends on your appetite and desire, but then don’t forget to bring the proportions of the other products into the right proportions.
- Milk - 0.5 l (if there is not enough milk, you can dilute it with water).
- Eggs - 3 pieces. It is advisable to take large ones with a brown tint for this, they have large bright yellow yolks.
- Sugar — 3 tsp or 1 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tsp or 1 tbsp.
- Salt - a pinch.
Cooking process
Lump-free dough In order to kneadthe dough turned out without any lumps, first prepare the eggs, sugar and salt. Mix everything thoroughly. The dough preparation itself is not difficult if you follow the recipe steps and some rules. You can add flour. This is done gradually, because this way it will be easier to mix. Only when the flour is completely absorbed and a uniform mass is created, you can gradually pour in the milk and mix everything thoroughly but carefully. First add the flour, then the milk, only then will no lumps form. But if you pour 2 cups of flour into 0.5 liters of milk, you can get tired of destroying the hated lumps, squeezing them against the walls of the dish in every possible way, so much so that you will lose the desire to do anything further. It is best to use a blender for convenient dough mixing. In this case, you can forget about lumps. If you do not have such kitchen equipment - no problem, you can use a regular whisk. Now is the time to add vegetable oil to the dough. For this recipe, you can use regular sunflower oil, olive oil or corn oil. It would be better to use odorless oil for this recipe, in which case it will not be able to interrupt the delicate, most delicate aroma of pancakes cooked in milk. And those with a sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar required to their taste. You can also diversify the taste by using vanilla and cinnamon, but keep in mind that cinnamon will change the color of the dough to a dark chocolate color. Not many housewives know that in order for the pancakes to be prepared not only ruddy, beautiful, tasty and thin, but also with interesting holes-bubbles, when making the dough, you can pour in a couple of tablespoons of water. Frying thin pancakes according to the recipe with milk The frying pan, which is intended for frying thin pancakes, should be preheated well enough. You should be prepared in advance for the fact that you will not be able to move away from the stove and will have to do everything quite quickly until the dough runs out. Since thin pancakes are fried lightning fast, you should not keep such a thin food product on the fire for too long. If you take a cast iron frying pan for frying, then it is thoroughly greased with oil, or a small piece of lard, but a very, very thin layer. The thinner the grease, the better and tastier the pancakes will be. Vegetable oil was initially added when making our dough, this was done only so that the pancakes would not suddenly decide to stick to the pan. Therefore, you do not need to pour a lot of oil into the pan. If you use a Teflon frying pan, then you do not need to grease it with anything, the amount of oil that was initially poured into the dough when making it will be enough.How to properly pour batter into a frying pan?When frying, the prepared dough can be poured using a large wooden spoon. This process looks very impressive and beautiful from the outside, and wood is considered a good material for cooking. You can also use a small ladle. To prepare one thin pancake, you will need only ½ of a ladle. By the way, when the frying pan is very large, then the volume of the batter you need is larger. For a small frying pan, accordingly, less. In this case, the best way to determine is by the first 2 pancakes. Many housewives usually make the first pancake thicker than necessary, and the second portion of the dough is not always enough to make the pancake round, occupying the entire area of the pancake pan. After two attempts, any housewife should get the hang of it and calculate how much dough is needed to fry a normal thin pancake according to this recipe in her frying pan. The poured pancake dough is dispersed over the entire surface of the preheated frying pan in a very thin layer with rotating and smooth movements. Despite the fact that the dough needs to be stirred smoothly, it needs to be stirred very quickly, since the frying pan is hot, and the pancakes need to be thin. As soon as the dough is nicely browned and no longer a liquid mass, it can be carefully turned over. The highest level of skill is considered to be turning the pancakes by throwing them up. But not everyone can do this. In this case, it is better not to use wooden spatulas, since they are too thick for our pancakes according to the recipe with milk and will tear the dough. You can use a dessert knife, but it must be blunt, such that it cannot cut anything, only spread butter on bread. The frying pan will not scratch on it, and the pancakes will cling well - this is quite easy and convenient. And to be absolutely sure that the pancakes will not tear, you need to take a couple of dessert knives for this. According to this recipe, the back side of the pancakes fries much faster than the first. And in just a few seconds you can remove the pancake from the frying pan. After frying each pancake, the frying pan must be greased, and only then pour the next pancake.
A few words about the filling
These pancakes will be tasty and good not onlyhot, but also cold. They can be filled with any filling you like and then carefully but thoroughly folded like an envelope. Delicious pancakes can be obtained if you spread them with condensed milk, fresh sour cream, strawberry or raspberry jam, marmalade, pour syrup or honey. If the pancakes are not sweet, then liver pate, squash or eggplant caviar, vegetable snacks, mushrooms are suitable as tasty fillings. In general, you can fill them with anything that your own imagination and means are enough for.