It's simple and very tasty dish has many names - in Ukraine - potato pancakes, in Belarus - pancakes, in some regions of Ukraine - teruns, or, more simply, - pancakes made from raw potatoes.
Draniki are very easy to prepare, but to make them tasty, you need to try a little and know a few secrets.
How to prepare potato pancakes, what should they be like?
Delicious potato pancakes are ruddy fluffy pancakes made from potatoes, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The same principle is used for batter - crispy crust and tender center. Mmmmm...
They are usually served with sour cream, mushroom sauce or with minced meat. Potato pancakes go well with this savory snack, like , even on festive table. And also together with, you will get a complete lunch.
Potato pancakes preparation
Basic mistakes when preparing pancakes:
Cooking potato pancakes - products
- Potatoes – 1 kg
- Onions – 2-3 pcs.
- Egg – 2 pcs.
- Flour – 1-2 tbsp.
- Garlic – 1-2 cloves
- Sour cream or milk - 1 tbsp.
- Salt, ground black pepper - to taste
Delicious potato pancakes - how to cook potato pancakes
As I said earlier, first we prepare all the ingredients except the potatoes.
Beat eggs with salt and pepper, add garlic, passed through a garlic press or grated fine grater.
We pass the onion through a meat grinder with the smallest holes or three on a fine grater, and we also chop the potatoes.
Squeeze out the juice and drain, and quickly mix the potatoes with onions. Next, to be completely sure that the dough will not darken, add a little sour cream or milk to the mixture of onions and potatoes.
If the consistency of the dough suits you (the potato pancakes should not “spread” when placed in a frying pan), you do not need to add flour. I’ll add on my own that I put 1 tbsp per 1 kg of potatoes. spoon of flour. Mom’s potato pancakes don’t go well with flour at all, she does it a little differently - drains potato juice into a separate bowl, when the starch settles to the bottom, drain the liquid, and add the starch to the dough to obtain an even crispier crust.
True, at the same time, additional time is needed for starch, and I usually don’t have enough of it.
Now that the dough for potato pancakes is ready, you need to warm up a frying pan with vegetable oil or lard, onto which we place our potato pancakes - potato pancakes.
We fry in a hot frying pan on both sides, I don’t cover it with a lid, but at the same time I spread the dough not with tableware, but dessert spoon, i.e. potato pancakes are medium in size. Then I put them on a napkin to remove fat and serve with sour cream.
True, usually, for me, the process of serving potato pancakes ends at the stage of laying them out on a napkin. At the same time, the male population of our family stands nearby with a jar of sour cream in impatient hands. The potato pancakes disappear before they even reach the plate. To all my comments that it is advisable to eat at the table, they smile guiltily, but with a new batch of potato pancakes the same thing is repeated.
The story with potato pancakes is almost over, I just want to add that if you want to make them larger, spoon out the dough with a tablespoon. But, in this case, after frying potato pancakes until golden brown crust on the one hand, turn them over and, reducing the heat, cover with a lid for 4-5 minutes, otherwise, in the middle, the potato pancakes will be raw.
In western Ukraine they make potato pancakes, the size of a whole frying pan, and fry them like pancakes. Then the filling is laid out on one side (mushrooms, meat, feta cheese...), and a mesh of sour cream is made on top. The dish is called in the singular – “Derun with mushrooms”, Derun with meat.”
One ate and stuffed himself.
Pancakes are also cooked in pots, layered with meat or mushrooms and baked with a cheese cap.
Bon appetit, I wish you to prepare potato pancakes, and I hope there are no questions left about how to prepare them deliciously.
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Potato pancakes. 10 step by step recipes with photo
Good day everyone! Ekaterina is in touch with you! I continue the series of articles on dishes with my favorite vegetables. Today I would like to touch on such a fruit as potatoes. Namely, I offer you recipes for potato pancakes in different interpretations.
It turns out that this is very ancient dish, which allegedly originated in Belarus and Ukraine. Well, then it became popular absolutely everywhere.
Interesting! What in every country they gave him very unusual names. For example, bulba, tarked or clinked mass, latkes, potato pancakes, potato pancakes, hashbrown and reshti. And so not strange potato pancakes.
If you like different fried foods, then I suggest you prepare some more like this delicious pancakes on milk.
Which name do you like best? what do you call them at home? Share your experiences. There are a lot of variations, there are even Lithuanian ones different types cereals, for example with semolina or buckwheat. Prepared from raw or boiled potatoes. There is a very cool and easy option American :) In general, if you are interested, read this article to the end and write your comments.
A selection of the best and most delicious potato pancake recipes:
Potato pancakes, step-by-step recipe with photos.
How to make potato pancakes?
The most popular, best and standard version of cooking from raw potatoes, which probably absolutely everyone knows. Of course, you can modify it at your discretion by adding any other ingredients. They turn out quite soft, but at the same time crispy.
We will need:
- potatoes - 6-7 pcs.
- onion- 1 PC.
- flour - 2-3 tbsp
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- salt and pepper to taste
- vegetable oil for frying
Cooking method:
1. Take fresh washed potatoes. Using a knife, remove all the dark skin, i.e. peel it. Next, take it and grate it. Now squeeze it all out excess liquid, pressing down on him with his hands.
Interesting! Why do you think onions are used in this option, and why are they not advised to remove them? Why do potato pancakes turn black? Anyone who prepares this dish without onions may notice the blackness. It is the onion that makes it possible for the potatoes not to turn black.
There is another secret with what you can replace onions so that the potato pancakes do not darken, read about it in the next subsection.
Now grate the onion. I used to always cry so much when I did this procedure. And now I have found a solution to this problem. You need to put the onion in the refrigerator for an hour in advance. I don’t know why, but it’s the cold in the onion that kills something that then helps me not to cry. How do you save yourself? 🙂 And then add it to the potato mixture.
3. Add a couple of tablespoons of flour and mix well. Now heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry these potato pancakes, or pancakes, whatever you like.
Important! There are potatoes that contain sufficient quantity starch. You don't need to add flour to this one.
Well, the final stage is turning it over, after the first side is fried and you see a beautiful crust, turn it over to the other. I usually use forks for turning, what about you? Many people also ask whether it is necessary to close it with a lid when frying; personally, I never close it.
4. This is what you should get, these golden beauties that will certainly decorate your table for lunch or dinner.
Important! If you want your delicacies to be crispy, similar to the taste of chips, then firstly place the dough in a not very thick layer in the frying pan. Secondly, after frying, each potato pancake will need to be placed on a napkin to remove all excess fat, and of course, so that they do not take moisture from each other.
5. Serve with sour cream and herbs. Bon appetit!
Potato pancakes, classic version
Do you think it is possible to cook potato pancakes without flour? Yes, of course you can, but how? In that traditional recipe I will not use an ingredient such as flour specifically to show you the whole frying process.
As promised, I’ll tell you which one secret ingredient need to be added to prevent the potatoes from turning black during cooking. Perhaps you already guessed? This is lemon juice, but I like to use grated onion more, it makes them more piquant.
Interesting! Another trick you can use is simply soak the potato mixture in milk.
Take more products, because they are very tasty and filling. They can feed the whole family. You can serve it with any sauce, for example regular sour cream, or make your own, I usually take mayonnaise into it through a press, pass garlic through a press, mix everything well and add just a drop of freshly ground black pepper. It turns out very tasty and aromatic.
We will need:
- Potatoes - 12 pcs.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Egg - 1-2 pcs.
- Salt - to taste
- Oil -10 tbsp for frying
Cooking method:
1. I was once asked if it was possible to cook this dish without grating the potatoes. coarse grater, but use something similar to mashed potatoes. And skip main ingredient through a blender. Yes, of course you can, but why not. Now in modern world to speed up any process there is good helpers in our kitchen.
You can also put it through a meat grinder, it will turn out very tender and soft.
Important! Squeeze the resulting consistency through cheesecloth or at least with your hands to get rid of excess juice.
Then add one egg, salt and pepper to taste.
Interesting! This mixture resembles minced meat, only it is not meat, but potato.) 😆
3. Now take a tablespoon and carefully scoop out the thin mush from the bowl, spread it in a thin layer over the frying pan, forming small cakes like these. Fry until you see a golden brown crust.
Important! Fry in a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil. How many minutes to fry? Usually it’s 2-3 minutes, but I never time it, I focus purely on appearance, if it is beautiful and rosy, then everything is ready.
5. Serve with sweet tea or any fruit, berry jelly. They look simply great, just like in a restaurant or cafe.
Potato pancakes with minced meat in a frying pan
To achieve maximum satiety, my husband especially likes to eat these, I stuff them with meat or minced meat. You can use absolutely any minced meat, for example mixed beef + pork or chicken or game.
We will need:
- potatoes – 4-5 pcs.
- egg – 1 pc.
- wheat flour – 0.4 tbsp.
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Cooking method:
1. All stages of preparation are almost no different from the first two options. You will also first have to peel the potatoes, and then grate them with a grater or put them through a meat grinder or blender. Next, salt and pepper everything to your taste. Add grated onion and for aroma and juiciness you can add a spoonful of sour cream. Beat in the egg.
2. Salt and pepper the minced meat, mix well. If you have it frozen, be sure to defrost it in advance in a warm place.
Important! Instead of minced meat, you can take chopped cabbage, mushrooms or something else and add it.
3. Add flour to the dough, note that it is used here more than in other versions, because I wanted to diversify this second dish to make “creations” similar to potato pancakes with filling.
4. Heat the frying pan well in vegetable oil.
4. Well, now the fun begins, you need to carefully form small cakes in the form of a potato mixture, put minced meat in the center, and apply again on top potato dough.
5. Fry over low heat so that the minced meat inside is well and evenly fried for about 2-3 minutes, determine the frying temperature yourself, just make sure that the potatoes do not burn immediately. I also make one or two potato pancakes with a surprise inside, and put a few pieces of ham or sausage in them. Every time we have new lucky ones who then wash the dishes, everything is fair.
One day, my son’s friend was visiting us, and I was just making these delicious treats, so he actually said that this dish was gorgeous, just like at McDonald’s.
6. Fry on both sides until nice delicious crust, turn over with a special spatula or two forks, like I did. Serve with sour cream and herbs. By the way, cold potato pancakes are also tasty, you can eat them the next day, just heat them in the microwave, of course they will lose their crunch, but the taste will remain!
Belarusian potato pancakes with meat
Well, this type reminds me of the taste from childhood, like my grandmother’s, for me it’s also quite light. My grandmother adheres to a small diet, and therefore prepares pancakes with chicken meat, or with chicken thighs. And I like it best with chicken breast. Of course, these potato “creations” themselves can hardly be classified as lean, dietary dishes. You agree with me? Just calories and a lot of oil, also fried in fat. 🙂
This technology is passed on from generation to generation, because there is nothing tastier than these juicy potato pancakes, as the Belarusians used to call them, it was from them that we got acquainted with this dish and now we all love it very much.
Interesting! Do you know what the secrets of Belarusian potato pancakes are? They are prepared exclusively with the addition of sour cream to the dough. And it turns out amazingly tasty and juicy! My mouth started watering while I was writing, I remembered their taste and aroma.
We will need:
- potatoes - 0.5 kg
- onion - 1 pc.
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 2 tbsp. l
- sour cream (in dough) - 2 tbsp. l.
- salt and black pepper - to taste
- meat (I have fillet chicken thighs) - 300 g
- vegetable oil for frying;
- sour cream for serving
Cooking method:
1. Thaw the legs or chicken breast if your meat is frozen. Wash well under cold running water running water. Cut into pieces with a sharp knife, remove the skin, it will not be needed. The pieces must be very small so that they are thoroughly fried later.
2. Peel the potatoes.
3. Pass it through a meat grinder. If you don’t want to take out a meat grinder, you can make these simple steps how to grate it on a coarse grater. You can also not cut the meat, but pass it through this electrical appliance.
4. Now mix the meat pieces with minced chicken. Mince the onion or grate it.
6. Using a spoon, carefully place small flat cakes in the form of circles or ovals onto a heated frying pan with vegetable oil. You can make absolutely any shape, the one you like best.
7. Fry them until cooked on both sides until they have a nice piquant crust. Have a magical taste! Bon appetit! Garnish with herbs and sour cream.
Potato pancakes with ham and cheese, herbs
This option is truly amazing, I just love it. Well, probably because I love potatoes, ham and cheese. I also always add greens to this dish, and when it’s winter outside I take frozen ones. I usually always have frozen dill in my freezer. It's very appropriate here.
Important! You can take greens not only fresh, finely chopped, but also dried. This doesn't make the taste any worse.
Instead of greens, you can add absolutely any seasonings. What are you adding? Share your opinion in the comments.
We will need:
- potatoes - 6 pcs
- onion - 1-2 pcs.
- ham – 110 g
- cheese - 110 g
- kefir - 3-4 tbsp
- flour - 2-3 tbsp
- garlic - 1-2 cloves
- any greens, such as dill or parsley
Cooking method:
1. Well, as usual, let's start with the simplest. Grind all the ingredients, just like in the picture. Well, it turned out to be some kind of sunny composition. Grate cheese and ham, as well as potatoes. Chop the greens very finely with a knife. Squeeze the garlic through a garlic press. Well, grate the onion accordingly too.
2. Salt and pepper, add egg and kefir to make it juicier and softer. Stir. Add flour.
3. The final stage— frying finished products with cheese and ham.
Important! Take only an environmentally friendly frying pan, preferably with a non-stick ceramic coating.
4. Fry on both sides until aesthetically pleasing. beautiful crust. Garnish with parsley. Golden ones with onions and herbs are ready!
And such beauty, of course, will please the eye, and the taste will be unique and your loved ones will ask you to cook it more than once.
Potato pancakes without flour and without eggs
Well, for those who don’t want to add eggs and flour to this dish, I have prepared this option especially for you. He always saves me when I suddenly forgot that I ran out of flour in the house and didn’t buy eggs. It happens... oddly enough, this happens in our lives. Although I don’t specifically add eggs to this option, since I use starch, it replaces them.
Interesting! There are rumors that real potato pancakes are prepared exclusively without flour, and in general, in general, why add flour, it only drowns out the taste of the potatoes. Although it tastes better with it in my opinion. But it’s up to you to decide, in any case, the only thing I can say is that for whom calories are important, then of course do not use flour, it will be much lower in calories.
We will need:
- potatoes - 5-6 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- salt - to taste
- ground black pepper- taste
- potato starch- 1 tsp
- vegetable oil- for frying
Cooking method:
1. Grate peeled potatoes and onions. What is the best grater to grate potatoes? Of course, on a large one, onions too, by the way. Season with salt and pepper. Add starch. 
2. Now heat the frying pan and add vegetable oil to it. Place these round pancakes using a tablespoon. And fry them on both sides.
Important! To reduce splashes, you need to squeeze the dough through a sieve or cheesecloth.
3. Serve ready-made warm crispy pancakes without eggs with sour cream or adjika, or even ketchup. One of my friends actually makes ketchunese. He mixes mayonnaise and ketchup and the result is something interesting. My neighbor makes a sauce from vinegar, dilutes it with water, then adds garlic, and dips it in this tincture, so to speak.
How to cook potato pancakes with yeast
This variation uses ingredients like milk and yeast to give it a milky flavor. I suggest you watch this option in this video from the YouTube channel:
Potato and zucchini pancakes, lean
This option is truly summer or autumn. Zucchini is seasonal vegetable, you won't see it in winter. Therefore, we take advantage of the moment and prepare this dish now. These delicacies are delicious cold. Try it and you will like it.
Potato pancakes (deruny) in the oven
Potato pancakes baked with onions, or pancakes in other words, in the old days were prepared in the oven, in our time in the oven.
This option applies to dietary Lenten dishes, because it takes almost half as much oil as it would if you stood and fried in a frying pan. The advantage of this method of cooking is that you do not need to stand at the stove and make sure that nothing burns.
We will need:
- potatoes - 6-8 pcs.
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.
- onion - 1 pc.
- garlic - 2-3 cloves
- flour - 4 tbsp. l.
- salt and pepper to taste
- sunflower oil - 2 - 3 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
1. To prepare this potato dish, you will need a round bowl in which you will knead the dough. To do this, grate the potatoes on a coarse grater, then the onion. Afterwards, squeeze the ingredients a little with your hands so that the excess juice drips out. Add mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Break one egg.
2. Enter wheat flour, a couple of spoons or a little more, depending on what kind of potatoes you have.
3. Then dip your hands in cold water and mold it into a round, oval or long shape, or even into balls, these are the “cool things”.
Important! If you want there to be some piquancy in this dish, then top it finished product Chop the garlic, finely chopped.
4. Place on a baking sheet parchment paper for baking. Lubricate it with vegetable oil refined oil. And accordingly, place thin potato pancakes on it.
5. Bake these potato cakes for 20-25 minutes, the frying temperature should be approximately 200 degrees.
Important! During the cooking process, do not forget to carefully turn them over to another barrel after about 10 minutes.
Well, the dish is ready, I think it’s no worse than what Belarusians or our great-great-grandmothers cooked in the oven a long time ago. 😆 Serve with vegetables, or for example with vegetable stew.
Lazy pancakes in the oven
I’ve never cooked something like this before, but as it turns out it’s actually very simple, it turns out soooooooooooooooooooooopotato cake, And if you make it with mushrooms, and with fried onions or minced meat, carrots, oh, it will be just yum.
In a nutshell, you need to grate the potatoes, mix them with onions and place them in a baking dish and bake. And no more ingredients this is true classic dish does not contain. And most importantly, it’s delicious and also healthier than in a frying pan. The Americans call them hashbrown, and we Russians call them lazy.
If you want to learn in more detail and step by step how to cook such a miracle, look here, it gives an option for cooking in a frying pan:
Potato pancakes in a slow cooker
I will not describe this option in detail, for the simple reason that you can take absolutely any recipe as a basis and bake such delicacies in a multi-helper.
The only thing I want to say is that fry them in a bowl with well-heated vegetable oil at a temperature of 100-120 degrees, and select the mode with open lid"Frying."
Interesting! Many people make this dish stewed in sour cream, but I honestly haven’t tried frying it like that! I think it will be very soft and juicy.
For those who do not understand something or find it difficult to understand, watch this video:
That's all for me. See you on the blog! Everyone Have a good day and a bright, rosy mood!
P.S. Recently I learned ancient Russian-Belarusian, and maybe Ukrainian sauce to the pancakes, who knows what it really was like there. I share them with you my subscribers and blog guests.
This sauce is called machanka, such a funny name. 🙂 To do this, you need the following products, take them by eye: smoked or smoked sausage, rack of pork ribs, rendered lard And chicken leg. All these ingredients will need to be filled with a little water and added sour cream and herbs. And the main thing is to bake it in a pot in the oven until done. After everything is ready, dip the potato in this liquid and eat to your health. Well, gobble up all the remaining ingredients with pleasure.
Sincerely,
Draniki are a dish of Belarusian cuisine, which are pancakes made from grated raw potatoes. However, in other cuisines of the world there is a similar dish, only under different names: in Ukraine, pancakes are called pancakes, in the Czech Republic - bramborak, in Poland - plyatska. For this reason, there are also many recipes for making potato pancakes. We will tell our readers how to make proper potato pancakes and give best recipes, illustrated with their photos.
How to make potato pancakes correctly
At first glance, the technology for preparing potato pancakes is simple. This is true: even an inexperienced housewife can make them, but only if she knows a few important secrets. Otherwise, she may have many questions during the cooking process. To ensure that the result meets your 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, which contain a lot of starch. However, such varieties can also be found in Russia. If you think there is not enough starch in potatoes, you can buy it and add a little. Literally half a teaspoon.
- To prepare classic Belarusian potato pancakes, potatoes are crushed by grating on a fine grater with holes with sharp edges. You could say they grate potatoes - hence the name of the dish. Modern kitchen appliances Makes this process easier by using a food processor. Many housewives grate potatoes on a coarse grater, and as a result, the pancakes, as can be seen in some of the photos below, also turn out appetizing. But still, if you want to cook real potato pancakes, like in Belarus, you need to use a fine grater.
- It may turn out that the grated potato mixture is too liquid. In this case, it must be squeezed out.
- Some housewives are trying to thicken potato mass, adding flour to it. This is the wrong choice because it results in hard pancakes. If you want to get tender potato pancakes, you can thicken the “dough” only with starch.
- To prevent the pancakes from darkening, add chopped onion to the potato mixture.
- To add piquancy, many housewives add garlic to potato pancakes, but very little is needed - one clove per kilogram of potatoes. The garlic is crushed with a press and mixed with the vegetable mass.
- To give potato pancakes an appetizing golden color, fry them in a hot frying pan in large quantities oil (its layer should be approximately 3 mm).
- To speed up the process, you can cover the pan with a lid. Many experienced housewives pancakes are fried in two frying pans at once.
- After frying, it is advisable to place the potato pancakes on paper napkins so that they can be glassed excess oil, and only then transfer them to a plate. This way they will be less caloric, and they will be more pleasant to eat.
- Draniki are most often served with sour cream, but you can use any other sauce, including lean sauce.
- The pancakes are eaten hot; if you have prepared too many of them, you can heat the pancakes in the microwave or oven before serving the cooled portion.
- You can prepare potato pancakes either from potatoes alone or with the addition of other products: apples, mushrooms, meat. In Belarusian cuisine there is unusual recipe pancakes with meat, such pancakes are called sorcerers. Below we present their recipe, accompanied by a photo.
Most potato pancake recipes involve the use of eggs, but there is a recipe without them. We will also tell our readers how to prepare lean potato pancakes without eggs 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 be needed.
How to cook:
- Wash, peel and grate the potatoes. Squeeze to remove 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, place the potato mixture in the pan. You need to spread it out with a tablespoon, then you will get the desired size.
- Fry on each side for about 5 minutes.
- Place on a napkin to drain the oil, then transfer to plates.
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- taste;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
How to do:
- Peel the potatoes and grate them on a fine or coarse grater. Squeeze it out to make it drier.
- Grate or very finely chop a couple of peeled onions with a knife and mix with the potatoes.
- Beat in the egg.
- Add some salt and pepper.
- Fry in a large amount of oil in a very hot frying pan: first fry on both sides over medium-intensity heat for 2-3 minutes, then keep for 5 minutes under the lid on low heat so that the potato pancakes are baked.
It will be easier to fry such potato pancakes if you grate the potatoes not too finely. Needed for this variety with high content potatoes - these are often grown on Belarusian soil. If you follow tradition, it is better to serve such pancakes with sour cream.
Lenten 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 much as needed.
How to do:
- Peel the potatoes. Grate half the potatoes on a fine grater, the other half on a coarse grater. Stir.
- Add remaining ingredients (except oil) and mix again.
- Fry until golden crust in boiling oil.
You can serve these 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 and mix.
- Beat the eggs into the fruit and vegetable mixture, add salt and pepper.
- Fry in oil in a hot frying pan.
You shouldn’t be afraid of such a strange combination at first glance as potatoes and apples - almost everyone likes potato-apple pancakes, and their taste can safely be called harmonious.
With meat (sorcerers)
What do you need:
- potatoes – 1.5 kg;
- chopped meat– 0.3 kg;
- onion – 150 g (2 pcs.);
- chicken egg – 1 pc.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- vegetable oil - as much 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, stir.
- Mix the second part of the onion with minced meat.
- Add garlic passed through a press to the potato mixture.
- Salt and pepper both the potatoes and the minced meat.
- Transfer the potato mixture into gauze folded in several layers, place it in a bowl, and squeeze the potatoes through it. Do not throw out the squeezed water, but let it settle. After upper layer Drain off the liquid and add the sediment back to the potatoes.
- Beat the egg into the potato mixture. Mix well.
- Place a spoonful of potato mixture on your hand and form into a flat cake.
- Place a spoonful of minced meat on top, smooth it out, not reaching about 1 cm from the edges.
- Add another spoonful of potato mixture, level it, compacting it so that it completely covers the minced meat. Seal the edges.
- Place in a hot frying pan with boiling oil. When the frying 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 hearty dish. In Poland, zeppelins are prepared from approximately the same products, but the method of 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 much as needed.
How to do:
- Chop mushrooms and onions small pieces, fry them in oil until the excess liquid evaporates.
- Grate the potatoes, beat the egg into them, add flour, salt, pepper, mix.
- Mix with mushrooms.
- Fry like regular pancakes.
These pancakes are also served with sour cream. However, if you are fasting or do not eat animal products, you can replace the egg with a teaspoon of starch, and sour cream with lean mayonnaise.
Potato fritters Can also be prepared with cheese. To do this, after they are ready, sprinkle them with finely grated cheese, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for several minutes.
Elena Pronina
Potato pancakes are a well-known dish, for which there are many recipes. Let's see how to make quick and very tasty potato pancakes using this simple recipe.
Draniki are one of the most famous dishes Belarusian cuisine, which has taken root far beyond the borders of this country. In Russia, this is also one of the very popular favorite dishes, which is why there are so many recipes for its preparation today - each housewife prepares them in her own way, trying to please loved ones and please their tastes.
In this recipe we will tell you about a simple and very quick basic recipe making potato pancakes, which, having mastered, you can subsequently change the recipe to your taste, adding certain products.
Potato pancake recipe
Photo: naeshsya.org
4 potato tubers
2 eggs
4 tbsp
flour
vegetable oil for frying
pepper, salt
How to make potato pancakes:
Peel and wash the potatoes, grate them on a fine grater, or grind them in a meat grinder.
Place the chopped potatoes in a deep dish, add flour, salt and pepper, mix well.
Place the prepared potato mixture in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil using a tablespoon, fry the potato pancakes on both sides until golden brown. Serve pancakes with any sauce to taste,!
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After frying, you can place the pancakes on a paper towel - it will absorb excess fat, and the dish will be less heavy in calories.
Friends, do you usually add something when frying potato pancakes - cheese, garlic, herbs, etc., or do you prefer to cook them according to this basic recipe? Share with us your opinion regarding the preparation of potato pancakes in the comments.
Video recipe for making pancakes Draniki are the most famous Belarusian. They were first mentioned in 1830 by Jan Šytler. And the dish appeared under the influence of German cuisine.
As a result, potato pancakes have become one of the most popular dishes at different nations. Recipes for potato pancakes can be found in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish and Eastern European cuisines. Only in Belarus they are called draniki, in Israel latkes, in Russia as kakorki, and in Ukraine they are called potato pancakes, tertyukhi, karemzlyk.
Draniki are a simple and very tasty dish. Its preparation does not take much time, money and effort. There are quite a few ways to prepare potato pancakes. Minced meat or squeezed cottage cheese can also be added to the dish. One way or another, first of all, it’s better to learn how to cook traditional potato pancakes.
How to cook potato pancakes?
The recipe is quite simple. For the dish you will need 8 potatoes, 2 eggs, vegetable oil for frying, sour cream and salt.Clean raw potatoes, rinse it thoroughly and grate it on a medium grater. In principle, if you wish, you can grate it on a fine grater, depending on your preferences. It is better to use potatoes to make potato pancakes crumbly varieties. This will not give a lot of juice, so you won’t need to squeeze out the grated mass and add flour. And if the need nevertheless arises, then you can get by with 1-2 tablespoons of flour.
How to cook pancakes?
Drain the grated potatoes in a pre-prepared colander and leave for a while until the juice drains. If the mass is grated on a fine grater, then you can use gauze or a fine strainer. It is better to collect the juice in a separate container. We collect the starch that has precipitated and add it back to the potatoes. All these procedures must be done quickly before the vegetable darkens.
Experienced cooks advise adding a little vinegar to potato pancakes to prevent the potatoes from darkening. However, some claim that vinegar makes the pancakes tough and suggest soaking the potatoes in cold water. To speed up the cooking process and not wait for the potatoes to get wet, you can rub the vegetable in a container of water. After this, the potato pancakes turn out soft and fluffy, and besides, there is no excess starch in the product.
At the next stage, we start frying the potato pancakes. This is best done on a hot sunflower or olive oil, V cast iron frying pan with a thick bottom. It is worth noting that there should not be very much oil, but enough to cover the bottom of the pan well. Carefully place the potato pancakes into the frying pan. It is best to scoop the dough with a tablespoon so that the potato pancakes turn out to be the same shape. Fry each pancake on both sides over medium heat for 2-3 minutes until golden brown. After this, reduce the heat, cover the pan with potato pancakes with a lid and bring to readiness. This will take another 3-4 minutes.
According to the classic recipe, such potato pancakes should be served with sour cream. Draniki can satisfy anyone's taste. To whom classic version not to your taste, you can choose another recipe. However, pancakes are prepared in them traditional method, just added to them all kinds of fillings and sauces.
For example, potato pancakes can be served with mushroom sauce, garlic sauce (here you just add vegetable oil to chopped garlic, boiled water and salt), with fried onions and cracklings, tomato sauce or adjika, with simple mayonnaise, with sour cream and cheese, red caviar or vegetables.
Everyone can choose their own recipe or try all the options and come up with their own.
How to cook potato pancakes with meat?
Cooking potato pancakes with meat correctly is not difficult. In Belarus they claim that favorite dish Even children can do it. The dish will require 300 grams of minced meat (beef and pork), 1 onion, 6-8 large potatoes, 2 eggs, 1-2 tablespoons of flour, salt, pepper, vegetable oil and sour cream.Draniki with meat (pyzy)
Peel the potatoes and grate them on a fine grater. Add flour, salt and pepper to taste, as well as eggs. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
For meat filling take minced meat, salt and pepper, add finely chopped onion and mix everything well. By the way, you can add a little water to the minced meat.
Next, heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and place the potato dough in the form of pancakes on it using a spoon. For one pancake you will need 1.5-2 tablespoons of mass, although you can choose the size to your taste.
While the potato pancake is frying, make a small flat cake from the minced meat and place it on top potato pancakes, and then fill it with one tablespoon of potato dough.
Fry pancakes on one side until golden brown. After this, turn the pancakes over, cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and bring to readiness. This will take approximately 5-6 minutes.
Beetroot pancakes (pancakes)
Instead of potatoes, you can take other vegetables, it will turn out no less tasty and just as healthy. For beet pancakes take two medium beets (400 grams), 4 tablespoons of flour, 1 egg and salt.Grate the beets on a coarse grater, add egg, flour and salt. Spoon the dough into the pan and bake the pancakes.
It is best to cook them over low or medium heat so that they are thoroughly cooked. The cooking process will take at least 20 minutes (for baking on both sides). And if you grate the vegetables on a well-aimed grater, the potato pancakes will bake faster and have smooth edges. After frying, it is best to place the pancakes on a paper towel to drain excess fat.
It is worth noting that beet pancakes have a pleasant caramel, sweetish taste. They can be eaten as a snack for the first course or used as bread. They are delicious with garlic sauce or sour cream.
The editors of uznayvse.ru wish you bon appetit and culinary success in preparing your favorite dishes.
