Surely every potato lover knows such a dish as potato pancakes. Despite the fact that there was a potato in South America, a world-famous delicacy, potato pancakes with minced meat, originally from Belarus. The dish got its name from the old Russian word "tear", which translates as "rub." Grated potato fritters are found in the cookbooks of many countries: in Ukraine - potato pancakes, in Prague - bramboraki, Lithuanian housewives are cooked by teruns, in Belarus - sorcerers. In Russia, the dish is more commonly called pancakes.
Today we offer you to cook potato pancakes with minced meat. These are delicious pancakes from raw grated potatoes, with a crispy fragrant crust, hearty, lush and rosy. It seems to many that this dish is the flight of a culinary craft. In fact, the recipe is very simple and affordable even for novice housewives. Potato pancakes with meat are cooked very quickly, perfect for a family dinner or for receiving guests. There are two cooking options: in the oven and in the pan. We will analyze each of them.
Pancakes with minced meat in a pan
Before you begin to improve culinary skills and master the recipe, you must go to the store and purchase the necessary products for the dish. It can be safely called budget.
What is required
List of ingredients:
- Potatoes - 8 pieces.
- Minced meat (or meat) - 280 g.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- A pinch of salt.
- Chicken egg - 2 pieces.
- A tablespoon of wheat flour.
- Ground pepper.
- Sunflower oil.
Cooking method
In order to prepare potato pancakes with minced meat, you need to peel the potatoes, chop it in any way. The classic option is to grate the vegetable on a fine grater. Sometimes housewives, in order to save their time, use a meat grinder to chop potatoes. But it should be noted that the forcemeat in this case is more uniform and pasty. Still, potato pancakes are grated potato pancakes. It is thin slices of potatoes that give the beloved by many a characteristic crunch.
If meat was taken for cooking, then it must be scrolled in a meat grinder twice. So the stuffing will become more tender. If the finished product was taken, then it must be salt and pepper. Mix well. If the minced meat is a little dry, then you can add a couple of tbsp. l cream or fat milk. As for onions, we add it to the minced meat, twisting at the same time as the meat, or we throw it into the finished product in the form of small cubes.
In grated potatoes, add two chicken eggs, a little salt, favorite spices. Sometimes housewives put dried greens in potato pancakes with minced meat, but it is better to add fresh, as it gives a more intense aroma. It is very important to remember that grated potato quickly gives a lot of liquid, so it is recommended to squeeze it before adding additional ingredients.
How to cook minced potato pancakes
Beginning housewives are not afraid of the process of preparing classic pancakes. Everyone understands that it is necessary to form pancakes from potato mass, put them in hot oil, fry from 2 sides, season with sour cream and serve. But the fact that a piece of minced meat got inside the potato mass remains a mystery to many. In fact, everything is very simple.
We put a potato pancake in a standard size pan, only make it a little thinner than usual. Then on top of the potato pancakes we place a thin pancake made of minced meat. It remains only to cover the stuffing with a second thin pancake and you can turn it over. The bottom first layer of the potato mass is already fried while you add the top layers. After frying potato pancakes with minced meat, it is recommended to put it on a paper towel or a layer of napkins to remove excess oil.
Draniki in the oven
Draniki are very tasty and incredibly tender, if you send them not to the pan, but to the oven. This recipe will appeal to those who love potatoes, but in the form of fried slices or mashed potatoes, she is already tired. In addition, cooking in the oven will slightly “ease” the calorie content of pancakes, as it will exclude the use of large amounts of vegetable oil.
Essential Products
List of ingredients:
- 350 g of minced meat.
- 600 g of potatoes.
- One chicken egg.
- 60 ml of kefir.
- A couple of tablespoons of flour.
- Fresh greens of dill.
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Oil grows.
- Salt.
- Spice.
Cooking dough and minced meat
As we mentioned above, vegetable oil in this recipe will be used in minimal quantities. It is useful only for frying onions, which should first be cut into small cubes. Mix the fried onion with the prepared minced meat, add a little salt, your favorite spices for meat (coriander, curry, ground black pepper, suneli hops). Fry the prepared filling for potato pancakes with minced meat over low heat for 8-12 minutes. Fresh or dried greens can be added to the fried minced meat.
We start cooking potato dough. In a large deep dish, break the chicken egg, sift the flour, add kefir. Pour salt and pepper as desired and taste. Add finely chopped dill. Mix thoroughly. And right into the resulting mass, we begin to rub the potatoes on a fine grater. Since we will prepare potato pancakes with minced meat in the oven, squeezing potato grated is not necessary.
Roasting process
Cooking a baking sheet. It can be covered with parchment paper or just greased with a small amount of vegetable oil. We form round pancakes from the dough. This can be done using a spoon or a special round baking dish. The thickness of the first layer of potato pancakes should be about 0.4 cm. We spread on the potato layer exactly the same thickness layer of minced meat, cover with a second potato pancake.
If you use for cooking special baking dishes of round size, then we put all the layers directly into the mold, then we lift it, freeing the potato pancakes. If there is no time to use the mold or form a three-layer “pie”, then minced meat pancakes can be prepared in a simpler way. Potato and minced meat are mixed together, the necessary spices, aromatic herbs are added. From the resulting mass we form draniki with our hands, put them on a baking sheet and bake.
While the dish is forming on the baking sheet, the oven should already be warming up. The temperature is 190 degrees. Cooking time for minced meat pancakes is 30 minutes. To determine that the dish is ready, you can blush on the bottom layer of potato pancakes. Once it is browned, the oven can be turned off.
Potato pancakes are served either with sour cream, or with fresh dill, or decorated with mayonnaise. To serve and decorate a dish, you can use a regular plastic bag, in which a couple of spoons of thick mayonnaise are applied. Cut the corner of the packet, squeeze out the mayonnaise picture.
Today we told how to cook potato pancakes with minced meat. Both of the presented recipes are simple and affordable even for novice housewives. Draniki is a dish that allows you to experiment with both serving and a list of ingredients. You can add not only minced meat to them, but also vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and so on. There are a lot of options and examples of culinary experiments with pancakes. And you can always increase their number.