The most popular dishes of Russian cuisine are cabbage soup, porridge and pancakes. Since childhood, many people have a favorite treat - pancakes and pancakes. This simple and inexpensive meal can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even those who care about their figure can calmly have breakfast in pancakes, a couple of pieces of lush pancakes in the morning will not increase those extra pounds, and you can get enough of them until lunch. There are many recipes for preparing this delicious dish. How to make pancakes, you will learn from this article.
The history of the appearance of fritters in Russia
Since ancient pagan times, pancake was considered the image of the sun. During the winter, the Slavs baked pancakes and pancakes, rejoicing in the spring warmth and the sun - a rare guest in the winter. The tradition of baking pancakes and pancakes on Maslenitsa is still preserved in Russia. In the past, every housewife had special storage utensils and cast-iron pans for baking pancakes and fritters.
The simplest recipe for this dish consisted of flour, water, sugar, salt and yeast. From these ingredients, you can cook pancakes even in Lent. In addition, it is allowed to cook a variety of dish options, adding other products to the recipe. For example, sour cream, kefir, milk, grated apple or make exotic pancakes with the addition of orange zest.
Pancakes and pancakes: what is the difference?
The difference between pancakes and pancakes is in size, the pancake is larger in diameter, but thin, the pancake is small and lush. Pancakes can be baked with flavors, such as fried onions or various fillings - both sweet and hearty (meat, fish, caviar and cheese). Hash browns are usually a sweet dish. They are served with honey, jam, sour cream and condensed milk. In rare cases, unsweetened toppings such as mushrooms or onions are served. Before making pancakes, you need to prepare all the ingredients and choose a pan for baking.
Lean fritters recipe
Since pancakes and pancakes are a very high-calorie product, when consumed in fasting they will help saturate the body, so for a long time you can forget about the desire to eat, which is very important on fasting days when you need not to think about food, but rather take care of spiritual food.
The writer Ivan Shmelev in his work “The Summer of the Lord” has a mention of buckwheat pancakes - sinners with which his family ate during Lent. The recipe itself is not indicated in the book, since it was a fairly common dish of lean cuisine at that time.
Fritters "Sinners"
Pancake dough for Lent:
- buckwheat flour - three tablespoons;
- rye flour - three tablespoons;
- wheat flour - one and a half cups;
- granulated sugar - two tablespoons;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- dry yeast - two teaspoons;
- sunflower oil - four tablespoons;
- warm water - about 600 ml.
You can adjust the amount of ingredients, if necessary. Before making pancakes and kneading dough, water must be boiled. Then mix together rye and buckwheat flour, pour one glass of boiling water and mix well. Leave this mixture for ten minutes to swell. Add sugar, salt and yeast to the swollen dough, dilute with warm water and knead sour cream until thick. Put the dough in a warm place without drafts to lift.
When the dough rises, add wheat flour, sunflower oil and the remaining water. Knead well, let rise warm again. While the dough rises on the pancakes, you can cook a lean filling. Fritters "Sinners" make not sweet, but satisfying. Fried onions, mushrooms and spices are suitable for this. Fried foods are added directly to the dough, let it rise again and fried in a cast-iron pan, spreading the dough on it with a tablespoon.
Kefir pancakes
The kefir-free fritters made with kefir are much healthier than yeast, they are easier for digestion and less caloric. In addition, the preparation of such fritters is faster, so they are very good for breakfast. To make delicious pancakes on kefir, you can use the following recipe:
- wheat flour - 1 cup;
- kefir - 1 cup;
- chicken eggs - 1 piece;
- granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- salt and soda - half a teaspoon;
- sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons.
Beat the egg with sugar and pour kefir, mix well. Then add salt and sunflower oil to the mixture, mix with a whisk again. Separately mix soda with flour and add to the kefir mixture. Mix well so that there are no lumps, let the dough stand for better mixing of the ingredients.
To get delicious pancakes on kefir, you need to properly heat the pan, add a little vegetable oil to it and spread the dough with a tablespoon. Fry the pancakes until cooked on both sides. Serve with jam, sour cream or honey.
How to cook pancakes if there are no eggs in the house
How to make pancakes, if the refrigerator runs out of eggs, and go to the store far? Everything is very simple. Egg fritters recipes come to the rescue. For such a dish, products such as sour milk, kefir, banana or cottage cheese are suitable. When cooking fritters on yeast, you can do without eggs.
Sour milk recipe
For cooking you will need:
- two glasses of sour milk;
- one tablespoon of granulated sugar;
- salt to taste;
- one glass of wheat flour;
- half a teaspoon of soda;
- three tablespoons of sunflower oil.
When soda is added to sour milk, the latter will froth a little, because when exposed to an acidic environment, soda will be extinguished, as when mixing it with vinegar. Then you need to add granulated sugar and salt, and sift the flour into the mixture through a sieve in order to enrich it with oxygen and get fluffy milk pancakes. Knead the dough until thick sour cream and add vegetable oil.
Heat the pan over a high heat and grease it with a small amount of oil. Put the dough in a hot skillet and reduce heat. Bake until cooked on both sides. To add splendor to the pancakes in milk, you need to cover the pan with a lid for several minutes. You can serve the finished dish with jam or jam.
Banana and Oatmeal Fritters
Another original recipe for egg-free fritters consists of kefir and banana. Such pancakes are very fond of small children. In addition, such a recipe is suitable for those who follow a diet, because instead of flour, oatmeal is put in the dough, which gives a lot of energy and vigor, and the calorie content of the dish is noticeably reduced.
- banana - 3 pieces;
- kefir - 2 glasses;
- oatmeal or oatmeal - 1.5 cups;
- bran at will;
- soda - on the tip of a knife;
- flower honey - 100 grams.
Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder to a state of flour. You can also use ready-made oatmeal by buying it in a store. It is very useful to replace some of the oatmeal with bran. Bananas should also be crushed to a puree state. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, if desired, you can add raisins or grated apple. To reduce calories, you can bake pancakes in a non-stick pan without oil, under the lid.
Recipes for yeast fritters
The most delicious yeast pancakes are lush, the recipe for such crumpets can include a wide variety of products. You can make dough in milk, sour cream, kefir, cottage cheese and just on the water. Everyone can choose a recipe to their taste and a selection of products available.
The most important thing is to observe the temperature regime while raising the dough, to prevent drafts, to cook with a soul and in a good mood. Then you get lush pancakes on yeast. The recipe is quite simple:
- wheat flour - two glasses;
- water or milk - one and a half glasses;
- dry yeast - five grams;
- granulated sugar - one tablespoon;
- salt - half a teaspoon.
Mix the yeast with warm and sweet milk or water, let stand for a while to start the action of the yeast. Then add wheat flour sifted through a sieve, mix well. Put in heat for thirty minutes. When the dough rises, you can bake pancakes in a well-heated pan with a little sunflower oil. Serve with sour cream, condensed milk or jam.
Another option for post fritters
It is very easy and simple to prepare lean pancakes using yeast. On fasting days, do not eat eggs, meat and dairy products. Therefore, such pancakes should not contain milk and eggs in the recipe. You can fry them in a non-stick pan without using vegetable oil. Cooked pancakes in this way can be eaten even on strict fasting days, when not only dairy products, but also vegetable oil are prohibited.
- water - 2 glasses;
- flour - 4 glasses;
- granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- salt - a pinch;
- dry yeast - 10 grams.
Mix yeast with warm, sweet water. Let stand to start the action of the yeast, then add salt and flour. Knead everything properly, let the dough rise for an hour.
How to bake pancakes in a pan correctly? It is necessary to heat the pan with a non-stick coating well, then reduce the heat. Spread the dough with a tablespoon in a pan and fry over low heat. Dough spoon should be periodically dipped in a bowl of hot water so that the dough does not stick to it. For lean pancakes, you can serve jam or honey. Dairy products will not work.
Yeast-free dough
Those who don’t like to spend a lot of time preparing food are well-suited for fritters without yeast. There are a lot of options for such dishes. The most common recipe for fritters in milk, when they become lush through the use of soda. Ingredients:
- half a liter of milk;
- two glasses of flour;
- one teaspoon of soda;
- the same amount of salt;
- sugar to taste.
Stir all the ingredients in a bowl, let stand for five minutes and fry. This is one of the quickest and easiest recipes. Ideal for making breakfast, and for owners of a slim figure you get a good and tasty dinner.
It’s very useful to prepare such food as pancakes if there are products with expiring shelf life in the refrigerator. It is impossible to eat completely expired products in any case, this can cause a serious illness, but if kefir, milk, cottage cheese or sour cream expires, then you just need to use them to make fritters.
Fritters on sour cream without yeast
The perfect breakfast is a couple of lush hot pancakes. Cooking them fast, and eating them is delicious. You can serve them with jam or honey.
- sour cream (which is in the refrigerator, of any fat content) - 100 grams;
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- soda - on the tip of a knife;
- granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- wheat flour - 100 grams.
Beat eggs with sugar, for splendor you can first beat only the yolks with sugar, and add the whipped salt with the whites at the end of the dough. Then add sour cream to the beaten yolks and mix, add the sifted flour, soda, quenched with vinegar, and flour. Thoroughly mix with a whisk all the lumps of flour, bring the dough to a state of homogeneous mass and carefully mix the whites with salt whipped separately with salt. Let stand a little and bake in a hot pan with a small amount of sunflower oil.
When making pancakes on sour cream, it is important to pay attention to the consistency of sour cream. If it is sufficiently liquid, then flour may need more than indicated in the recipe.
Cottage cheese (cheese cakes)
Such a useful product as cottage cheese can be used to make original pancakes. This very popular dish of Ukrainian and Russian cuisine is often used for baby food. Young children are reluctant to eat pure cottage cheese, and any baby, even with poor appetite, will eat cheese cakes.
For breakfast for a family of four you need to take:
- cottage cheese - 400 grams;
- chicken egg, average in size - 2 pieces;
- wheat flour - 1 cup;
- sugar must be put to taste, the cottage cheese can be fresh or sour, the amount of sugar that should be put in the curd cheese depends on it;
- vanillin.
Cottage cheese must be prepared - as it should knead with a fork so that the lumps remain as little as possible. Add eggs to the prepared curd and mix thoroughly. Then put sugar, vanillin and flour into the curd mixture. Put the last one until the dough is steep enough. But you can leave the dough and liquid, adding kefir to it, and bring to the consistency of sour cream, then it will be possible to fry the cottage cheese, like classic pancakes, putting them in a pan with a spoon.
If you like steep dough more, then you should form a resemblance of cutlets from it, put it on a hot frying pan and fry until cooked over low heat. Before removing from the stove, hold the cottage cheese under the lid. This version of fritters without soda and yeast is prepared quickly and easily. Cheesecakes can be served with sour cream, honey or condensed milk.