Shrovetide is a wonderful holiday. This is not anywhere else in the world. And so many varieties of pancakes, like at Shrovetide, are unlikely to be seen anywhere. Sacks of spring rolls - an original and beautiful serving of a delicious dish. This option will be the central decoration on the festive table, not only on Shrovetide.
Absolutely any thin pancakes are suitable for the dish “bags of pancakes with filling” . Let's look at some good recipes.
Classic thin pancakes
To prepare them, you need: milk and flour - two glasses each, eggs - 2 pcs., A pinch of salt, half a tbsp. l sugar and vegetable oil.
Make enough liquid dough. Beat the eggs with salt, sugar, butter and milk, add the sifted flour and make sure that the mass is without lumps. If you beat by hand, at first it is better to make a thick dough, and then add a little milk to it. Then it will have a more uniform structure.
Heat a frying pan well, grease a little with oil and pour half a dough on it. It should spread well on the surface to make the most thin pancakes. Pouches stuffed with stuffing make the best of them.
Fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown. When folding, spread them with butter for softness and a richer taste.
Made from cornmeal
Such pancakes have a more piquant creamy taste and a beautiful sunny color. Necessary: a mixture of wheat and corn flour (half a glass per third of a glass), 1 tbsp. cream 10%, a pinch of salt and soda, a little sugar, 75 g butter.
Melt the butter in a saucepan, add it to the eggs and beat well with sugar, salt and soda. Continuing to stir, gently, in a thin stream, pour in the cream and add the sifted flour. Knead so that there are no lumps, and let it brew for about an hour, covered with cling film or a towel. Bake on a preheated, lightly greased frying pan on both sides.
To create a real holiday, you can cook colorful bags of spring rolls. In fact, it is not difficult, but it looks just great.
Beetroot Pancakes
To prepare bright red-pink pancakes you will need: one small beetroot, 2 eggs, a glass of flour and a glass of milk, a little sugar and salt, a spoonful of lemon juice and vegetable oil.
Grate the beets and squeeze the juice through cheesecloth, folded in three layers, add lemon juice. Beat obtained with eggs, sugar and salt until smooth. Add the sifted flour and knead the thick dough. Adding milk to the resulting mass, achieve a sufficiently liquid state and fry, as usual. Cook appetizer pancakes with mushrooms. The bags will come out in a very beautiful pink or red color (depending on the juiciness of beets). Real table decoration.
Spinach Pancakes
It will make beautiful soft green bags. You can use both fresh and frozen spinach. Take: a large bunch, one egg, a glass of milk and flour, a pinch of salt and a spoonful of sunflower oil. If desired, you can add herbal spices (Italian, Provencal), not more than a pinch.
Pound the spinach in a mortar to a mushy state or chop in a blender. Add to it the rest of the ingredients and knead in a homogeneous dough medium liquid. If you just chop the greens, then the color will not work out even, so try to grind everything well. Bake as usual.
Chocolate pancakes
Bags of spring rolls can also be made sweet. Bake a chocolate dessert with tovorog or fruit inside, and your children will be delighted.
Prepare the dough according to the classic recipe, just add 3 tbsp. l sugar and cocoa powder. Knead to the desired consistency and color, for a more saturated shade, add more cocoa. Fry in a hot pan for several minutes on each side. This dish will be an excellent substitute for any complex dessert.
You can cook many more different options for colored pancakes using natural products, such as carrots for orange, blueberries for lilac. You can also use food coloring if you wish. Just divide the finished dough into several parts and add a favorite color to each.
What's inside?
Use a wide variety of toppings to cook stuffed pancakes. Pouches differ from other folding methods in that they can retain a more liquid mass. Therefore, it is allowed to put salads in them, such as Olivier, with squid and seafood, meat and many others.
The most common filling for this dish is julienne, which can easily be wrapped in pancakes. Bags with chicken and mushrooms in cream sauce are very popular, because they are incredibly tasty.
They can also be stuffed with the following fillings:
- Lightly salted salmon and sour cream.
- Avocado, bacon and garlic.
- Curd plus greens.
- Chicken, mushrooms and cheese.
- Chicken with pineapple.
- Cottage cheese with raisins.
- Fruit in its own juice.
In fact, there are just a huge number of options, and they are limited only by your imagination.
Design Ideas
This dish is prepared very easily - the filling is placed in the middle of the pancake, and the edges are clamped on top, forming a bag, where the name of the dish comes from. There are several ways to fix them. The most popular is the onion stalk, which must be blanched before this to give it softness. He ties at the base of the pancake, holding back the edges. You can also tie a stalk of parsley or dill.
Another design option is fastening with braid threads from rennet cheese, a piece of nori or boiled noodles. If you have too tender a product for binding, and you are afraid that it will break, fasten the pancakes with a toothpick before this.
Try different options, and this dish will be a real masterpiece at any holiday.