Potato is the second bread. At least that’s exactly what we think in Belarus. Belarusians can cook a wide variety of dishes with potatoes, including potato pancakes. This is a delicious hearty dish, simple to prepare, but requiring some free time. I will tell you about how to cook potato pancakes, if of course you still have not learned how to do it.
How to cook potato pancakes
Draniki is a genuine Belarusian dish, although there is something similar in culinary art in other countries. So, in Ukraine, potato pancakes are called potato pancakes, in Russia - terunets, in the Czech Republic - bramoraki, and in America - hash brown. I repeat, these are only very similar dishes, but not the same thing. Interestingly, even in the case of cooking potato pancakes, a considerable number of recipes were developed. Someone thinks that potato pancakes can only be made from potatoes that have been grated on a very fine grater. There are those who do the opposite, i.e. for baking dishes uses only potatoes, grated on a coarse grater. It is also interesting that even the potato mass itself is of three types. Tarkovannaya potato mass, which is most often used for the preparation of potato pancakes, blade mass (strain the potatoes), as well as boiled mass. Boiled potato pancakes are also very tasty and satisfying. Well, let's look at how to make potato pancakes.
Method 1
We will need fresh carrotol, salt, flour. Wash the potatoes, peel them and grate on a fine grater. If you have very little time left, you can entrust this process to a blender or food processor, but I’ll say right away that the pancakes will have a completely different taste, even with a slight bitterness. So decide for yourself. After the potatoes are chopped, you need to immediately start frying, otherwise it will darken. Do not forget to add salt and a little flour to taste (for density), although I usually fry pancakes without flour.
Preheat the pan and spread the potato mass on it with a spoon, fry on both sides until golden. Serve potato pancakes with sour cream or greasy fry.
Method 2
And now I’ll talk about how to cook potato pancakes according to an improved recipe. Take a kilogram of potatoes, one onion, carrots and an egg, three tablespoons of table flour, vegetable oil, salt, a bunch of dill, salt.
Preparation: Grate potatoes on a fine grater, add finely chopped onions, carrots, dill to the mass, then an egg. Pour in flour and add salt to taste. Mix well. Bake potato pancakes in a preheated pan until golden brown. The dish will turn out very tasty and unusual. A special piquancy will give him carrots. Be sure to try.
How to cook potato pancakes, you already know. Have you heard that the exact same dish can be prepared from zucchini? Personally, I already tried to do this and, you know, I was satisfied. I didn’t think that zucchini pancakes could turn out so tasty.
Take two zucchini, three cloves of garlic, one egg, as well as pepper, flour and salt. Peel the zucchini, grate on the smallest grater. If the zucchini suddenly turns out to be too juicy, then the mass will have to be pressed a little. Add squeezed garlic to the squash mass, add salt, pepper, mix well and add one egg. Everything mixes well again, add as much flour to make zucchini dough as thick sour cream. Bake in a preheated pan until golden brown. Serving zucchini pancakes is also possible with sour cream.
As you can see, making potato pancakes is not so difficult. It’s just that a certain amount of time will have to be spent on preparing the shingles, but otherwise the whole process happens quite quickly.