Hash browns are a culinary product that occupies one of the main places among Russian dishes. They are fried cakes made from batter based on eggs and flour. But back in the old days, people tried to add variety to their diet and used not quite ordinary products for cooking famous dishes. For example, semolina fritters were prepared by adding cereals to a standard recipe. The product changed its appearance and acquired a new unusual taste.
Useful addition
Semolina fritters can be cooked in water, milk or kefir. Not only the consistency, but also the nutritional value of the product will depend on this.
For example, you can consider one of the options when semolina fritters are obtained by using the following components: a glass of wheat flour requires half a liter of milk, a little salt, 3 raw eggs, 100 grams of semolina, 50 grams of sugar and a tablespoon of dried yeast.
Preparing fritters from semolina as follows:
- The first step is to sift the flour.
- Then mix all bulk components in one container.
- In the middle, make a small depression and pour in a little warmed milk. After this, the products must be mixed until smooth with a mixer.
- Cover the container with a napkin and preferably put in a warm place for two hours. This time is needed so that the cereal can swell a little.
- Bake in a hot skillet with sufficient vegetable oil. First, one side is fried until small holes appear on the surface of the workpiece and it no longer appears moist. After this, the pancakes can already be turned over.
Ruddy products can be hidden on a plate and served immediately with sour cream, honey or butter.
No flour
Some people think that flour is an essential ingredient, without which it’s impossible to cook dishes such as pancakes and pancakes. But this is not quite the case. It is easy to refute such a mass error if you try to cook semolina pancakes or pancakes without flour, replacing it with another cereal.
In this case, the following set of components is suitable: for 0.5 liters of kefir 3 eggs, a glass of semolina and oatmeal, 50 grams of sugar, 12 grams of drinking soda and 50-70 grams of vegetable oil.
Fritters without flour are made very simply:
- Both cereals must be mixed in a bowl, and then pour them with kefir and leave for a couple of hours to swell.
- Beat the egg separately, adding sugar, soda and salt to it.
- Combine both mixtures, add oil and make final kneading.
After that, moderately thick dough is already fully ready for work. If it spreads very much during the work, then the next time you can just take a little more semolina. Now the pancakes can be baked in the usual way in a well-heated skillet.
A budget option
If the house runs out of flour, and there is simply no money to buy eggs, then do not lose heart. These temporary difficulties will not prevent the housewife from preparing delicious semolina pancakes for breakfast , the recipe of which will consist of the following products: 200 milliliters of kefir, 4 grams of soda, 200 grams of semolina, a dessert spoon of lemon juice, a little salt and vanilla, as well as vegetable oil.
The dish is cooked very quickly:
- First, kefir needs to be heated to about 40 degrees.
- Add semolina to it, mix and leave for 20 minutes in this condition.
- Introduce soda slaked with lemon juice, sugar and vanillin. Stir the ingredients thoroughly so that the dough is almost uniform.
- Heat the oil in a pan, and then gently spread a mass with a tablespoon, leaving sufficient spaces between the workpieces. This is necessary so that the pancakes do not stick together during the frying process.
To remove excess fat, finished products must first be placed on a napkin or paper towel. Serve pastries better with yogurt or sour cream.
Semi-finished fritters
A good hostess knows that semolina is not only a nutritious breakfast, but also a great basis for delicious pastries. It is worth remembering to those who have small children. If the child refused to eat porridge, then do not scold him for this and throw away the product. The finished dish can be used as a semi-finished product. Semolina pancakes are prepared very quickly and without much effort.
For work, you can use the following recipe: 200 grams of thick porridge 2 teaspoons of sugar, 125 grams of yogurt, 60 grams of wheat flour and half a teaspoon of slaked soda.
The whole process takes place in three stages:
- First, porridge should be ground with yogurt, and then gradually add flour until the mixture acquires the desired consistency of thick sour cream.
- Introduce the remaining components and mix well.
- Now all that remains is to heat the oil in a pan and bake the pancakes on both sides until a characteristic crust appears.
If the baby refused porridge, then he will eat such a dish with pleasure.