Sauce for potato pancakes is not an obligatory component, but with it an already delicious potato dish becomes even tastier. Of course, you can simply serve sour cream to the table, no one will refuse to dunk pancakes in this product. However, try to spend a little more time in the kitchen, and make a delicious sauce for potato pancakes. There are a lot of recipes, we decided to share with you the best - for every taste. Each sauce is prepared simply, the time to create one of them will take no more than 15 minutes, moreover, for the most difficult. Therefore, do not abandon such an undertaking!
Bell Pepper Cream Sauce
It tastes extraordinary sauce. It can be used not only for potato pancakes, but also for any meat dishes, side dishes, zraz. Preparing sauce for potato pancakes at a time, leaves the table also very quickly, so you need to cook it a little more.
It will be required from the ingredients:
- large bell pepper, preferably red, so the color of the sauce will turn out bright, elegant;
- a glass of milk;
- 50 grams of butter;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- seasonings (it is better to use spices from a mixture of dried herbs and vegetables, but it already has salt, so the previous item from the list can be removed);
- a tablespoon of flour.
Cooking cream sauce with bell pepper
If you once prepare such a sauce for potato pancakes, then you don’t want to do without such a delicious addition. In addition, it can be used for any dishes. Getting to the cooking process:
- Fry the flour in a pan until light brown.
- Put butter to it, melt.
- During this time, chop the bell pepper in strips. It should be sent to the pan when the butter melts well.
- When the pepper has softened, pour in the milk. Bring the mixture to a boil, remove from heat.
- Cool the sauce, then grind with a blender.
It turns out a dense mass in which slices of bell pepper are visible!
Mushroom sauce
This sauce is no worse than the previous one. Potatoes and mushrooms have long been known for their amazing combination. Therefore, there is hardly any one person who might not like mushroom sauce for potato pancakes. It is much better to cook it from a real ingredient brought from the forest. But dried mushrooms, as well as champignons, are great, although there is relatively little flavor in them.
From the ingredients we take:
- 200 grams of mushrooms;
- onion;
- three cloves of garlic;
- half a glass of cream;
- a quarter cup of soy sauce;
- ground black pepper and salt.
If you need a thicker sauce, you can add half a tablespoon of flour.
How to make mushroom sauce
If you use flour, then first you need to fry it in a dry frying pan, then remove, and add when the turn comes.
- Cut the mushrooms in any pieces, taking into account their further grinding in a blender.
- Onions can be given any shape, but garlic must be chopped, otherwise it will remain half raw.
- Pour a little sunflower oil into the pan, or melt 20 grams of butter. Fry the mushrooms first, juice should come out of them. Then add onion and garlic, fry until tender.
- If using flour, add it (the one that was fried), mix well.
- Pour in soy sauce and cream, bring the ingredients to a boil.
- Remove from heat, cool.
- Grind the sauce well with a blender.
Pour the cooked draniki sauce, or serve it in a separate bowl, so that it is convenient to dip into it. The spicy taste of seasoning can be given with the help of bay leaf and a few drops of lemon juice.
Sour cream sauce for pancakes
We offer to prepare this delicious addition to fried potato pancakes. But we will use not only one sour cream. With this sauce, potato pancakes will become not only a light snack, but also a full lunch or dinner. See for yourself by trying to cook them according to this recipe.
We will need:
- 200 grams of smoked salmon;
- a tablespoon of grated horseradish;
- a can of sour cream - 200 grams;
- green onions, dill, parsley.
Cooking is very simple, so we will not begin to clean it in a separate section. Follow the simple instructions:
- Salmon fillet must be cut into small pieces, but it is best to grind it in a blender.
- Add sour cream to the salmon.
- Finely chop the greens - choose the amount yourself, but the more the tastier.
- Mix all the ingredients well.
You can simply serve the sauce in a bowl or decorate the pancakes with it: put a piquant mass on each potato pancake, and put three grains of red caviar on top!
Some more simple sauces
Among the delicious recipes of sauces for pancakes, which are prepared even by experienced chefs, there are a few more. We suggest you try the following:
- Garlic. Mix in a bowl a jar of sour cream, five or more garlic cloves, passed through the press, and the mashed boiled chicken egg. You can add a little salt if desired. Serve pancakes with garlic sauce in separate plates, as not everyone likes spicy.
- Mixed. It turns out very delicious sauce made from: three tablespoons of sour cream, the same amount of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of mustard. But that’s not all, add grated pickles, two garlic cloves pressed through a press.
- Dietary. Mix natural yogurt with two minced cloves of garlic, beat with a blender.
Enjoy your meal!