Every day, many housewives plan what to cook for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Preference is given to dishes, both tasty and healthy, and so that cooking takes a little time. Of course, for those who sit at home, you can make a dish with a long cooking time. But often other household chores, laziness do not allow to do this.
Very often, many cook such a dish as pancakes with cheese. Mistresses choose them because they are tasty, healthy, quick to prepare. The ingredients used are always at hand.
In essence, potato pancakes are potato pancakes. There are many recipes for their preparation. For a change, you can add mushrooms of various types, any meat, zucchini, carrots, sausages, ham and so on. Unusual taste and aroma will add different varieties of mashed hard cheeses.
Fans of crispy and golden crust on potato pancakes are recommended to fry them with the addition of a large amount of oil. Be sure to heat the pan well. Well, for those who want to get a low-calorie dish, you don’t need to put a lot of oil.
Preparation for the process
First you need to choose the right amount of ingredients. All must be thoroughly washed and cleaned.
Potato, egg, flour, salt, oil, pepper, favorite seasonings, onions, garlic will be required.
Depending on the recipe, this or that ingredient is additionally added.
Well-washed potatoes (5 pieces) are peeled, then ground on a grater. You can use a meat grinder or a blender. It is important that you get a homogeneous gruel. Finely chopped onions (1 pc.) And garlic (2-3 cloves), salt, seasonings and pepper to taste are added to it. In order to achieve the desired consistency, flour (60 grams) is added. An egg is also added so that the mass does not separate. Everything mixes well.
To get delicious pancakes with cheese, you need mashed cheese itself (150-200 grams, preferably hard varieties).
Gently, with a spoon, the mass is laid out on a preheated pan in the form of pancakes. It is important that their thickness is about half a centimeter. In extreme cases, with a thin cake, the potato pancake may fall apart, with a thick one there is a chance that it will not be fried inside and will remain raw.
For three minutes, potato pancakes need to be fried on both sides over medium heat.
Serving dishes - always hot.
You can add various sauces and greens to the dish.
This recipe allows you to cook classic pancakes with cheese.
Original pancakes recipes
To diversify the menu, many housewives themselves come up with different recipes for pancakes with cheese. Let's consider some of them.
- Instead of potatoes, you can take zucchini as the basis. Only in this case it will be necessary to put more flour. Because zucchini contains more liquid than potatoes. You will need mashed zucchini (or passed through a meat grinder or blender), one onion, garlic, seasoning and salt to taste, grated cheese (200). Everything is mixed and fried. You can take zucchini and potatoes in proportion.
- In each recipe, the ingredients and their amount are almost the same. If you add mashed carrots to the classic recipe, you will get pancakes of an unusual orange color. If you add finely chopped mushrooms, the taste of the dish will become even richer and more aromatic. Adding minced fish, you can get a tasty, healthy and satisfying dish.
Draniki with cheese in the oven
For those who are not friends with fried foods, you can offer an alternative - cooking potato pancakes from the oven. First prepare the workpiece, as described above. The ingredients are the same (who like what). You need to bake pancakes in a preheated oven. The baking sheet is greased with oil, then potato pancakes are placed there. They are baked at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for about 15 minutes on the one hand and 5-7 minutes on the other.
Serve hot.
Afterword
Without a doubt, many people love potato pancakes with cheese. There are a lot of recipes. If you wish, you can come up with something of your own, original.
These pancakes are popular because they are easy to prepare, tasty and healthy.
It is important to properly serve the dish to the table. With the help of unusual sauces you can further emphasize the taste of potato pancakes.