The article talks about a simple but very spicy dish - cheese pancakes. General recommendations and tips on how to choose the ingredients and the most suitable cookware for frying are given. The general principles for the preparation of cheese pancakes and several recipes are described.
A string of cases, information flows, constant rush - are all familiar attributes of modern life, which more and more resembles an exhausting marathon race with an indefinite award at the finish. People began to communicate less with loved ones, increasingly preferring the screen of an electronic gadget to a live conversation.
The lack of time leaves its mark even on such a sacred action as food. A rushing person eats on the go or does not have time to eat at all, for example, limiting himself to a cup of coffee in the morning. Such eating behavior becomes a habit and causes troubles such as chronic lethargy during the day, digestive tract disease, and weight problems.
Changing eating habits is difficult, but certainly possible. Accustoming yourself to proper nutrition is much easier, using really tasty food for this. For example, a rare person is indifferent to pancakes. This Russian dish is perfect as a breakfast. There are dozens of options for sweet and unsweetened pancakes, but cheese pancakes are especially piquant.
Advantages
Hash browns are an extremely family dish. Already during cooking, their aroma spreads through the rooms, setting the whole family in a peaceful and pre-holiday mood. The smell of fresh pastries, the splendor and the wonderful taste of cheese pancakes help the household to forget about business for a while, set aside smartphones, distract from TVs and get together at one table.
This dish also has other advantages:
- Diversity. Fritters provide a lot of opportunities for culinary experiments, they can be made sharp, sweet, salty; with vegetables, fruits, meat, herbs; large, small, curly; Serve with sauces, jams, sour cream, ketchup.
- Practicality. Zealous housewives often prepare pancakes from sour milk and dried cheese, thereby preserving the products.
- Simplicity. Even a novice housewife will quickly master the recipe for cheese pancakes .
- Convenience. The fritters are convenient to carry in plastic containers, they are tasty even when cold, they can be baked in nature, taking dough with them in an airtight container.
- Utility. Fritters, like any baking, can hardly be called dietary food, depending on the products used, their calorie content is in the range of 250-300 kilocalories per 100 grams. However, with moderate consumption, they become a wonderful breakfast, which gives a boost of energy, improves mood, activates metabolism.
Ingredients
The following products will be required for cheese pancakes:
- Flour. The highest grade wheat is traditionally used, however, it is optionally replaced with buckwheat or corn flour.
- The eggs. The main selection criterion is freshness. Eggs play an important role in the preparation of the dough: they act as a baking powder, making baking fluffy and help to uniformly mix the ingredients together.
- Liquid base for the test. Cheese pancakes are baked in milk, water, kefir, fir, sour cream, whey, unsweetened yogurt.
- Filling. In the dough for pancakes with cheese, you can additionally add minced meat, herbs, mushrooms, sausage.
- Spices and seasonings. Essential spices are salt and sugar. If desired, add pepper, paprika, any favorite spices. Mayonnaise, sour cream, soy sauce and more are used as seasonings.
- To make the pancakes rise and remain lush, yeast, soda or a baking powder are added to the dough. They start a chemical reaction in an acidic environment. Its result is the intense release of bubbles of carbon dioxide, which is responsible for the splendor of baking.
- Cheese. Hard varieties are ideal, which are easy to grate and mix in the dough. But this is not important. You can use any cheese, even with mold. The main thing is that eaters like its taste, because the final dish will acquire all the flavoring shades of cheese.
Tableware
A good frying pan is the key to delicious pancakes. In the hands of a skilled housewife, the dish is obtained even on stamped frying pans with a thin bottom. But it is best to use cast-iron, steel or aluminum pans with a thick bottom, which ensures uniform heating. Quality pans with non-stick ceramic, teflon or titanium coating are very convenient. They require significantly less oil for baking, and the dough almost does not stick to them.
Size and shape are not critical. The larger the pan, the more the fritters fit on it at one time, the less time it takes to cook. However, working with massive dishes is harder. Therefore, the final choice depends on personal preferences, the amount of test and time. Very popular special pans with indentations. They allow you to bake pancakes with emoticons and funny faces, in the form of hearts, flowers and other various forms, this is very popular with children.
General principles of cooking
Cheese pancakes - a simple dish that does not take much time and energy. Its preparation is quickly mastered even by a person far from cooking. To do this, it is enough to follow a simple algorithm, observing the following principles:
- All ingredients should be at room temperature, then in the test a chemical reaction caused by a baking powder or soda is better. Therefore, eggs and a liquid base for the dough should be removed from the refrigerator ahead of time.
- Before kneading the dough, you need to sift the flour, preferably even twice. This will make the baking more airy.
- Baking powder or soda is added to the dough last. After this, the dough should be mixed and no longer bother until frying. If the dough starts to interfere, carbon dioxide bubbles will come out of it, and the pancakes will not rise well.
- The consistency of the quality test resembles a rather thick sour cream.
- The test must be allowed to stand for about half an hour before baking. This time is necessary for the chemical reaction to complete and flour gluten to swell.
- After this, you can begin to cook cheese pancakes in a pan, which must first be strongly calcined, and then add vegetable oil. You need to warm it up well, but do not overdo it, otherwise unpleasant bitterness appears in baking.
- Then, with a spoon or ladle, the dough is poured portionwise into the pan.
- Fritters are fried on both sides for several minutes.
Recommendations and Tips
There are several subtleties that will help to avoid the mistake typical for beginners and make cheese pancakes especially tasty and beautiful:
- Dough must be salted very carefully, remembering that they already have salted cheese.
- Do not use eggs more than what is written in the recipe, they make fritters unpleasantly "rubber".
- Excess soda or baking powder also spoils the taste of the dish.
- Fritters during cooking greatly increase in volume, so they should not be too close to the pan.
- It is advisable to put the finished pancakes first on a napkin to get rid of excess oil, and then on the dish in one layer, otherwise they quickly lose volume.
Cheese pancakes with greens on sour cream
Products:
- Flour - 1 cup.
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons.
- Eggs - 1 piece.
- Cheese - 100 grams.
- Greens - 10-20 grams.
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
- Salt, pepper, sugar - to taste.
Cooking:
- Mix eggs and sour cream.
- Add chopped greens. It can be parsley, basil, cilantro, dill.
- Pour grated cheese, salt, pepper, sugar and favorite spices into the dough.
- Add baking powder, mix and do not touch the dough until frying.
- Fry in a not very large amount of oil.
Cheese pancakes on kefir
Products:
- Flour - 1 cup.
- Kefir - 300 milliliters.
- Cheese - 150 grams.
- Egg - 1 piece.
- Soda - half a teaspoon.
- Sugar and salt to taste.
Cooking:
- Mix eggs, kefir and sifted flour.
- Add finely grated cheese, salt and sugar. Mix thoroughly again.
- Pour soda, mix, leave the dough alone for half an hour.
- Fry cheese pancakes in kefir in a pan in vegetable oil.
Fritters on milk
Products:
- Flour - 1 cup.
- Milk - 300 milliliters.
- Hard or semi-hard cheese - 100-200 grams.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
- Sugar and salt to taste.
Cooking:
- Stir the eggs in the milk until smooth, then add the flour.
- Pour grated cheese, salt and sugar into the dough.
- Add baking powder, mix and leave the dough for half an hour.
- Fry in the standard way.