Draniki with meat is one of the most common dishes of Belarusian cuisine. In everyday life, it has several names - these are potato pancakes and potato pancakes, but the essence does not change from this. When a hill of crispy potato pancakes seasoned with sour cream appears on the table, no one can resist it.
Classic potato pancakes
To begin, we will analyze the classic recipe for cooking potato pancakes with meat. For this we need:
- nine potatoes;
- 300 grams of a mixture of pork and ground beef;
- two chicken eggs;
- 200 grams of wheat flour;
- vegetable oil (it will be needed for frying);
- salt and spices to taste.
Draniki with meat is nowadays a traditional dish in Belarus, where they are called sorcerers, they are also loved by us. This dish has a special, unsurpassed taste, your friends and relatives of all ages will love it. Draniki will be appropriate for lunch or dinner, and even for a hearty and hearty breakfast before a difficult and eventful day.
Draniki turn out to be very satisfying and high-calorie. They help to say goodbye to hunger for a long time. There are many ways to cook potato pancakes with meat - in a pan, in a pot, in the oven.
Simple recipe
To prepare potato pancakes with meat, you need everything at hand. Wash the potatoes thoroughly, clean them and cut them into small pieces so that it is more convenient to grind them. To do this, take a food processor, grater or meat grinder.
When cooking potato pancakes with meat, never forget that the potato turns black if it comes into contact with oxygen for a long time. Therefore, you need to do everything quickly and efficiently.
Discard the maximum chopped potatoes in a colander, leave for a while over a bowl or sink to stack excess juice. If you want to speed up the process, you can remove the excess liquid yourself, armed with a tablespoon. If this is not done, the dish may be spoiled.
When we managed to get rid of potato juice, we transfer the whole mass to a deep bowl. Add eggs, pepper, salt and flour. Mix everything thoroughly. As a result, you should form a homogeneous mass.
According to the recipe for potato pancakes with meat in a pan, vegetable oil must be warmed up well in advance. With a large spoon, spread the mixture into the butter, kneading, give the shape of the fritters. To start, fry only on one side.
By this time, it is necessary to prepare the stuffing from minced meat. Ideally, the stuffing should be done independently. So you will be sure that there are no harmful additives in it. Pour the spices and mix the minced meat thoroughly. We spread a teaspoon in the center of each potato pancake, which is prepared in a frying pan. From above we cover the filling with a potato mass, as it should be leveled and knead. Only after that we turn the potato pancake over, fry it on the second side. Note that the dish must be cooked on minimal heat, only in this way the potato mixture will never burn, while at the same time it is well-fried.
When the potato pancakes are fried from all sides, put them on a paper towel to get rid of excess vegetable oil. Draniki are ready. The recipe is really simple. It is recommended to serve them hot with sour cream on the table.
Draniki in the oven
You can cook potato pancakes not only in the pan, but also in the oven. For this recipe you will need to take the following ingredients:
- 700 grams of potatoes;
- 300 grams of minced meat;
- 50 ml of kefir;
- one chicken egg;
- four tablespoons of flour;
- four tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- two onions;
- salt;
- spice;
- dill and parsley.
It will take about an hour and a half to prepare potato pancakes with meat. From the listed amount of ingredients should be 10-12 pieces.
How to cook potato pancakes with meat in the oven?
To get the dish, use several tricks from experienced chefs. For example, in order to bake the minced meat as much as possible, it is recommended to fry it in advance with herbs and onions.
For potato pancakes, take a deep container, break an egg into it and pour kefir. Sift the flour carefully. After adding spices and salt, mix everything thoroughly. Grate the potato on a coarse grater, squeeze out excess liquid and transfer to a bowl with flour and egg.
We grease the baking sheet with sunflower oil, put the potato dough in the form of fritters on it. Spread the layer of minced meat on top, and then another potato layer.
Draniki is baked in a preheated oven for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. They can be reached as soon as they become rosy.
Potato pancakes
Potato pancakes are another original way of cooking this beloved dish. For two servings, we need such a number of components:
- 500 grams of raw potatoes;
- 300 grams of pork;
- three onions;
- 50 grams of wheat flour;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 50 grams of ketchup (you can replace it with tomato paste if desired);
- one chicken egg;
- cooking oil for frying;
- butter to grease the pots themselves;
- ground black pepper and salt to taste.
Cooking in pots
We start cooking by rubbing the potatoes on a fine grater, and then add two tablespoons of flour to the resulting mass, break one egg, pepper and salt. If necessary, you can add a pinch of soda. Mix everything thoroughly.
We form pancakes from this mixture, which we fry until crisp. In parallel, fry the pork in another pan, after cutting it into small pieces. As soon as the meat is browned, finely chopped onions should be added, pepper and salt. When the onion is browned, pour in ketchup and sour cream, simmer for about five minutes under a closed lid.
We grease the pots with butter, put the potato pancakes in the first layer, meat with sauce on top, then potato pancakes again, and then the sauce again. We put the pots in the preheated oven for half an hour. Bake at 180 degrees.
Before serving, allow the dish to cool slightly.
Lazy potato pancakes
For those who do not like to spend too much time in the kitchen, but want to try real Belarusian draniki, there is a way out. You can cook lazy potato pancakes with meat. They are made even faster and easier than ordinary ones. In this case, the dish is fried in a pan.
For this recipe you must have on hand:
- six potatoes;
- 250 grams of minced meat;
- two onions;
- one chicken egg;
- one teaspoon of salt;
- a pinch of ground black pepper.
How to quickly make lazy pancakes
It doesn't take a lot of time to cook lazy potato pancakes. We clean the potatoes and pass through a meat grinder. If you want, you can rub it on a coarse grater, so you will spend a little more time.
Rub the onion on a fine grater and add to the stuffing. By the way, you can take any stuffing - pork, beef or mixed. Most experienced chefs and housewives are inclined to believe that the ideal option is to take a mixture of pork and ground beef, this should turn out to be tastiest. In the minced meat with onion, break the egg, add salt, pepper, and, if desired, other spices that we like best. Mix everything thoroughly.
In a pan, you need to heat up sunflower oil, only after that carefully spread the potato and meat mass, forming neat pancakes from it. Fry potato pancakes on both sides.
As you can see, the main difference is that the stuffing is added already at the stage of preparation of the mixture, it does not need to be laid out on each pancake during the frying process, which significantly saves time.