It is believed that pancakes are a traditional Russian dish. But similar products are baked in other countries. These are magnificent miniature American pancakes and the finest French crepes, and Ukrainian milk. Unlike Russian thick pancakes, which are cooked on yeast, European products are very thin and resemble a lace napkin. Ukrainian pancakes with milk deserve special attention. Despite the fact that these products are thin, they are flexible and strong enough to reliably hold the filling inside. By the way, stuffed pancakes in Ukraine are no longer called babies, but shamrocks.
Spring rolls (sweet, meat, vegetable, cottage cheese) can be wrapped not only in the form of a roll, but also in an envelope. Below we present you a selection of recipes for pancakes in milk with a photo. But, it should be noted, these products also work well on kefir, whey and even soda water and beer.
Classic recipe: product set
The ingredients of this dish are standard and can be found in any home. To cook pancakes with milk according to the classic recipe, you will need:
- flour (400 grams);
- sugar (two tablespoons);
- eggs (four pieces);
- salt (a small pinch);
- vegetable oil (two tablespoons).
The main ingredient, of course, is milk. We need one liter of it. It can be either sweet or sour. From kitchen utensils you will need a good cast-iron skillet. Usually housewives hold special dishes for baking pancakes. Since the products are fried in a slightly greased pan, our grandmothers for such cases had a goose feather. And we can do with a silicone brush. If you do not have one on the farm, use raw potatoes cut in half. We put it on a fork. With a cut, dip in vegetable oil and grease the bottom of the pan.
Classic Recipe: Dough
We start by breaking eggs into a wide bowl. Sprinkle them with sugar and beat a little. This can be done either with a whisk or with a mixer. Sift the flour into another container and mix it with salt. We begin to gradually mix the loose ingredient into the eggs with sugar. We also add milk in portions. The dough should be very liquid. Leave it alone for about twenty minutes, and then pour vegetable oil. Thanks to him, pancakes in milk can be fried almost in a dry pan. What is the secret of such a test? It is only one: all ingredients must be at room temperature. Pancakes are very thin, but quite dense. If you want to get an openwork pattern on the surface of the pancake, that is, so that it looks like a lace napkin, heat half the milk to 50 degrees. Pour in a cold liquid first and then a hot one.
Classic Recipe: Baking Secrets
Check if the dough has come up. It should slowly drain from the spoon, and not pour from it like water. We have already said that the dough is more liquid in consistency and resembles a fermented baked milk, only without grains characteristic of it. Since we will bake thin pancakes in milk, the recipe requires to achieve absolute uniformity and smoothness of the base. Believe me, the smallest lump of flour will prove itself in the finished product. What is the secret of baking? The pan should be “pancake”. That is, on it you can fry only these products and nothing else. No matter how thoroughly we wash the pan after cutlets or potatoes, baking pancakes on it will already be problematic. It is believed that the older the dishes, the better it fries. So, cherish the grandmother’s legacy. It is necessary to heat the pan well, but not to heat it - this is the second secret of successful pancakes in milk. If the pan is too hot, the dough immediately “seizes” and does not spread. The result is a small and thick pancake. And if the pan is too cold, then you dry the pancakes on it and they will stick.
Frying pancakes
We put cast iron dishes on the fire. We are waiting for it to warm up to the proper level. Although the test already has vegetable oil and in some recipes for pancakes in milk they indicate that you need to fry them without fat, for the first product, be sure to lubricate the pan. Further - look according to circumstances. If the pancakes stick, then grease the pan with vegetable oil. Scoop out the dough with a small ladle. Pour and move the pan back and forth, trying to ensure that the liquid spreads over the entire surface of the pan. Cooking aces know how to skillfully throw a pancake so that it rolls over in the air and falls on the pan the other side. This skill has been developed for years, so for the first time it will be enough if we separate the product from the bottom with a wooden spatula and carefully turn it over. Fold the finished pancakes in a stack on a plate. It is not necessary to lubricate them with butter - they are already quite fatty.
Grandma’s recipe for thin pancakes in milk with holes
Products come out tender and directly melt in your mouth. They delight not only with taste, but also with their lace look. To achieve pancake openwork, put on a pan a pan with 700 milliliters of farm milk, from which cream was not removed. We boil it, and then cool it to a temperature of + 40 ... + 50 ° . To make delicious pancakes with milk, according to the recipe, it is necessary to use only wheat flour of fine grinding and the highest quality. Be sure to sift it through a sieve to break possible lumps, as well as to saturate with oxygen. This technique will greatly facilitate the kneading of the test. Flour we need seven tablespoons with a slide. Now let's get down to the process itself:
- Break three eggs into a wide bowl. Add a tablespoon of sugar and incomplete tea salt.
- Beat the mixture. The mixer here will be superfluous, just a whisk or a simple fork.
- Pour half a liter of milk. We continue to whisk.
- Pour a coffee spoon of soda into a glass, pour vinegar there (1 teaspoon). We make sure that the chemical reaction affects the entire powder. When the liquid ceases to hiss and bubble, pour it to the egg and milk mass.
- Mix again. Gradually add flour. From the dough prepared according to this recipe, you can immediately bake pancakes. He does not need time to proof.
- Immediately pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil and the remaining warm milk into it. Knead again until smooth.
Rich In Pancakes With Butter
This recipe is not much different from the classic. The only difference is that not melted butter is poured into the end, but melted butter. Thanks to him, the products are more magnificent, delicate and tasty. It is necessary to give the dough to rest for half an hour in the refrigerator, before baking pancakes in milk. The recipe is simple, as is the frying process. Pancakes need to be fried for a minute on one side and 30 seconds on the other. We put the finished products in a pile. Such products turn out to be very durable, therefore, they often prepare claddings (stuffed pancakes). They are baked from dough with butter in the same way as from that with vegetable. You can grease the pan only before frying. By the way, the saying that the first pancake comes out lumpy is more relevant to this recipe. So do not be discouraged, but continue to bake further.
Egg-free pancakes
Some people agree to eat only those products of animal origin that do not take life from livestock. For example, they eat milk, butter, cheese (only on synthetic abomasum), cottage cheese, and refuse to eat meat and eggs. Should they also refrain from pancakes? Not at all! Here is a recipe for pancakes in milk without eggs :
- We start by sifting in a bowl two and a half cups of premium flour and fine grinding. Add half a teaspoon of salt and soda there (you do not need to extinguish with vinegar).
- If you plan to serve pancakes with honey, jam or wrap dessert filling in them, add three tablespoons of sugar to the dough. If the stuffing in the casebooks is unsweetened, reduce its number to two tbsp. spoons.
- Pour half a liter of milk at room temperature. Stir until there is not a single lump of flour.
- Add two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Stir again.
- We bring half a liter of milk to a boil and immediately, without cooling, pour a thin stream into the dough.
- We put the pan on the fire. Melt there a piece of butter (about 70 grams or a third of a standard pack). Stir and immediately begin to bake.
On milk and kefir
It's no secret that splendor to Russian pancakes is given by yeast. But you can achieve such airiness of products without them. The lactic acid bacteria in kefir can do the job of raising the dough. First, sift a half cup of flour. In parallel, we put half a liter of kefir to heat. When it becomes warm (+ 35 ... + 40 °), remove it from the heat, drive in two eggs, add a tablespoon of sugar, a teaspoon of quick soda and a pinch of salt. Gradually, constantly stirring, pour the sifted flour. Break the smallest lumps. To make thin pancakes in milk with holes, we boil a glass of milk in a saucepan. With a thin stream, constantly mixing, we introduce it into the dough. Add two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Pancakes can be baked immediately. Pour a ladle into a portion of the dough that is heated and greased with vegetable oil in a pan. We move it so that the dough spreads over the entire surface. When the product turns brown, turn it over to the other side.
English pancakes with holes in milk: recipe
The first recorded note on how to make this dessert is contained in an old British cookbook written in the fifteenth century. Consequently, the British know a lot about pancakes no less than the Slavs. Let's see how products are made in foggy Albion. It turns out that it’s not at all like ours. Flour (three hundred grams) is sieved so that a slide forms from it. We make a depression on its apex, like a crater of a volcano. We drive in four eggs. We begin to knead the steep dough, tossing the flour from the periphery to the center. Add a pinch of salt, 600 milliliters of milk (you can cold) and half the amount of water. Knead the dough thoroughly. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Mix and refrigerate for two hours. We heat the pan and grease it with vegetable oil. We bake thin pancakes in milk until tender and a golden hue.
Cheese and herbs recipe
Other ingredients can be added to the resulting dough. Then neutral pancakes will find their taste. Products can be baked with chocolate (cocoa) and coconut. According to this recipe, pancakes in milk can be cooked with hard cheese and dill. First, heat one and a half glasses of milk, put two eggs in it, add a teaspoon of salt and sugar. Sift a glass of flour. Mix it with a teaspoon of cookie powder. Squeeze finely ("on the powder") 150 grams of hard cheese, add to the liquid mass. A bunch of dill finely chop. Add flour to the liquid mass. Pour dill greens into the resulting dough and pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil. Thoroughly mix the dough and cheese pancakes in milk with greens and fry in a heated pan.
With hot
You can make very original cladding. Cooking the dough according to the classic recipe. But before frying the products, we make the bake. It can be grated apples, tomatoes, cheese and other products. Heat the pan. Lubricate it with vegetable oil. In the middle of the pan we lay out our priek. And then we pour the dough. Pancakes in milk with holes are obtained, like an omelet with filler.