Not sure what to cook for your loved ones for breakfast? Fried eggs and sandwiches are already tired, pancakes are commonplace, and in the family someone does not like cottage cheese to make cottage cheese pancakes? Then rice pancakes will come to your aid! This is an excellent quick, and most importantly, healthy snack for your children, which you can take with you to school or university.
Rice flour
If you have already prepared pancakes from ordinary wheat flour, today we suggest making them from rice flour. How is it useful?
- Eating rice flour contributes to lower sugar intake.
- Flour improves the functioning of the digestive organs.
- Choosing rice flour, you saturate your body many times faster, since it is very nutritious.
- This flour is able to remove excess water, salt and toxins from the body.
- The proteins contained in it help in the formation of new cells in the body.
- Flour is used more and more often in dietary nutrition, as it normalizes metabolism and helps to cleanse the body.
- Suitable for gluten-free nutrition or diet.
How to make rice flour at home
Not every store or supermarket can find rice flour. Do not worry, it can be easily prepared at home.
What we need:
- white or brown rice;
- mixer, coffee grinder or blender
Actually, all we need to do is grind everything in the device of your choice.
Under what conditions to store rice flour
To preserve rice flour, place it in an airtight plastic container. This is a necessary condition that must be met to prevent mold from becoming infected with the flour, as well as absorbing moisture and other odors.
If you made flour from brown rice, then its shelf life is only five months. White rice flour has no particular storage time limits.
Fritters
In Russian cuisine, pancakes are cottage cheese pancakes similar in appearance to thick, small, round pancakes. Moreover, most fritters are made on the basis of dough from kefir, fruit puree or yogurt. You can add various pieces of fruit to it: apples, pears, nectarines. Banana is also often added to the dough, but previously whisking it until smooth in a blender. This fruit sticks together very well, so you need a little less flour.
In addition, other types of fritters are also popular: carrot, eggplant, semolina, zucchini, potato (pancakes in Belarusian cuisine).
The pan must be very hot so that the dough sets quickly. You need to fry until golden brown. However, not only the crust indicates that the dessert is ready. Try to move the pancakes - if he moves quietly without sticking to the pan, then everything is ready. If the dough seems still liquid, then fry until it sets in butter.
Rice fritters
If you have already prepared pancakes from ordinary wheat flour, today we will try to add variety to your culinary experience. Rice flour fritters are obtained lush, dense, delicate in taste and melt in the mouth.
But first you need to prepare the ingredients. We will make rice pancakes on kefir. To do this, you will need:
- 200 ml of kefir;
- egg;
- 100 grams of semolina;
- a tablespoon of sugar;
- 150 grams of rice flour;
- a pinch of salt.
And now we are preparing rice pancakes:
- Kefir should be poured into a bowl. It should be at room temperature.
- Then break the egg there. Add sugar and beat with a fork or whisk.
- Add semolina, salt and flour. You can also a pinch of baking powder.
- Leave the dough for fifteen minutes.
- In vegetable oil, fry the pancakes, laying the dough in a pan with a tablespoon. Fry on each side for 1.5-2 minutes.
Serve them hot with sour cream, honey, jam, jam, lemon cream, condensed milk.
Calorie content per hundred grams of food - 228 kcal. Content:
- protein - 6 g;
- fat -1 g;
- carbohydrates - 47 g.
Apple fritters
Now let's look at another rice fritters recipe that you will also like. Ingredients:
- two medium apples (preferably green sour);
- 4 tablespoons of rice flour;
- 300 ml drinking yogurt with prunes;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- two chicken eggs;
- a tablespoon of olive oil;
- half tsp soda;
- vinegar;
- half tsp salt.
Cooking these rice pancakes with apple like this:
- We take apples and rub them on a coarse grater.
- We break eggs, add butter, sugar, salt.
- Enter the flour and stir the dough.
- We extinguish soda with vinegar in a teaspoon. Add carefully to the dough.
- Let stand the test for fifteen minutes in the refrigerator.
- In vegetable oil, fry fritters on each side, laying the dough with a spoon or ladle in a pan. Cook until golden brown.
Make sure that the dough is not burnt, otherwise you will not be able to feel the light and delicate taste of pancakes. Serve hot with any sweet sauce: jam, jam, condensed milk, sour cream, honey, etc.
Fritters, in principle, are obtained and so sweet due to the test based on drinking yogurt with prunes. But this taste is complemented by sour apples. Therefore, do not worry, it should not be too cloying. In extreme cases, do not add sauces.
Rice fritters recipes are very easy to prepare. We are sure that you and your loved ones will like them. Enjoy your meal!