Hash browns, pancakes, olyabyshki ... Whatever word they use in Russia, this dish is a type of pancake. There was even a special day during the fasting when pancakes and pancakes were supposed to be baked. People even said that "Oladnitsa came." Usually it was Wednesday and mother-in-law that day had to bake pancakes or pancakes for their sons-in-law, which, by the way, were considered a sign of the highest location. It was in those days that the saying appeared: "To mother-in-law for pancakes."
This culinary dish, widely known among the people, is a frying pan of small fluffy cakes made from batter based on eggs and flour, mixed in yogurt, sour cream, kefir, milk or water.
And today, in many families, pancakes are baked. On the one hand - they are very easy and quick to prepare, on the other hand - with the help of various sauces and gravy you can change their taste. By the way, pancakes recipe and cooking method which is similar to pancakes, are a favorite dish not only in Russia but also in many other countries. Unlike pancakes, pancakes are prepared with the addition of yeast or soda, which gives them splendor.
The fritters of which the recipe contains sour cream, yogurt or kefir, are more lush, airy, and the classic pancakes cooked in milk come out softer and softer. After fasting, simple pancakes are usually baked on water. Previously, they were baked from grained flour.
Fritters can be either sweet or unsweetened. To bake sweet pancakes, the recipe must contain sugar, honey or molasses. This dish is usually served on the table with butter, jam, sour cream or condensed milk.
Fritters whose recipe contains grated potatoes are called pancakes.
To prepare simple yeastless pancakes, 4 eggs, 500 milliliters of milk, 300 grams of flour (a little more) can be taken, one or two tablespoons of sugar, one teaspoon of salt and a pinch of soda. To make pancakes easier to turn over, you need to add three tablespoons of vegetable oil to the dough.
First you need to beat eggs with salt and sugar in a cup, then pour milk and add flour. Soda, so that it is evenly dispersed, must first be mixed with flour, or you can put it out, but it is better not with vinegar, but just boiling water. Everything is mixed and vegetable oil is added. Now you need to beat the mass with a whisk until the dough becomes homogeneous, without lumps that can ruin the taste of the pancakes and the appearance of the finished dish.
Now we will tell you how to bake yeast pancakes whose recipe is slightly different from yeast, but it is also not difficult to follow. First you need to warm half the milk to room temperature, then combine it with yeast and wait until they disperse. After that add eggs, salt and sugar and pour into flour, stirring constantly. Put the resulting mass in a warm place.
After 20 minutes, you need to heat the second half of the milk and pour into the yeast mass. All ingredients are intensively mixed, after which the pancakes can be baked in a pan.
This culinary dish has one serious drawback - even simple fritters, the recipe of which includes wheat flour and milk, and fry in a large amount of sunflower or other oil, turn out to be very fatty and high-calorie, and therefore it is harmful to complete people.
You can bake diet pancakes - in them the flour is replaced with oatmeal.
There are many recipes based on vegetables or fruits, with the addition of cottage cheese or grated cheese. Very popular squash fritters. Bird and fish can also be used in pancakes. Many people like to cook liver pancakes. To make the pancakes small, spread the dough into a pan with a tablespoon. And so that they are fried - their thickness should not exceed half a centimeter.