What are lean pancakes? How to cook them? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. In lean pancakes, eggs and milk are replaced with other ingredients. But they end up being almost the same as the pancakes we are used to. In addition, lean pancakes are good in that they have a low calorie content, lighter than usual, suitable for those who fast, and those who are forced to diet.
Description
The lean pancake recipe contains no sour cream, no eggs, no milk. It is made in accordance with all abstinence in food, which are prescribed by religious canons. The dough for such pancakes can have both a yeast and a fresh base. Lenten delicious pancakes can be made in plain water.
The basic components are salt, water, flour, sugar and vegetable oil, the presence of which indicates that pancakes can be cooked only on church days - Sunday or Saturday.
As a liquid base, water, cereal or vegetable broths or highly carbonated mineral water can be used. To get different types of lean pancakes, you can combine wheat flour with buckwheat or rye, as well as corn or oatmeal.
Such pancakes are prepared with various sweet fillings, using syrups, jams, preserves or honey, dried fruits, steamed and crushed in a blender with sugar or honey, as well as pumpkin lightly fried in a pan with sugar, bananas, apples, berries, pears, Kiwi, pineapple or other fruits in the form of mashed potatoes or baked with honey or sugar, coconut with honey or ground nuts.
Lenten pancakes with savory fillings turn out to be very tasty: mushrooms and buckwheat, mashed potatoes with fresh herbs or fried onions, mushrooms with onions, stewed cabbage with herbs, with zucchini and eggplant stew, as well as with other additives. Perhaps, among the presented recipes, you will find one that will become an impeccable dish on your lean table.
On the water
In order to make lean pancakes on water, you need to have:
- flour (1.5 tbsp.);
- a couple of glasses of water;
- sunflower oil (50 ml);
- one tbsp. l Sahara;
- half tsp soda;
- salt;
- some citric acid or vinegar.
So, dissolve sugar, salt in water, pour citric acid and sifted flour and knead the dough thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Then add vegetable oil and soda. Mix everything well. Grease the pan with lean butter, heat and bake pancakes over medium heat.
On mineral water
We present you a recipe for delicious lean pancakes with mineral water. In order to prepare them, you need to have:
- sugar (4 tsp);
- mineral water (500 ml);
- half tsp salts;
- two tbsp. l lean oil;
- one and a half or two cups of flour (depending on the density of the required dough).
Mix the sifted flour with sugar and salt, add vegetable oil and mineral water, and mix well. Pour a little oil into the preheated pan and fry the pancakes until cooked on both sides.
Pancakes on tea
To create such pancakes you need to cook:
- wheat flour (6 tbsp. l.);
- 250 ml of green or black tea;
- two to three tbsp. l Sahara;
- one tsp baking powder;
- a pinch of salt;
- vegetable oil (1 tbsp. l.).
Brew tea first, then cool it. Now pour in a deep bowl and add sugar, vegetable oil and salt. Using a whisk, mix everything. Next, gradually mix the flour. If you want the pancakes to be thick, pour a couple more tbsp. l flour.
Now add the baking powder and beat with a whisk so that there are no lumps. Lubricate a preheated pan with lean oil and start baking pancakes.
On brine
To create this dish you need the following ingredients:
- soda (1 tsp);
- a couple of glasses of flour;
- vegetable oil (2 tbsp. l.);
- tomato or cucumber pickle (1 l).
Add soda and flour to the brine and mix gently. Grease the pan with sunflower oil, heat it and bake pancakes until browned on both sides.
With lemon and apple juice
For these pancakes you need to have:
- lemon juice (1 tsp);
- 10 g of baking powder;
- lean oil;
- wheat flour (250 g);
- apple juice (100 ml);
- 100 g of sugar;
- water (420 g).
Combine salt, flour, baking powder and sugar in a separate bowl. Mix lemon juice with warm water, vegetable oil, and apple juice. Pour some of this liquid into the flour, knead with a whisk. While stirring, add the rest of the liquid. Grease the pan with sunflower oil, heat and bake pancakes.
On soy milk
To bake these pancakes you need to have on hand:
- sugar (1 tbsp. l.);
- two tbsp. l honey;
- one glass of flour;
- half a glass of water;
- vegetable margarine (50 g);
- half a glass of soy milk;
- a pinch of salt.
So, mix sugar, salt, flour, water, melted margarine, honey and soy milk, cover the resulting mass with a film and send in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Preheat the pan, pre-lubricating it with sunflower oil, and fry the pancakes.
Lean Yeast Pancakes
To make these pancakes you need to have:
- one and a half glasses of flour;
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 5 tsp Sahara;
- 10 g pressed fresh yeast (or 3 g dry);
- half tsp salts;
- 300 ml of water.
In a deep bowl, combine the flour with four teaspoons of sugar. Pour in a glass of water warm and set aside for 15 minutes. Proceed with the preparation of the dough. To do this, dissolve the yeast and one tsp in warm water (100 ml). sugar until foam. Now pour the finished dough into the dough, mix and wait until the bubbles appear on its surface.
Next, pour lean oil into the dough, add salt, mix and bake pancakes on a heated frying pan on both sides. By the way, they will be fat. If you want thin pancakes, pour more water (100 ml) into the dough.
Such pancakes are good with seasoning. To do this, soak the dried, washed mushrooms for 3 hours, boil, cut into small pieces and fry. Add to them chopped and lightly fried onions or green onions. Next, spread the priests in a pan, fill them with dough and fry like plain pancakes.
Yeast Russian pancakes (ancient recipe)
To make this dish you need to have:
- pressed fresh yeast (25 g);
- 2.5 tbsp. wheat flour;
- a third of a glass of buckwheat flour;
- one tsp salts;
- lean oil;
- one tbsp. l Sahara.
In the evening, knead a thick dough of water, yeast, buckwheat and ½ part of wheat flour and place it in a cold place. Add the remaining flour, salt, sugar the next day and let the dough rise. Half an hour before making pancakes, pour so much warm water into the dough so that it becomes as thick as sour cream. Shuffle it. Now you can bake pancakes.
Buckwheat lean yeast pancakes "Buckwheat"
To make these pancakes you need to take:
- 25 g of yeast;
- four tbsp. buckwheat flour;
- water (4.5 tbsp.);
- salt.
Dissolve fresh yeast in ½ cup of warm water, then add and mix another half cup. Then, stirring, pour a couple of glasses of flour and knead so that there are no lumps. Cover the dough with a cloth and place in a warm place.
When it increases in volume by 2–3 times, add the remaining flour, add salt, pour in the water that remains, mix well and place again in a warm place. When the dough increases in size, start frying pancakes. Do not mix the dough.
Lean oat pancakes
To create this dish you need to take:
- water (4 glasses);
- 1 tsp salts;
- flour (2.5 tbsp.);
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 2 cups of oatmeal;
- starch (2 tsp);
- lean oil (4 tbsp. l.);
- half tsp soda.
So, pour oat flakes with water at night, and strain the resulting mass in the morning. You should have 900 ml of oat milk. Mix it with flour, sugar, soda and salt. Pour in vegetable oil (3 tbsp. L.), Whisk with a whisk until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Lubricate the preheated pan with vegetable oil and start frying the pancakes.
Lenten Vegetable Pancakes
To create such pancakes you need to have:
- three large potatoes;
- wholemeal flour (120 g);
- one onion;
- one carrot;
- salt;
- dill (20 g);
- lean oil (4 tbsp. l.);
- parsley (20 g);
- one stalk of celery;
- spices (marjoram, dried basil, ground black pepper).
First, grate potatoes, carrots, onions and celery. Next, add spices, vegetable oil, herbs and flour. Mix well and leave for a couple of minutes. Now heat the vegetable oil in a pan and fry the pancakes over medium heat.
Fold the prepared pancakes in a pan, cover and leave for 10 minutes. As a result, their taste will become even better. Before serving, sprinkle pancakes with sesame seeds.
Wake pancakes
At the memorial table, pancakes are considered one of the obligatory dishes. They can be both rich and lean. If you have prepared lean pancakes for the wake, pour them with jam or wrap the filling in them. Indeed, if the commemoration is held in fasting, this does not mean that you need to limit the variety of the memorial table.