Not every hostess can bake delicious pancakes the first time, despite the fact that there are many recipes for this dish. Yeast, on milk, starch or kefir, American pancakes, with or without filling, have become not only a popular and favorite dish of our cuisine, but also a sign of the hostess's high skill.
The more she succeeds in this art, the more often the question arises: what else can be done from pancakes? How to show your imagination and culinary skills, than to please the home?
Pancakes are not only an independent dish. They can act as components, for example, for a salad. An approximately equal amount of starch pancakes, beef, and onions to taste will be required. First, make pancakes. They take the same amount of starch and flour, add sugar and salt to taste, beat eggs, add warmed milk. All beat well with a mixer. At the end, it is recommended to pour a little vegetable oil. The dough should turn out liquid.
After half an hour, when it is infused, you can fry in a hot frying pan greased with fat. While the pancakes are cooked, cut into half rings (the thinner the better), onion, pour it with cold water and vinegar. Ready, still warm pancakes are rolled up and cut into thin strips. Mix with onions, pre-dried on a towel, and chopped boiled beef. Dressed with sour cream, yogurt or mayonnaise, add garlic, spices, spices to taste. A salad is especially tasty if you stand it for one or two hours in the refrigerator before serving.
Another gourmet dish could be a pancake cake.
To make a pancake cake with condensed milk, you will need thin pancakes created according to any recipe you like. The main thing is not to add a lot of sugar to them, because condensed milk even has a cloying taste. But vanilla will give this dish a special piquancy.
The cake can be very simple: each layer (pancake) is simply smeared with finished condensed milk. And you can show imagination. For example, alternate the filling of sour cream, condensed milk, cottage cheese, apples. The top layer is poured with condensed milk, sprinkled with coconut, grated chocolate, cinnamon - the choice depends entirely on personal preferences.
Pancake cake doesn't have to be sweet. From time immemorial, in Russia, the hostesses were famous for their ability to cook a henhouse or unsweetened pancake cake stuffed with chicken. To prepare it, you need lush yeast pancakes.
They are prepared like this. To begin with, mix a glass of warm water, 250 g of flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, half a bag of dry yeast. Leave until the mass foams. Then it is mixed, adding the remaining products: another 250 g of flour, a little more than a glass of milk, salt, vegetable or melted butter. The dough should look like liquid sour cream. When it comes again, pancakes can be baked.
To make the pancake chicken cake delicious, we prepare the filling of chicken meat, mushrooms, rice, mixed in equal proportions. For piquancy, the minced meat can be flavored with nutmeg, pepper, other spices or spices.
When the pancakes and toppings are ready, it's time to form a pancake cake. Each pancake is smeared with sour cream or mayonnaise, and the filling is laid out on it. Everything is repeated until the last layer. The finished pancake cake with chicken is smeared with sour cream on all sides, and sent to the oven for several minutes.
Cake with salmon will delight gourmets with an unusual delicate taste. Pancakes for its preparation can be taken any. Each of them is well smeared with a mixture of cream cheese and a small amount of sour cream. Then laid out in thin strips of slightly salted fish: salmon or trout. She is sprinkled with finely chopped dill. A cake of 20-25 pancakes will decorate any holiday table.