Spring rolls are a favorite dish of absolutely all people. The only difference in the taste priorities of this dish is the contents of the filling. And it can be very different. These are meat and vegetable, cheese and fruit, fish and jam. Cheese can be taken as salty or sweet with raisins and dried fruits. The meat can be in pancakes separately, and combinations with mushrooms and onions are possible.
Spring rolls can be prepared for your family for breakfast or dinner, or you can create beautifully decorated holiday pancakes for guests. To learn the art of cooking this dish, you need to know not only the technology for making pancakes, but also how to properly make the filling so that it is tasty and juicy.
Before you start cooking pancakes with filling, you need to learn how to cook pancakes yourself - sweet for cheese or fruit toppings and lean for meat, mushroom or fish fillers. Consider the easiest recipes.
How to make pancake dough?
The dough for pancakes with meat should be lean and include salt. To prepare it you will need:
- liter of milk;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 1 tsp;
- rock salt - 1 tsp;
- the same amount of baking soda;
- sifted wheat flour - 2.5 cups;
- vegetable oil - 4-5 tbsp. spoons.
Eggs in a separate bowl are beaten with a whisk in the foam. Milk is heated to a slightly warm state and mixed with eggs. Then bulk ingredients fall asleep and knead. After that, add the right amount of oil, whisk until smooth with a whisk. To fill the dough with oxygen, it is necessary to carry out a procedure tested by specialists. Dough is collected in a ladle and poured several times back into a bowl. After that, the dough is laid aside for a quarter of an hour. When it is well infused, you can start cooking spring rolls.
A very small amount of vegetable oil is poured into a heated pan. Since it is part of the dough, it actually only lubricates the frying pan initially. For the second pancake, they no longer pour it. The dough is poured onto the pan with a ladle and spreads over the entire surface. To do this, the capacity is raised and twisted in different directions. From this process, the dough spreads evenly over the entire surface. Turn the pancake over with a wide spatula carefully so as not to tear.
If you make dough for pancakes with different fillings, then you can divide it in half and in that half, which is intended for making sweet pancakes, add a little more sugar (to taste).
How to cook meat fillings
Various meat fillings can be used. It can be beef, pork, lamb or chicken. But the principle of preparation of the fillings is identical. The fillet is chopped through a meat grinder and fried in a pan with chopped onions until tender. You can add a couple of spoons of sour cream or tomato juice to the minced meat. Then the filling will be more juicy.
After the meat filling is ready and cooled, pancakes begin to fill. You can also create a filling of boiled meat. To do this, rinse it and boil it in a pan with added water. After the meat has cooled, the cooking procedure is repeated, that is, the meat is ground into minced meat and stewed with onions.
Mushroom stuffing
Thin pancakes stuffed with meat can be combined with mushrooms. To do this, you need to buy fresh mushrooms or dried forest mushrooms. Working with the first option is easier, you just need to rinse them, cut into thin slices and simmer in a pan with a beam. Then the contents are added to the meat filling. You can make pancakes and only mushroom, for example, during fasting. Only in this case will you have to make dough for pancakes on the water and without eggs.
If you want to cook simple and tasty spring rolls with wild mushrooms, here you will first have to soak the mushrooms so that they swell. Then they need to be boiled once for 5 minutes, drain the water, fill in a new one and boil again. Only then they are stewed with onions in a pan.
Sweet toppings
Simple and tasty pancakes can be prepared using jam. Then in the middle of the pancake lies a spoonful of jam with berries or pieces of fruit and everything is wrapped in a pancake leaf. You can put a plate with pancakes on the table and put a bowl of jam next to it. Each family member can independently roll a pancake and eat it right there.
Pancakes with cottage cheese and sour cream
Sweet pancakes with cottage cheese are very tasty, they are loved by both adults and children. Cooking options are different. The basis of the filling is grated cottage cheese with sugar and a pinch of salt, where one egg yolk is added for bonding. The remaining components can be used different to your taste. It can be dried fruits and raisins, spices (vanilla, cinnamon), fresh fruits, cut into small slices. When serving pancakes, you can pour over sour cream, jam or sweet syrup.
Pancakes with strawberries
Many love fresh strawberries in early summer. Not only delicious compote and pies are made from it, but also wonderful pancakes. For the filling use sliced ββberries, powdered sugar. Cream is also taken and whipped with icing sugar on a mixer. Do it at high speeds in order to quickly achieve the required density. Then mix everything together.
Before the filling is placed on the pancake, it is lubricated with a piece of butter. Then lay out the filling and wrap it with a tube. You can sprinkle chopped berries on top of a pancake dish. If you decide to make holiday pancakes with filling, then this option will look beautiful at any celebration.
With fish and cheese
Everyone knows how delicious pancakes with red caviar are. This is the food of aristocrats in tsarist Russia. Now you can make no less delicious pancakes that will decorate any of the most sophisticated festive tables.
To prepare such pancakes, you need to buy salted red fish, cut it into thin slices. You will also need processed cheese and fresh dill greens. A pancake is laid out on the table, on which fish is laid out in a thin layer, a layer of greens is poured on top and covered with a soft processed cheese. Then the pancake is carefully wrapped with a straw. Before serving, keep them at least half an hour in the refrigerator. Pancakes are served chopped into pieces so that the filling can be seen.
How to wrap pancakes?
Stuffing can be packaged in pancakes in various ways. We list some of them:
- Tube - basically this method is used when the filling is viscous and does not crumble, for example, jam.
- Rectangles - the filling is placed on the center of the circle. One edge of the pancake is folded, and laid on the filler. Then the remaining three parts cover it alternately.
- Triangle - the filling is distributed on one fourth circle, and the remaining 3 parts are alternately stacked on top of it.
- With roses - first, pancakes are cut into thin strips, then minced meat is placed on each and twisted with a roll. Spread out on the dish in circles. It turns round rolls in shape resembling roses.
- Slippers are pancakes folded, as in the photo above. Spread the filling on the middle, the edges are gathered and tied to a knot. As a "rope" you can use green onions or a string of suluguni cheese.
Use our tips, make spring rolls and serve them nicely on the table. Enjoy your meal!