Which of us does not like to eat tasty food? And if it comes to home cooking ... Take at least pancakes. Yeast, in milk, with a lace pattern. Fragrant, delicate, delicate. You can eat them just like that, and with various fillings. There are tons of options! A simple recipe for yeast pancakes (and not one!) We will write in this article. And for starters, let's find out when the first pancakes appeared in Russia.
An indispensable attribute of Shrovetide
Pancakes - this is an original Russian dish, which before the advent of Christianity was considered nothing more than sacrificial bread. They became the main dish of Shrovetide in the 19th century - it was believed that their round shape symbolizes the Sun, which means life itself.
The recipe for yeast pancakes has changed and supplemented over several centuries. Over time, this Russian dish fell in love with the people of different countries. For example, in England they prefer very sweet and low-fat pancakes, the French love thin yeast pancakes in milk, but the Germans add cognac and other alcoholic drinks to the dough.
Now every mistress has her own special recipe. To bake delicious pancakes is a whole art! To master it in full, so that not a single pancake turns out lumpy, our recipes will help.
Tasty, like a grandmother!
The most delicious pancakes are yeast in milk. The beauty is that they are exactly what our grandmothers baked, and therefore come from childhood. To make thin yeast pancakes, we need:
- Flour - 3 cups.
- Dry yeast - 1 sachet.
- Milk - 1 liter.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Sour cream 20% - 3 tablespoons.
- Sugar - 3 tablespoons.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
Note: 1 bag of dried yeast can be replaced with 30 grams of fresh, and for lack of sour cream, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil will do.
Opara - pancake head!
We begin to knead the dough. First of all, you need to cook the dough. To do this, in a clean container, combine dry yeast with flour and mix well. Then pour the warm milk and mix again. If instead of dry yeast they are fresh, then first you need to dissolve them in warm milk, and only then add the flour. Then we cover our dough with a towel and put in a warm place for 1 hour. To cook delicious pancakes (yeast, milk), do not fuss, make noise and rush. Yeast dough doesn't like that!
While the dough rises, we proceed to the second stage of dough preparation. First of all, you need to beat the eggs in a steep foam - this can be done either with a mixer, or with a fork or whisk. Then add sour cream (or butter), salt and sugar and once again beat thoroughly until smooth. Combine this mixture with a dough, mix gently and put in heat for another 30 minutes.
Our dough is suitable, in the meantime, you can cook various fillings. For example, such pancakes (yeast, in milk) go very well with salted fish, red caviar, cottage cheese and herbs, fried mushrooms and meat, and are also good just for jam or condensed milk.
Ready for baking!
When the pancake dough has reached the desired condition, put the pan on the fire (it is advisable to choose a cast iron or non-stick coating, otherwise the pancakes will stick). We grease the heated pan with vegetable oil, bake our openwork yeast pancakes on both sides and put it on a plate with a slide. At the same time, it is advisable to lubricate each with butter so that they do not stick together. That’s all wisdom!
The union of yeast and milk
Despite the wonderful “grandma’s recipe” published above, we suggest trying another one. In the end, there are never too many delicious pancakes! The second recipe for yeast pancakes in milk is a little more complicated than the previous one, but it is possible that it will become your signature one. So, the necessary ingredients:
- Boiled water - 1 cup.
- Refined sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Milk - 2 cups.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
- Chicken eggs - 2 pieces.
- Fresh yeast - 20 grams.
- Butter - 10 grams.
- Premium wheat flour - 500 grams.
- Salt is on the tip of a knife.
Like the previous one, this recipe for yeast pancakes in milk includes cooking dough. After all, it is she who makes them so soft and tasty. For its preparation, you need to thoroughly dissolve the yeast in very warm boiled water . Then sift 250 grams of flour into a clean bowl, mix it with 1 tablespoon of sugar and carefully pour in the yeast. Mix everything until smooth, cover with a towel and put in heat for 45 minutes. When ready, the dough will increase in volume by 2-3 times.
Handmade
When this happens, add 2 yolks, 1 tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and the remainder of the sifted flour. Knead the dough well with your hands until it becomes smooth, and leave it warm for another 45 minutes.
When the dough rises, we begin gradually, in 2-3 tablespoons, add warm milk to it. In this case, the dough must be constantly kneaded to avoid lumps. When the dough consistency resembles sour cream, you need to add 1 whipped protein to it and mix well again. The dough is ready for baking delicate pancakes! Ready-made pancakes can be served with jam, sour cream or yogurt, as well as with various fillings. As you can see, the recipe for thin yeast pancakes is quite complicated, but in the end everyone will probably ask for supplements!
Kefir rivers
It happens that time is running out, but I want pancakes. If you have no time to make yeast, kefir pancakes - it is tasty, simple, and most importantly, quickly. Let's get started? We will need the following ingredients:
- Kefir with a fat content of at least 2.5% - 1 liter.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Salt - 0.5 teaspoon.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Flour - by eye.
- Soda - 1 teaspoon.
- Boiling water - 1 cup.
First of all, mix kefir, sugar, salt and eggs in a saucepan. For convenience and time saving, you can use a mixer. When the sugar has dissolved, without stopping stirring, gradually add the flour. When the dough reaches the consistency of thick sour cream, pour in the vegetable oil. Mix. Then we pour boiling water into a cup, dissolve soda in it, immediately pour this solution into the dough and mix well again. After that, our dough is ready to turn into porous and delicious pancakes!
Flour variations
Do you know that for pancake dough it is not necessary to use only wheat flour? You can experiment with corn, buckwheat and oatmeal - this will make an excellent flavor variety in our usual dish.
For example, corn pancakes turn out to be unusually thin and perfectly suitable for wrapping various savory fillings in them, for example, salted salmon or cheese with garlic.
In order to cook corn pancakes, we need:
- Wheat flour - 100 grams.
- Cornmeal - 100 grams.
- Milk - 200 milliliters.
- Sugar - 30 grams.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Boiling water - 400 milliliters.
- Vegetable oil - 60 milliliters.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
- Turmeric - 1 teaspoon.
To begin with, carefully sift corn flour into the prepared container and begin to gradually introduce boiling water. Thus, brewing the dough. To avoid the appearance of lumps, mix everything thoroughly. Then add vegetable oil.
After that, we sift the wheat flour into a separate bowl and mix it with turmeric. Combine with corn dough.
Separate the yolks from the proteins and add to the dough. After this, add milk, again thoroughly stir and remove in the cold for 1 hour. Just before frying, add the whipped whites with sugar to the dough. That's all! Ready pancakes turn bright yellow, like the sun!
Sweet life
And finally, we want to tell you a recipe for very unusual, original pancakes that will appreciate the sweet tooth, especially the kids. Who doesn't like chocolate? Everyone loves him! Therefore, we are sure that chocolate pancakes with caramel sauce will take their rightful place in the list of your favorite dishes. So, we need these products:
- Water - 300 milliliters.
- Milk - 700 milliliters.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
- Eggs - 3 pieces.
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Cocoa - 1.5 tablespoons.
- Chocolate - 50 grams.
First of all, pour 100 ml of milk into a cup, mix the remainder with water in a saucepan and warm to room temperature. Then in a clean container beat eggs with salt and sugar and combine them with milk and water. Mix well, add flour and beat everything with a mixer until smooth.
Next, break the chocolate into pieces and melt in 100 ml of warm milk. Pour cocoa into the resulting mass and mix well. Then combine the chocolate mixture with pancake dough and beat thoroughly with a mixer. Leave the dough for 20 minutes. After this time, we start frying pancakes.
We proceed to the preparation of caramel sauce. For him we need:
- Water - 1/4 cup.
- Butter - 10 grams.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Cream with a fat content of at least 20% - 100 grams.
We put the non-stick pan on the fire and melt the butter in it. Then we pour sugar in an even layer and, constantly stirring, we begin to slowly melt it. When it acquires a warm amber color, remove the pan from the heat. When the melted sugar ceases to boil, pour in the water and put it on the fire again. We wait until the sugar dissolves again, add the cream, stir, bring to a boil and remove the pan from the heat. Our caramel sauce is ready!