One of the most popular dishes of Belarusian cuisine are potato pancakes or pancakes. They are also called potato pancakes. Draniki whose recipe has been known for a long time, is also popular in cuisines of other nations, for example, in Russian, Ukrainian, European and Eastern European.
This dish is served hot with garlic sauce or sour cream. The most important ingredient in potato pancakes is potatoes. A distinctive feature of potato pancakes is that the potatoes should be rubbed on a coarse grater, and not on a fine one. And also they can’t be made from mashed potatoes, as in this case a completely different dish will turn out - potato balls.
Draniki, the recipe of which was first mentioned in the 19th century, can be cooked with or without flour. For 5-6 potatoes (large), you need to take one medium onion, one egg and one tablespoon of any sour-milk product: sour cream, kefir or yogurt, a little salt and pepper. On a grater, first you need to grate the onion, and then raw peeled potatoes. If a lot of juice has formed, then it needs to be drained. Then you need to quickly add the remaining ingredients, mix and immediately fry in vegetable oil. To taste this dish resembles french fries.
And now a few words about how to cook pancakes, the recipe of which includes flour. To all of the above products you need to add only two tablespoons of flour. For taste, you can add one clove of garlic, passing it through a garlic squeezer. Draniki is molded in the form of cutlets or fritters and fried to a beautiful golden color on both sides. Serve the dish on the table hot with sour cream. Six portions are obtained from the amount of ingredients presented.
Potato pancakes can be prepared with the addition of ham, minced meat or grated cheese. The dish is very tasty, but high-calorie. But you can cook lean pancakes whose recipe does not include ingredients such as meat, fish or poultry. For example, you can cook potato pancakes from carrots or zucchini.
Probably, not everyone knows that draniki from zucchini, the recipe of which will be described below, is not only tasty, but also healthy and considered a dietary dish. After all, zucchini, like the whole pumpkin family, contains carbohydrates, potassium salts, iron, calcium and magnesium, carotene and many vitamins of group B. It was for these qualities that he was nicknamed the home doctor. Zucchini pancakes from zucchini are very tender and serve well with garlic sauce.
Lenten pancakes, the recipe for which is simple, can be made not only from young zucchini, but also from large ones. It will take 500 grams of zucchini, 1-2 onions, 3 tablespoons of flour and 1 tablespoon of sunflower or other vegetable oil. Before you rub the zucchini on a coarse grater, you must first peel them. Rub the onion on a fine grater and add to the zucchini. Now the mixture needs to be salted and allowed to stand for a while, then drain the resulting juice. Then you need to add the remaining ingredients, mix everything thoroughly and fry in a hot pan until golden brown.
To prepare the garlic sauce, you need to take 2 cloves of garlic, pass through the garlic and mix with mayonnaise, which will take 50 grams. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Ready sauce should be anointed with prepared pancakes and put on a flat dish and garnish with sprigs of dill and parsley.
And you can cook potato and zucchini draniki recipe which combines the tenderness of potatoes and the utility of zucchini. For three young zucchini, you need to take 4 potatoes, 1 onion and 3 large cloves of garlic. You also need to take parsley, dill, basil and ginger. All ingredients need to be chopped and mixed with four tablespoons of flour and one egg, and then salt and pepper to taste.
You can grate 50 grams of hard cheese and add to the mixture, or you can do it differently. Squash mixture is poured onto a hot pan with a spoon, then a circle of sliced tomato is stolen on each tortilla, and a piece of cheese is placed on it. Top the filling with a thin layer of the mixture and fry potato pancakes on both sides until a beautiful golden crust appears. It will turn out not just draniki, but something more!