What to cook pancakes with is not an idle question, because in modern cooking there are many recipes for this dish with a wide variety of fillings. These are tender fruits, and cottage cheese, and various types of meat, as well as fish, mushrooms, vegetables, crab sticks and a host of other products.
However, if you give all the recipes for pancakes with filling, the list will be very impressive. Let us dwell on the most interesting and delicious ingredients.
Classic recipe
Before deciding what to make pancakes with, let's first choose which dough we will use. After all, his recipes also come up with a great variety: yeast, with the addition of soda and mineral water, in milk, on kefir, on water, with a large number of eggs or, conversely, with a minimum, with oil and without it.
Classic dough for pancakes in milk is easy to prepare. We will need the following products:
- half a liter of milk;
- 2-3 eggs;
- 250 g of flour;
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- salt to taste.
Eggs must be removed from the refrigerator in advance to keep them warm to room temperature. Break them into a bowl, add sugar and salt and beat well. Experts recommend always adding sugar to the dough, regardless of what you are going to cook pancakes with.
Then heat the milk to 30-35 degrees and pour it into the egg mass. Mix thoroughly. Add the sifted flour and stir with a whisk until all the lumps are dissolved. The consistency of the dough should be similar to liquid sour cream. Add vegetable oil, mix again, and you can start baking. Such a test does not need to be insisted.
Lush pancakes
Many housewives try to make pancakes as thin as possible and have holes. It is these homemade pancakes that are considered the pinnacle of culinary excellence. But do not discount the yeast dough. If you have never cooked this familiar dish this way, then be sure to try breeding the dough with yeast. You will receive surprisingly soft, delicate, airy and unusually lush pancakes. Yes, they will be thicker, but outwardly very beautiful. So, to prepare the yeast dough we need:
- 2 cups of milk;
- 1 glass of water;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 teaspoon with a hill of dry yeast;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Mix milk with water and heat on a stove to 35-38 degrees. Add yeast, sugar, salt, and eggs to the liquid. Beat the mixture well with a whisk, and then sift the flour into it. It remains to add only vegetable oil. The dough should be as thick as a pancake.
We leave it warm for about half an hour. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel or napkin so that the crust does not dry on top. Every ten minutes, mix the dough well so that it takes in air and releases excess carbon dioxide. After that, you can get a pan and start frying.
Meat filling
How to cook pancakes so that they are satisfying? Of course, with meat.
For the filling, you can use:
- Chicken
- pork
- beef;
- low-fat mutton.
Take the sirloin, without bone, and boil in salt water. You need 400 grams of raw meat for the dough recipe above. While the meat is being cooked, fry one onion in vegetable oil, cut into cubes. We twist the boiled meat in a meat grinder, mix with fried onions. Here is our hearty filling and ready. Spices and seasonings can be added to your taste.
If there is no meat, sausage will do.
If you donโt really want to bother with the filling, and the pancakes are ready, then everything that is in the refrigerator is suitable - cheese, sausage, sausages, tomatoes, greens. By the way, children really like pancakes with sausage, so why not treat them?
So, find out how to cook this dish. We cut boiled sausage into small plates, lightly fry, add tomatoes, cut into rings, grated cheese. Let this mass warm up and melt, and then we start pancakes with a hot mixture. When the filling cools down, it will acquire a beautiful uniform consistency.
Wealth of forms
Many housewives do not really bother with decorative delights and simply wrap the filling in a pancake with a tube, and then cut it in half. But it is important that it is not only tasty, but also beautiful!
How to wrap pancakes so that the filling does not fall out? It is best, of course, to do this in the form of an envelope. To do this, first cover the filling with pancake on top, then tuck the sides and then overlap the bottom.
It will look beautiful if you wrap the filling in a tube, and then cut it diagonally. As a result, you get nice pancake rolls.
If the filling is not too friable, then try to roll a pancake in the shape of a triangle.
To the festive table
But if you want to surprise guests, spend some time and make cute bags of pancakes. For this you need green onions. Put the filling in the center of the pancake, then form a nice bag and tie it on top with green onions. You can use dill as a tie. Of course, this method is not suitable for pancakes with cottage cheese, apples or sweet toppings, but pancake bags with onion ties are an excellent option for meat, sausage, mushroom, cheese fillings.
Mushroom lovers
Pancakes with mushrooms are also very tasty. You can choose any recipe for the test, but we advise you to prepare the filling as follows. As for mushrooms, they can be used in any form: fresh, salted, soaked or dried.
Naturally, you need to pre-soak dried mushrooms, and clean fresh ones. We cut them in circles and fry in vegetable oil. Add onions, spices, simmer over low heat, and 10 minutes before cooking, put sour cream in the filling (one or two tablespoons per pound of mushrooms). Wrap the resulting stuffing in pancakes and serve with sour cream to the table.
But salted and soaked mushrooms do not need to be fried. It is also enough to chop them finely, add the fried onions and, if desired, boiled potatoes. As a result, you will get delicious and satisfying pancakes with mushrooms. The recipe can be varied by adding pickles, which should also be finely chopped. This dish is preferably served as a cold snack.
Expensive and beautiful
Of course, one cannot ignore the traditional recipes for pancakes stuffed with red and black caviar. This is a very sophisticated and expensive dish that will decorate any table.
It is important to remember that red and black caviar should never be wrapped in pancakes. Firstly, if they stand a little, then the caviar will begin to flow. Secondly, if you hide such beauty inside, then the festive table will no longer look so luxurious. Classic pancakes with caviar are usually served separately, and already in the process of eating, each person puts the right amount of filling to himself. To do this, it is recommended to roll pancakes twice - in half and again in half. It will turn out a beautiful triangle. Caviar is served in separate stewpan. Do not place on the table an iron can that has just been opened with a knife. Better place the eggs in a glass vase. This will add sophistication to your meal.
Berries and fruits
How to cook pancakes in the summer? Since at this time of year there is a huge selection of fresh fruits and berries in the markets and shops, you just have to let your imagination run wild. For example, many people have heard dumplings with strawberries and cherries, but in the same way in the summer you can cook pancakes. However, it should be borne in mind that these berries are very flowing. So for the future, of course, pancakes can not be prepared. But if you immediately have them, then it will be a great dessert.
Classic pancakes with apples are also very popular. To prepare the filling, we need:
- three to four large apples, sweet and sour varieties;
- 4-5 tablespoons of sugar;
- 50 g of butter.
Peel the fruit, cut into slices. In a pan, melt the butter and fry the apples on both sides (3-4 minutes each). Then put the hot stuffing on the pancake and sprinkle with sugar. We wrap it in an envelope and fry a pancake with a filling in butter, literally one minute from one side and the other.
It will be very beautiful if you season these wonderful pancakes before serving with a beautiful currant jam or a circle of cold ice cream. Such a dessert will surely appeal to both your household and guests.
Cottage cheese
And, of course, we could not forget another classic recipe - pancakes with cottage cheese. Delicate, soft, tasty, they are perfect for a children's table, for elderly gourmets, and as a dish for every day.
For the filling, you should use low-fat cottage cheese - about 400 grams per standard portion of dough. Knead it with sugar to make it more juicy. Enough for such a volume of 3-4 tablespoons of granulated sugar, but by the way, be guided by your taste. In the winter, you can add raisins or finely chopped dried apricots to the curd mass. In summer, it is best to put raspberries or currants. Such pancakes are not recommended for future use, since their shelf life is no more than two days. Even if the curd does not turn sour, it is compressed and will not be so tender.
Crab sticks with cheese
The original will be pancakes with crab sticks. We cut them lengthwise into thin strips. Mix with grated cheese. Wrap the pancakes with a tube and then cut diagonally into three or four parts. Serve such rolls with mayonnaise. As a decoration, you can add a couple of boiled shrimp or mussels on top.
Try using cheese or feta cheese with garlic and spices as a filling for pancakes. To do this, rub the hard cheese on a coarse grater, and simply mash the feta cheese with a fork. Add a couple of cloves of garlic squeezed on a garlic clove. You can also season the filling with finely chopped herbs - cilantro, parsley, dill. The basil leaves can be carefully laid out on the whole pancake, and then wrap the filling. You will get a double layer: on top is a pancake dough, inside - a layer of greenery. These pancakes go well with mayonnaise or hot sauces.
Condensed milk
We all remember the taste of childhood - pancakes with condensed milk. They are perfect for tea and coffee, compote or cocoa. Cooking them is easy. Pancake grease with a thin layer of condensed milk. You can sprinkle grated nut on top. Wrap in a tube, put on a dish and sprinkle pancakes with grated chocolate or powdered sugar.
For the dessert option, honey, jam, various jams are also suitable as a filling.
Exotic taste
Recently, pancakes with exotic fruits: bananas, pineapples, kiwi, oranges, have become very popular. You can take several fruits at once or, if you wish, stop at one thing. Finely chop the banana, kiwi, pineapple, mix and spread the filling on the pancake. No need to add sugar to it, since these fruits are already quite juicy, and sugar will only provoke the release of excess juice.
Such pancakes with exotic fillings will go well with whipped cream, which you can cook yourself or buy a ready-made spray can at the store.
Some useful tips
So that the pancake, as they say, does not turn out lumpy, each mistress should know the following:
- Always knead the dough not with a spoon or fork, but with a whisk, as if slightly whisking. This is guaranteed to save the pancake mixture from lumps.
- To prevent pancakes from sticking to the pan, add 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil to the dough. Then you do not have to lubricate the pan every time, it will be enough to do this only at the very beginning of frying.
- If you basically do not want to use vegetable oil in the test, then before pouring the mixture into a frying pan, grease it with butter. To do this, take a half of raw peeled potatoes, prick it on a fork and grease the pan with such a device.
- Do not try to immediately wrap the stuffing in a hot pancake. Give it a little rest, cool. Then it will become softer. Pancakes can be brittle right after frying.
- If you would make envelopes, triangles, tubes and bags from pancakes and stack them on top of each other, remember one rule. Immediately after you remove the pancake from the pan, anoint it on one side with a piece of butter. After you wrap the filling in it and put it on the plate, the pancakes will not stick to each other on each side.