Lenten and pumpkin pancakes - simple, tasty and healthy

In Russia, pancakes are known since the 16th century, the majority of Russians have grown on them. It is not difficult to cook them, they always turn out to be satisfying and tasty. Many nutritionists do not recommend too often to eat classic yeast pancakes and advise to prepare vegetable, fruit, liver, wheat - they are most useful and low-calorie.

The secret of such popularity is in their variety and simplicity. You can add apples, dried fruits and even grated cheeses to the dough. In days of fasting, pumpkin pancakes, squash, cabbage and potatoes are perfect - this is an excellent alternative to meat and fatty dishes. To pancakes you can serve condensed milk, honey, sour cream, jam, jam.

Especially delicious pancakes like children, they are happy to help my mother knead the dough and fry them in a frying pan. In antiquity there was a saying: "there, where pancakes - there it is fine". In this article, we'll talk about pumpkin and lean fritters, which you can eat even those who watch the figure.

Let's start with the pumpkin, as the pumpkin is known for - it is a well of useful microelements and vitamins. She still has a curative effect, she has practically no contraindications. It is not for nothing that pumpkin puree is recommended for early baby food. It is thanks to its healing properties that pumpkin is an indispensable vegetable in cooking.

Today we will try at home to cook delicious and flavorful pumpkin pancakes, which will surely be appreciated by you.

Pumpkin Pancakes

For preparation we need the following ingredients:

• Pumpkin 300 g;
• Kefir or curdled milk 200 g;
• a glass of flour;
• Sugar, soda, vanillin;
• 1 egg;
• butter.

Preparation

Kefir is mixed with egg, flour, sugar, vanillin, add the cleaned and mashed pumpkin - mix well. Butter is heated and we lower the formed fritters in it, fry it from two sides.

Little details for getting lush and tender pancakes from a pumpkin :

• The dough should look like a thick sour cream;
• For the splendor use an ancient recipe: in the dough you need to pour in 20 gr. Not strong beer;
• So that the pumpkin pancakes were not too fat, they are best fried in a small amount of oil, and then spread on a napkin.

Oatmeal fastened pancakes

Pancake pancakes can be prepared in various combinations and interpretations, they do not include those ingredients (eggs, kefir), which form the basis of rich and fragrant fritters. However, they do not lose their taste and attractive appearance, especially if they are poured with jam or syrup. They are prepared even faster and easier.

Composition:

• On 200 gr. Oatmeal and wheat flour;
• Two glasses of water;
• Half a teaspoon of yeast;
• Sugar, salt and vegetable oil.

Cooking process

The flour must necessarily be sifted so that the pancakes are lush, add warm water and leave for half an hour to "come up". After the bubbles appear in the test, add sugar, salt and vegetable oil, while gently stirring the whisk or mixer.

Leave the dough for half an hour before the formation of air bubbles. After the time has passed, you can start baking. Everything is ready - a pleasant appetite.

It is not important, pumpkin pancakes or lean you cook, the main thing - to approach this process with the maximum share of imagination. In the dough you can add frozen berries (strawberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries) - then you will get berry pastries. Well combined with fritters dried apricots, raisins, prunes, banana.

If you put cocoa in one part of the dough, and bake ordinary pancakes from the second part, you will get an unusual dessert in black and white, they can be combined with condensed milk or honey. With the help of various molds, you can make interesting figures from the dough, such original pancakes, no doubt, like children. For decoration used melted chocolate and food colorings.