Pancakes: a recipe for cooking amazingly delicious dishes

Pancakes, pancakes, lambs ... What a word they did not call this dish in Russia - a kind of pancakes. During the fast there was even a special day, when it was supposed to bake pancakes and pancakes. People said that "Oladnitsa" came. Usually it was Wednesday and mother-in-law on that day must have baked pancakes or fritters for their sons-in-law, who, by the way, were considered the sign of the highest arrangement. It was at that time that the proverb appeared: "To the mother-in-law for pancakes."

This culinary dish, popularly known among the people, is a small pan cake fried in a skillet, made from a batter based on eggs and flour mixed with curdled milk, sour cream, kefir, milk or water.

And today in many families bake pancakes. On the one hand - they are very easy and fast to cook, on the other hand - with the help of various sauces and sauces you can change their taste. Incidentally, a pancake recipe and a way of preparing which is similar to pancakes, are a favorite dish not only in Russia, but also in many other countries. Unlike pancakes, pancakes are prepared with the addition of yeast or soda, which gives them a splendor.

Pancakes recipes that contain sour cream, curdled milk or yogurt, are more luxurious, airy, and classic fritters, cooked in milk - come out more tender and softer. After fasting, simple muffins are usually baked on the water. Earlier they were baked from grain flour.

Pancakes can be sweet or unsweetened. To bake a sweet pancake recipe must contain sugar, honey or molasses. This dish is usually served on a table with butter, jam, sour cream or condensed milk.
Pancakes with a recipe that contains grated potatoes are called draniki.

To prepare simple unleavened pancakes, take 4 eggs, 500 milliliters of milk, 300 grams of flour (you can slightly more), one or two tablespoons of sugar, one teaspoon of salt and a pinch of soda. To make the fritters easier to turn, you need to add in the dough three tablespoons of vegetable oil.

First, in a cup, you need to beat eggs with salt and sugar, then pour in the milk and add flour. Soda, so that it evenly dispersed, you must first mix with flour, and you can put out, but it's better not with vinegar, but simply with boiling water. All is mixed and vegetable oil is added. Now the whisk should be beaten until the dough becomes homogeneous, without lumps, which can ruin the taste of pancakes and the appearance of the prepared dish.

Now let's talk about how to bake a yeast pancake recipe whose preparation is slightly different from a yeast, but it is also not difficult to perform. First you need to warm up half the milk to room temperature, then combine it with yeast and wait until they disperse. After that, add the eggs, salt and sugar and pour into the flour, stirring constantly. The resulting mass to put in a warm place.

After 20 minutes you need to heat the second half of the milk and pour it into the yeast mass. All the ingredients are intensively mixed, after which the fritters can be baked in a pan.
This culinary dish has one serious drawback - even simple pancakes recipe that includes wheat flour and milk, and fried in a large amount of sunflower or other oil are obtained very fat and high in calories, and therefore full people have them harmful.
You can make diet pancakes - in them the flour is replaced with oat flakes.

There are many recipes based on vegetables or fruits, with the addition of cottage cheese or grated cheese. Very popular squash pancakes. The bird and fish can also be used in fritters. Many people like to cook pancakes from the liver. To make the fritters small, the dough is spread on a frying pan with a tablespoon. And that they are roasted - their thickness should not exceed half a centimeter.