Pancakes are prepared simply, they turn out delicious and look beautiful. The dough is kneaded quickly, and they can be served as an appetizer, as a main course, and as a dessert. You just need to change the components a little.
Pancakes are small tortillas that can be baked from both yeast and unleavened dough. To cook them properly, you need dough, good oil and a frying pan - preferably cast iron. The more the oil warms up, the better the pancakes will be fried, the more rosy and appetizing they will look.
This dough can be used for a wide variety of pancakes, by slightly modifying or adding ingredients. For him you need to prepare:
2 cups of flour;
2 eggs;
1 glass of sour cream;
2 tbsp Sahara;
½ tsp soda;
2 tbsp butter;
Salt to taste.
Sweet pancakes
1. The simplest thing is to prepare sour cream pancakes on this basis, to which you can add any jam, preserves or honey. Pour a glass of sour cream into a saucepan, grind the yolks with salt and sugar and add there, put flour and softened butter, mix. Now pour the egg whites, soda diluted in milk into the dough. Bake pancakes in a frying pan.
2. Fritters with cherries. Do the dough in the same way, only replace sour cream with a mixture of milk and warm boiled water, and soda with baking powder. Add dried pitted cherries - about 4 tablespoons. Place all dough ingredients in a deep saucepan and beat thoroughly with a whisk. Add the cherries and stir everything. The pancake dough is ready - you can start frying.
3. Pancakes with strawberries. Add lemon to the ingredients, 250 gr. strawberries, 250 gr. cottage cheese. You will need one egg - you need to beat it with butter and a part of granulated sugar, add lemon zest, cottage cheese, flour there, salt. The dough should stand for about 20 minutes. Add juice from half a lemon, turn strawberries into puree and mix everything with sugar. After frying the pancakes, pour the strawberry mass over them.
4. Fritters with apples. For the dough, instead of milk or sour cream, take kefir, add 5-7 medium-sized apples. Cut the apples into small pieces. Make the dough, as in the first option, adding pieces of apples there. Ready-made pancakes can be sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar.
Pancakes with additives
5. Pancakes with cheese. The dough is kneaded from milk, flour, eggs until the consistency of thick sour cream. 250 g cut the cheese into thin pieces. To prepare pancakes, a spoonful of dough is poured into a frying pan, a piece of cheese is placed on top, and fried on both sides.
6. Zucchini fritters. Chop the zucchini, simmer until softened, rub and cool. Add mashed potatoes to the prepared dough; you can skip dairy products. Fry pancakes from this dough, serve with any sauce.
7. American pancakes. Mix flour and sugar, add 2 tbsp. baking powder. In a separate bowl, beat eggs, buttermilk and melted butter. Fry each side for two minutes. Serve with maple syrup.
8. Spicy pancakes. Add three tablespoons of grated cheese to the dough, 150 gr. bacon, cut into thin slices and pan-dried. Fry pancakes until golden brown.
9. Pancakes with curdled milk. Everything is very simple: use yogurt instead of sour cream or milk in the dough.
10. Yeast pancakes. Add sugar, milk, flour to yeast (25 gr.) And let the dough rise properly. Add the whipped egg whites. Ready-made pancakes can be served with anything - from preserves and jams to thick sauces with meat.
