Russian cuisine has always been famous for its pancakes. The pancake theme becomes especially relevant during Shrovetide. The hostesses are sophisticated in their culinary skills and delight guests with lacy, silk pancakes with and without various fillings.
Unusual pancakes can be prepared with a small addition of spinach paste to the dough, because spinach is a natural natural dye. Such pancakes will differ from the usual ones not only by their peculiar taste, but also by their original color.
Lacy green pancakes
For cooking you will need:
- milk - 200 ml; - mineral water - 100 ml; - raw eggs - 3 pieces; - spinach paste - 1 tbsp. the spoon; - flour - 1-1.5 cups; - vegetable oil - 1/3 cup; - spinach - 50 grams; - salt - a pinch.
For these fancy pancakes, you need to prepare a spinach paste first. You should rinse the spinach leaves and dry them a little, then cut into small strips. Heat a spoonful of oil in a skillet and add the chopped spinach. It is necessary to fry the spinach over low heat until it softens a little. Then the resulting mass should be put in a bowl and grind everything with a blender.
Now you can start directly preparing the pancake dough. To do this, heat a little milk and mix it together with sparkling mineral water. Due to the gas bubbles, your pancakes will turn out to be "lacy". Add a pinch of salt to the liquid, then beat in three eggs and mix everything.
Take one tablespoon from the finished spinach paste and add it to the total mass, mix all the ingredients to get a mass of the same color. Now you can gradually add flour to the dough. Do not pour all the flour in one go, as lumps can form. When you add all the flour to the dough, add vegetable oil there and beat the pancake dough until smooth. The best way to do this is to use a mixer.
Bake pancakes in a skillet without adding oil on both sides. Ready-made green lace pancakes can be served with caviar or red fish.
Optionally, you can make green spring rolls, for this take:
- cottage cheese - 200 grams; - dill - 1 bunch; - mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Rinse the dill greens, shake off excess moisture, dry and then chop. Crush the curd with a fork, add mayonnaise and chopped dill to it, mix the curd filling. Put the curd-dill mass on the edge of the pancake, roll the pancake with a tube.
Silk pancakes
You will need the following products:
- sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons; - raw eggs - 10 pieces; - salt - 1 tsp; - flour - 13 tbsp. spoons; - warm milk - 1 liter; - corn oil - 1/3 cup.
First, mix the sugar and salt, then break a dozen eggs and combine them with the previous ingredients, pour the egg mass into a mixer and beat the composition into a strong foam. Sift the wheat flour and add it to the mixer, stir the ingredients. Heat the milk, then pour it into the mixer too. Whisk the pancake dough well and pour into a deep bowl.
Leave the dough to infuse for 30 minutes, then add corn oil to it, stir and bake the pancakes in a pan without using additional grease. You will have excellent delicate silk pancakes that can be served with honey, jam or filled with any sweet filling.
