Potato pancakes go well with fresh and canned vegetables, various sauces. Yes, and at a cost price, potato pancakes are inexpensive.
If you do not know how to cook potato pancakes, then it's time to get acquainted with the proven recipes for potato dishes. Having learned how to cook crispy round meat, you can diversify your diet, add a snack to your piggy bank that does not require a lot of time to create.
Potato pancakes
Potato pancakes are made from a minimal amount of ingredients, but at the same time they turn out to be incredibly tasty: crispy on the outside and airy on the inside.
To make potato pancakes, take:
- 5 medium-sized raw potatoes;
- 1 medium head of onion;
- 2 tbsp. l. kefir;
- 1 egg;
- Salt and spices to taste;
- Sunflower oil for frying.
Step by step potato pancakes are prepared as follows:
- Remove the husk from the onion and grate the peeled vegetable on a fine grater.
- Combine the onion gruel with kefir, mix thoroughly. It is worth noting that onions and fermented milk products are added to potato pancakes not only for taste, but also to preserve the color of the potatoes. Thanks to the sounded ingredients, the grated root vegetable does not darken and the dish turns out to have a beautiful golden hue.
- Wash the potatoes, peel, chop on a coarse shredder. Squeeze the resulting mass to remove excess liquid. If you don't remove excess water, potato pancakes will scatter.
- Combine a mixture of onion and kefir with a potato mass, beat in an egg, mix everything thoroughly. Add spices to taste, but be careful with aromatic herbs, otherwise the natural flavor of the dish will disappear.
- Pour vegetable oil into a preheated skillet and you can lay out the potato blank, armed with a tablespoon. Fry the darniki on both sides until golden brown.
Potato pancakes are recommended to be served with various vegetables and herbs, as well as sour cream.
Potato pancakes with carrots
Potato pancakes, the recipe for which we will now discuss, also contain carrots, so they turn out bright and beautiful.
To make potato pancakes, you need:
- 6 large potato tubers;
- 1 medium carrot;
- 6 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
- 2 raw chicken eggs;
- 1 head of onion;
- Vegetable oil for frying;
- Salt and spices to taste.
Stages of cooking potato pancakes:
- Wash vegetables, carrots and potatoes, remove the peel, chop on a coarse grater. Squeeze out any excess liquid from the potatoes before mixing the prepared vegetables.
- Peel the onion, chop it with a blender or meat grinder, you can grate it on a fine grater.
- Combine the onion mass with potatoes and carrots, add flour to the vegetable mixture, beat in eggs, add your favorite spices and salt, mix everything thoroughly. Make sure that the flour does not form lumps.
- Armed with a spoon, place the vegetable dough in a preheated skillet flavored with vegetable oil. Fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown. The cooking time of the dish will directly depend on the thickness of your potato pancakes.
The dish prepared according to this recipe is very tasty to eat with sour cream.
