Potato Pancakes: Step By Step Recipes With Photos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Potato pranks: cook instantly and eaten even faster

Golden Belarusian potato pancakes conquer fried potato lovers. Appetizing, tasty, aromatic and satisfying food is popular in many European cuisines and continues to acquire more and more cooking options. The dish is prepared in 10-15 minutes, which is sure to please those who value time in gold. As for the calorie content, potato pancakes cannot be attributed to dietary dishes. However, occasionally you can relax and pamper yourself with something not very useful, but uniquely tasty.

Content

• 1 Step-by-step recipes for potato pancakes

  • 1.1 Classic recipe

    1.1.1 Video: potato pancakes without flour and eggs

  • 1.2 With minced meat

  • 1.3 With zucchini

    1.3.1 Video: zucchini and potato pancakes

  • 1.4 With cheese

    1.4.1 Video: pancakes with cheese

Step-by-step recipes for potato pancakes

Eager to make potato pancakes, I spent a lot of time trying to find the right recipe. Numerous culinary sites offer a wide variety of recipes, claiming that their recipe is the classic one. However, it is not. I have known a girl from Belarus for a long time, who has repeatedly told me that real potato pancakes are prepared only from potatoes with salt and are fried in pork fat. Therefore, all recipes where you see chicken eggs, flour, onions, herbs and other additives in the list of ingredients are variations of the main recipe.

Classic recipe

The secret of classic Belarusian potato pancakes lies in potatoes. Root crops grown on fertile lands are tasty, aromatic and healthy. For the preparation of neat pancakes that do not disintegrate when frying, it is recommended to use potato varieties with a high starch content (Istrinsky, Vestnik, Belousovsky, Orbita and others).

Ingredients:

• 6 potatoes;
• salt;
• pork fat for frying.

Preparation:

1. Peel potato tubers, wash and dry.

   

   Prepare potato pancakes from well-peeled tubers without spoilage

2. Grate the potatoes with a fine grater.

   

   You can use a grater or a food processor with special attachments to grind potatoes.
3. Squeeze out the potato juice lightly.
4. Toss the grated vegetable with 2-3 pinches of salt.

5. Heat the lard in a skillet.

   

   Melted pork fat is used for frying classic Belarusian potato pancakes.

6. Spread the potato mass with a spoon, shape the pancakes, fry until golden brown on both sides.

7. Serve the finished dish with sour cream.

   

   Potato pancakes are served hot

Video: potato pancakes without flour and eggs

With minced meat

As I said above, the classic recipe for potato pancakes has a huge number of variations. To make the dish more tasty and satisfying, many hostesses add minced meat or poultry to it.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 300 g minced chicken;
• 2 onions;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• salt to taste;
• sunflower oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Peel the onion. Chop one onion in a blender until puree, the second - cut into thin half rings.

   

   To obtain onion puree, grate the vegetable, chop in a blender or pass through a meat grinder

2. Mix the minced chicken with half the onion gruel, salt and black pepper to taste.

   

   Any minced poultry or meat can be added to the pancakes.

3. Fry the onions in half rings until golden brown in a frying pan with a little sunflower oil, then discard on a sieve or colander to drain the fat.

   

   Do not allow the onions to burn during frying, otherwise the taste of the dish will spoil.

4. Grate the peeled potatoes on a fine grater, mix immediately with the remaining onion puree. Salt the resulting mass at your discretion.

   

   Onion gruel will prevent the potatoes from darkening after rubbing

5. Using a large spoon, place the potatoes in portions into the hot skillet with butter, leveling them into thin, round pancakes.

   

   Potato pancakes can be fried both in lard and in sunflower oil

6. Put a thin minced meat cake on each piece.

   

   Try to form potato pancakes as quickly as possible so that the bottom of the potatoes does not start burning

7. Put the grated potatoes on top of the minced meat, lightly pressing them to the edges and the entire surface of each potato pan.

   

   To form neat potato pancakes, press the edges of the blanks with a tablespoon

8. When the pancakes are browned, gently turn them over with a spatula to the other side and also fry until blush.

   

   Fry the pancakes over low heat and carefully monitor the degree of browning

9. Place the prepared potato pancakes in a heat-resistant form and simmer in the oven for about a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.

   

   Simmering in the oven will make the pancakes very tender and juicy.

10. Serve the pancakes in portioned platters with fried onions on top.

    

    Fresh or pickled vegetables can be served as an addition to minced potato pancakes.

With zucchini

Juicy zucchini perfectly complement hearty potatoes. This combination is also found in recipes for potato pancakes.

Ingredients:

• 500 g potatoes;
• 500 g zucchini;
• 70 g of onions;
• 50 ml of kefir;
• 100 g semolina;
• 1/2 tsp soda;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 ml of sunflower oil;
• 1/2 tsp salt;
• a pinch of ground turmeric.

Preparation:

1. Prepare all the food you need.

   

   In addition to the ingredients suggested in the recipe, you can add aromatic garlic or fresh herbs to the pancakes.

2. Grate peeled potatoes and young zucchini on a coarse grater, onions on a fine grater.

3. Place shredded vegetables in a large bowl.

   

   If the zucchini is large, peel and seed them first

4. Add eggs, kefir, semolina and soda to the vegetables, mix everything well and leave for a third of an hour.

   

   Semolina will absorb excess vegetable juice and give the pancakes a firm texture

5. After 2 minutes, drain the excess liquid from the bowl of dough, then add the turmeric and salt.
6. Place the dough into a skillet with preheated oil to form small pancakes.

7. Fry the pancakes over medium heat on both sides until golden brown.

   

   To make the vegetables in potato pancakes well fried, cook the pancakes in a skillet under the lid

8. Serve the dish, garnish with fresh herbs.

   

   Before serving, the dish with potato pancakes can be decorated with sprigs of parsley or dill

Video: pancakes from zucchini and potatoes

With cheese

Despite the fact that I prefer to enjoy the taste of classic potato pancakes, the cheese recipe also caught my attention. And my husband, like a big fan of cheese, fell in love with it from the first preparation.

Ingredients:

• 500 g potatoes;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 4 tsp sour cream;
• 2 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 egg;
• 1/2 bunch of fresh dill;
• 1 pinch of black pepper;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• refined sunflower oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Place the items you want on your work surface.

   

   To prepare delicious pancakes, you need a simple set of products.

2. Grate the potatoes, peeled from dirt and skin, on a grater with medium or fine holes.

   

   It is recommended to grate potatoes for potato pancakes on a fine or medium grater.

3. Add an egg to the potatoes, stir the mixture quickly so that the potatoes do not darken.

   

   Quick mixing with chicken egg will keep the potatoes from browning

4. Add sour cream, black pepper and salt to the dough.

   

   The thicker the sour cream, the less liquid the dough will turn out.

5. Pour the sifted wheat flour into a bowl with potato mass, mix thoroughly so that no lumps remain.

   

   The flour sifted through a sieve will be saturated with oxygen and make the dough for potato pancakes more airy.

6. Transfer the grated hard cheese to the bowl with the pancakes.

   

   You can add any hard cheese to the dough

7. The next ingredients are minced garlic and chopped fresh dill.

   

   Garlic and dill will add a unique flavor to the dish

8. Stir all the ingredients well again.
9. Heat the sunflower oil in a skillet.
10. Spoon into small pancakes by placing the dough in hot oil.

11. Cook the pancakes over moderate heat, frying on each side for 2-3 minutes.

    

    Fry the potato pancakes until a delicious golden crust appears

12. Serve the hot meal with ketchup, sour cream, or mushroom sauce.

    

    For potato and cheese pancakes, you can offer herbs, vegetables and various sauces

Video: pancakes with cheese

And how many options for making delicious potato pancakes do you know? Share with us your recipes for this wonderful meal in the comments below. Bon appetit to you and your family!