Fragrant, crispy, incredibly tasty potato pancakes are very popular in many countries. They have different names, such as "turds" in Ukraine, "bramboraks" in the Czech Republic, "plyacks" in Poland. But in Russia they are known to us under the word "draniki".

Draniki is a traditional dish of Belarusians and their cuisine. As you know, potatoes are a favorite delicacy of Belarusians. Many of them sincerely believe that the first potatoes grew on Belarusian soil, and that it was not Peter the Great who brought them to Russia. Potatoes are eaten there in any form, but potato pancakes have a special place. Real Belarusian potato pancakes, crispy on the outside and soft inside, have a unique aroma and taste. They are eaten hot, most often with sour cream or its analogue, for example, the Belarusian “machanka”.

How to cook potato pancakes? It is quite easy and even an inexperienced cook can cope with this dish. However, if you want your potato pancakes to be really tasty, there are a few secrets you need to know.

Secrets of cooking potato pancakes.

If at the exit you want to get crispy pancakes, then the potatoes for them need to be chopped as finely as possible, preferably by hand on the smallest grater. However, a food processor or even a blender does not do a bad job with this process.
Potatoes must be grated as quickly as possible so that they do not darken. This can be avoided by adding finely chopped onions to it. You can also add a tablespoon of sour cream.
The resulting potato mass must be squeezed well. This must be done before adding onions to it. A smaller amount of liquid in the original product will make pancakes lush and prevent unpleasant splashing of oil during frying.
Do not add too much flour to potatoes. Flour makes pancakes less tasty and viscous inside. Such pancakes are poorly fried and lose their taste and aroma.
It is necessary to fry potato pancakes in a hot frying pan.
Pancakes do not need to be covered during frying.
After you fry the pancakes, place them on a paper towel to remove excess fat.

There are a huge number of recipes for making potato pancakes. They can be made with onions, garlic, herbs, with the addition of flour, eggs, and also made with a variety of fillings: cheese, minced meat, mushrooms.

They can be fried or baked. They can be made lean. Consider the 10 most popular and delicious recipes.

Recipe number 1. Traditional Belarusian potato pancakes.

How to cook Belarusian potato pancakes? Most often cooked without flour. The potatoes must be well pressed. In Belarus, even a child can cook such potato pancakes. How to cook real potato pancakes?

Ingredients:

1.5kg. potato
1 large onion
Salt to taste
frying oil
Sour cream for serving

Recipe:

Potatoes and onions need to be rubbed on a fine grater or chopped in a food processor.
Salt and mix well. Excess liquid must be drained.
Heat the frying pan well and fry the potato pancakes on both sides.
Serve draniki hot with sour cream or cracklings.

Recipe number 2. Potato pancakes "Traditional"

This recipe is very popular in Russia. To taste, they resemble everyone's favorite pancakes. They turn out fluffy, ruddy and fragrant.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg. potatoes
2 eggs
4 table. spoons of flour
frying oil

How to cook potato pancakes:

Grate potatoes or pass through a meat grinder. Drain excess juice.
Add eggs, mix well.
Add flour and salt and mix thoroughly to avoid lumps.
Heat the frying pan and fry the potato pancakes on both sides. Draniki fry instantly, so you need to watch them.

Recipe number 3. Lean pancakes.

These potato pancakes are made without eggs. In fact, they also turn out lush and do not fall apart. And for this you need to know one little trick. When potato pancakes are without eggs, the potatoes should be divided into two parts. Rub one part on a fine grater, the other on a coarse grater. You can also add some starch.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg. potatoes
1 table spoon of flour
1 teaspoon starch
Pepper
pinch of soda

Step-by-step instruction:

Grate potatoes, squeeze well.
Add flour, starch, soda, salt and pepper, mix.
Fry well on both sides.
Best served with sour cream or tomato sauce.

Eggless pancakes are good for vegetarians and vegans.

Recipe number 4 Draniki are delicious.

These pancakes are especially tasty and lush. The potatoes are cooked last. First, the dough is kneaded, into which the potatoes are then introduced.

Ingredients:

Potatoes 1 kg.
Onion -2 medium
Flour - 2 tablespoons
Milk or sour cream -2 tablespoons
Garlic -2 cloves
Salt, black pepper to taste

Cooking method:

Let's prepare the dough first. It is necessary to beat the eggs with salt and pepper, add chopped garlic to them, mix well.
Grate the onion on the smallest grater or put it in a meat grinder, drain the juice from it.
Finely grate the potatoes, drain the juice, quickly mix with onions.
Add milk or sour cream to the mixture of onions and potatoes.
Mix both mixtures and add flour. The consistency of the dough should resemble low-fat sour cream. Depending on this, the flour may take more or less.
Fry potato pancakes in a hot pan on both sides until cooked. To make potato pancakes more accurate, you can put them in the pan not with a tablespoon, but with a small spoon.
Serve hot, with sour cream.

Recipe number 6. Draniki with mushrooms.

The combination of potatoes and mushrooms is very popular. It's delicious and nutritious. In Ukraine, dranik is fried in the form of one large pancake, in the middle of which they put a spoonful of stuffing, usually mushroom. One pancake is enough to eat properly.

Ingredients:

1 kg. potato
300 grams of champignons
1 large onion
1 egg
2 table spoons of flour
Salt, pepper to taste
Vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

Wash mushrooms. Finely chop. Chop the onion.
Fry the onion in a pan, then add the mushrooms to it. Saute until all the liquid has evaporated from the mushrooms. Cool down.
Grate potatoes, add onion, egg, flour, salt and pepper. Mix well.
Add mushrooms to the potato mass, mix.
In a hot frying pan, fry potato pancakes from other sides. If the dough spreads during frying, you need to add another egg.

Recipe number 7. Draniki with cheese .

How to cook pancakes with cheese? If ordinary potato pancakes are tired, then it's time to move on to experiments! Potato pancakes with cheese are tasty and crispy. They taste like cheese chips and are very popular with children.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg. potato
5 table spoons of flour
1 bulb
200 grams of cheese 2 eggs

Cooking method:

Grate potatoes and onions, mix.
Add eggs, flour, salt.
Grate cheese and add to potatoes. To mix everything.
Fry on both sides.

Recipe number 8. Potato pancakes with meat .

These pancakes with minced meat are also an alternative to traditional pancakes. They will not leave indifferent the male half of the globe, because almost all men love potatoes and meat. How to cook potato pancakes with meat?

Ingredients:

1 kg. potato
1 large onion
1 large egg
2 table spoons of flour
300 grams of minced meat (pork, beef or mixed)
Salt pepper
Some milk, sour cream or cream

Cooking method:

Grate potatoes and onions. Mix. Add egg, flour, salt, pepper.
Make minced meat. To do this, twist the meat in a meat grinder. Minced meat should not be dry. To do this, add a little milk, cream or sour cream to the meat. You can also add water. To mix everything.
Mix potatoes and meat, fry on both sides until golden brown.

Draniki with minced meat are certainly not traditional, but nevertheless they are in demand.

Recipe number 9. Draniki baked in the oven.

These are not only delicious potato pancakes, the recipe of which we have provided you, but they are also healthy. When preparing them, a smaller amount of oil is used, and you can also cook a lot at once and not spend time on frying, but cook other dishes.

Ingredients:

1 kg. potato
2 medium onions
1 large egg
3 table spoons of flour
Salt pepper.

Cooking method:

Grate the potatoes, also grate the onion. Mix.
Add egg, flour, salt, mix.
Grease a baking sheet with olive oil, form round or oval cakes and send to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
Serve hot with sour cream or sauce.

Recipe number 10 Potato pancakes with zucchini.

This recipe is quite unusual, since not everyone will think of cooking zucchini pancakes. The taste of potato-zucchini potato pancakes is not like classic potato pancakes. However, such potato pancakes are more juicy and will replace boring potato pancakes.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg. potato
1 bulb
1 egg
500 grams of zucchini
3 table spoons of flour
Salt, black pepper to taste

Cooking method.

Grate potatoes. Add grated onion. Mix.
Add the egg, salt, pepper to the potato mass, stir well.
Grate the zucchini very finely, squeeze the resulting mass well, mix with potato dough.
Fry in a hot pan on both sides until a golden crust forms.
Serve hot with your choice of sauce.

No matter what potato pancakes you make, it is always tasty and healthy! Do not be afraid to experiment with ingredients and delight your loved ones. Bon Appetit!

Ah, potatoes, overeating! Hardly anyone can disagree with this. True, potatoes have not always been so popular. In Russia, he first appeared under Peter the Great, but was met with misunderstanding. For a long time, he was treated with caution and distrust. They considered him almost a “damn apple”. The main food root crop in those days was the turnip. Only during the reign of Catherine II, the potato gradually began to win the sympathy of the peasants, then completely, pushing the turnip aside, it became a very revered and beloved root crop.

Potatoes are good both boiled and fried, in the form of mashed potatoes and pancakes. Pancakes are a mass of chopped raw potatoes, with the addition of eggs and flour, which are fried like small pancakes in a pan in oil. Such a dish is found in many national cuisines, only differs in minor cooking options - garlic, apples, onions can be added to the dough or cooked without flour and eggs. But the main ingredient is always potatoes. Potato pancakes are also called differently. In Ukraine, they are more often spoken by "turds", in some areas - "kremzliks" or "tertyukhs", in Poland - "plyacks", in the Czech Republic - "bramboraks", in Russia - "terunets", "kakorki", "deriki", in Belarus - "pancakes". It was the Belarusian name that most of all took root and liked. Draniki are served hot, with butter, sour cream, cracklings, mayonnaise, ketchup, apple mousse. Sometimes, to diversify the dish, pancakes are made with meat, cheese, mushrooms.

Potato pancakes - food preparation

Cooking pancakes is quite simple and easy. The only time-consuming process is chopping potatoes. It is believed that in order for the pancakes to turn out to be especially tasty and fried, it is necessary to grind the potatoes manually on a grater, and it is on a fine one. Although this is a matter of personal tastes and preferences. So, to prepare potato pancakes, the tubers must be washed, peeled and chopped. In addition to a grater, a meat grinder and a food processor or blender also work well with this process. Then, guided by your desire or prescription, add eggs, flour, pepper, mushrooms, garlic, seasonings to the dough, or limit yourself to the only additional ingredient in the form of salt. The mass should be mixed well and fry the pancakes in hot oil, laying out with a large spoon. To speed up the frying process, you can use two pans at the same time.

Potato pancakes - the best recipes

Recipe 1: Potato pancakes - traditional

The simplest and most common pancakes. You can not say that they are very tasty, this is accepted by default. Potatoes just don't taste good. If you are preparing them for the first time, you can start with just such a recipe. The dough includes potatoes, flour and eggs. This is enough to get crunchy, mouth-watering, ruddy potato pancakes.

Ingredients: 4 potatoes, 4 tablespoons flour, 2 eggs, salt, vegetable oil.

Cooking method

Wash, peel and grate potato tubers - finely, coarsely, or pass through a meat grinder. Add eggs, flour, salt and mix thoroughly to avoid lumps.

Pour oil into the pan, wait until it is hot and put the potato mass with a spoon. When one side is browned, turn over. Potato pancakes are fried quite quickly, so it is better not to leave the pan.

Recipe 2: Potato pancakes without eggs

Eggless potato pancakes are a godsend for allergy sufferers, vegetarians and fasting people, and they turn out to be very tasty. And so that the pancakes do not fall apart when frying, there is one secret: you need to grate half the potatoes on a fine grater, the rest on a coarse grater. And you will need a little more oil than when frying potato pancakes without eggs.

Ingredients: 5 medium potatoes, salt, pepper, 1 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp. starch, vegetable oil, a pinch of soda.

Cooking method

Peel and grate potato tubers, as mentioned earlier, in half - on a fine and coarse grater. Squeeze. Add flour, starch, add the rest of the ingredients and mix. Heat the oil and spread the mass with wet hands or a tablespoon. Fry on both sides until a crust forms. You can serve with mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup. Or make a homemade tomato sauce: fry onion half rings, add slices of fresh peeled tomatoes and salt. After two or three minutes of stewing, add a little flour and boil until thickened. The sauce is ready.

Recipe 3: Potato pancakes with mushrooms

Potatoes, and even with mushrooms. It's fantastic! If ordinary potato pancakes are boring, you can cook pancakes with mushrooms - your household will be delighted with such yummy. Mushrooms should be finely chopped, fried with onions until the liquid evaporates, cool. Then they are added to the dough and fried like regular potato pancakes. Serve with sour cream. If suddenly the dough spreads in the pan and merges into one pancake, add another egg.

Ingredients: 4 large potato tubers (700-800g), 300g champignons, 1 large onion, 2 table. lies. flour, salt, 1 egg, pepper, vegetable oil.

Cooking method

Mushrooms, finely chop the onion. Fry in oil - first the onion, then add the mushrooms. Keep in the pan for fifteen minutes until the water evaporates.

While the mushrooms are cooling, peel and grate the potatoes, add the egg, salt and pepper. Add cooled mushrooms with onions, flour, mix well.

Heat the oil and fry the pancakes on both sides.

Recipe 4: Potato pancakes with cheese

Another option is how to diversify the taste of classic potato pancakes. It turns out mouth-watering potato-cheese fried cakes, somewhat similar in taste to cheese chips.

Ingredients: 5 potatoes, 5 tablespoons flour, 1 onion, 200g cheese, 2 eggs, salt, vegetable oil.

Cooking method

Coarsely or finely grate cheese, onions and peeled raw potatoes. Add eggs, salt, add flour, mix well.

Fry on both sides in hot oil.

- To get rid of excess fat, on which potato pancakes were fried, after frying, they must be blotted with a paper towel.

- If the finished potato pancakes have cooled down, they can be heated in a microwave or oven, and they will become hot and appetizing again.

- Finely grated onion added to the dough will not only improve the taste of potato pancakes, but also prevent the potatoes from darkening.

- So that potato pancakes do not burn and have a beautiful crust, it is necessary that the oil covers the bottom of the pan by about three millimeters.

- To make potato pancakes better fried, you can cover the pan from above with a lid.

Draniki are pancakes made from grated potatoes, onions, spices and sometimes eggs.

What to consider before preparing the test

It is best to use starchy varieties of potatoes. As a rule, they have a light brown skin and whitish flesh. Young potatoes will not work because they have less starch than old ones.
Potatoes are best grated on a fine grater. Just peel not all the potatoes at once, but 2-3 pieces. Otherwise, you will have to soak the tubers so that they do not darken. And in water, they will lose some of the necessary starch.
So that the grated potatoes do not darken, they must be rubbed alternately with onions. In addition, onion puree will also give the finished potato pancakes a wonderful aroma and golden color.
Instead of onions, you can add 1-2 tablespoons of sour cream. It will not allow the potatoes to darken, and will also make potato pancakes more airy.
If the grated potato has given too much juice, it can be squeezed out a little. But not much, otherwise the potato pancakes will turn out dry and tough. It is better not to pour out the liquid: it can come in handy at the end of cooking.
It is not necessary to add to classic potato pancakes. It is put in the event that there is not enough starch in the potatoes. The egg will keep the dough from falling apart.
Do not add flour: it can make potato pancakes "rubber" and tasteless. If the dough is too liquid, it is better to add a little starch. You can use purchased, or you can take the starch that settles on the bottom of the container with potato juice.

Over time, many different recipes for potato pancakes appeared, but potatoes always remain the same ingredient. Here are some of the best options for potato pancakes.

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Ingredients

5–7 potatoes;
1 onion;
salt - to taste;
1 egg - optional;

Cooking

Grate potatoes and onions. Add salt and mix thoroughly. Add egg and starch, if necessary, and mix until smooth.

postila.ru

Ingredients

100 g of hard cheese;
1 clove of garlic;
5–7 potatoes;
1 onion;
salt - to taste;
1 egg - optional;
1-2 tablespoons of starch - optional.

Cooking

Grate cheese and garlic. Grate potatoes and onions alternately. Add cheese and spices to this mixture and mix well. If the cheese is salty enough, then you can not put salt or put just a little bit. If necessary, add egg and starch to the dough.

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Ingredients

200-300 g minced meat (you can take any meat, such as pork, beef or);
2 onions;
salt - to taste;
ground black pepper - to taste;
5–7 potatoes;
1 egg - optional;
1-2 tablespoons of starch - optional.

Cooking

Add 1 grated onion, salt and pepper to the minced meat and mix. You can add other spices of your choice. Grate the potato and the second onion in turn. Add some spices and, if required, egg and starch and mix thoroughly.

You can simply mix minced meat and potatoes, or you can make potato pancakes with filling. You can find below how to prepare them.

postila.ru

Ingredients

200-300 g of champignons;
a little vegetable oil;
5–7 potatoes;
1 onion;
salt - to taste;
ground black pepper - to taste;
1 egg - optional;
1-2 tablespoons of starch - optional.

Cooking

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Ingredients

300 g pumpkin;
5–7 potatoes;
1 onion;
salt - to taste;
1 egg - optional;
1-2 tablespoons of starch - optional.

Cooking

Grate the pumpkin. Grate potatoes and onions alternately. Mix these ingredients, add salt and, if necessary, egg and starch.

How to fry pancakes without stuffing

Draniki are fried in a hot frying pan with heated vegetable or butter. It should cover the potato pancakes by about half. Then they will get a delicious crispy crust.

It is better to heat the oil in the pan in advance. As soon as the dough for pancakes is ready, you need to immediately start frying.

Scoop the potato mass with a tablespoon and put it in the pan, leveling with a spoon. The thinner the layer of dough, the more crispy the pancakes will turn out.

Fry potato pancakes over medium heat for several minutes on both sides: the crust should turn golden. The cooking time depends on the thickness of the pancakes. It will take about 3-5 minutes for each side of thin fritters, and 7-10 minutes for thick fritters.

Before frying each subsequent portion of potato pancakes, mix thoroughly. The starch in its composition can settle to the bottom, then potato pancakes will not keep their shape well.

After frying, put the pancakes on a paper towel to drain excess fat from them.

Pour the potato mixture into the skillet and spread evenly. Immediately top them with small meatballs, mushrooms, or other ingredients of your choice. Then cover the filling with another spoonful of dough and fry pancakes in the same way as regular pancakes.

How to serve potato pancakes

The best potato pancakes are freshly cooked. They don't taste as good when cold.

Draniki are considered an independent dish. Most often they are served with sour cream and fresh herbs. But you can also use it according to your taste.

Feb 03 2017

How to cook the most delicious potato pancakes?

Hello, my dear friends, regular readers and random visitors!

Oh, something so drannikov wanted! I want to cook the most delicious! This is me losing weight for the summer. And, anyway, Maslenitsa is coming soon. After that, I'll start. Today potatoes are on the agenda!

We have already prepared with you, and even.

But there are many more recipes. While looking, I learned so many new and interesting things.

It is believed that potato pancakes were invented in Belarus. And the name came from there. It is the most common dish there, it is even served in even the most expensive restaurants. And they cook mainly from potatoes and onions.

But here in Russia in different regions they call it differently: kakorki, teruns, teruns, terunki, deriki. And they cook everything in their own way.

But there are some common features and now I will talk about them.

For pancakes, yellow potatoes are best, they contain a lot of starch. And for some reason, they are the most delicious from it.
So that the potatoes do not darken, it is necessary to grind them mixed with onions, one potato, onion, again potatoes and onions.
The best spices for potato pancakes are curry, ground black pepper, coriander, marjoram, red pepper, white mustard, dried dill, garlic, sweet pepper and chili pepper
Do not put too thick pancakes on the pan, they may not be fried inside
The prepared Belarusian delicacy must be laid out on a towel, which will remove excess vegetable oil.
Belarusians have a secret - they use a special grater for hash browns. It looks like a small grater, which is found in almost every kitchen. But I prefer the big one. Completely different taste.

My favorite simple pancakes without flour are potatoes, eggs and salt. But the diet needs to be diversified, so I have collected several recipes. I've tried everything. All awesome, for those who understand. And my family loved the cheese ones. She treated her friend to mushrooms - she liked it. In general, the taste, the color. Choose for yourself what you like.

Traditional Belarusian draniki

- 3-4 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Salt and pepper to taste
frying oil
Sour cream - for serving, no way without it

Grate potatoes with onions. You can do this in a food processor, it's faster and there will be no tears from the onion. Put in a bowl. You can remove excess juice, just squeeze.

Add salt and pepper.

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry. Three minutes on each side, then you can still hold a little under the lid - this is for softness. I love crunchy ones, so I immediately put them on a napkin so that excess oil is gone.

Serve immediately with sour cream while still hot.

The most delicious pancakes with cheese

Potato -3-4 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
- 100 g
Salt and pepper - to taste.
Vegetable oil for frying
Sour cream for serving

We rub raw potatoes with onions. Add egg, flour, salt, pepper and grated cheese. We mix everything until a homogeneous mass.

Fry on both sides for about 3 minutes until golden brown.

There is another option. We do not add cheese to the dough, but simply sprinkle it on top of almost ready-made cakes, cover with a lid and let the cheese melt.

Serve hot with sour cream. Mmmm the cheese is stretching, so appetizing!

From potatoes with mushrooms

Potato -3-4 pcs.
- 200 g
Onion - 1 pc.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
Cheese - 100 g
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying
Butter for frying mushrooms

Finely chop the mushrooms and fry in butter with onions.

Now we rub the potatoes, add the egg, salt, spices, flour to it, knead well. Now the cooled mushrooms. We mix. We fry.

Another option. You can not add mushrooms to the dough, but make bigger cakes and

wrap mushrooms in them as a filling.

From potatoes with pumpkin

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 200 g
Milk - a third of a glass
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

Grate potatoes and pumpkin.

Now you need to boil milk and pour potatoes over it, let it stand for 5 minutes, soak. Then the milk can be drained through a colander. Add the grated pumpkin to the potatoes, mix. Now the egg - you need to separate the yolk from the protein, add the yolk immediately, and beat the protein with a whisk and carefully add to the dough. Now flour, salt and spices.

Heat the frying pan well, put some butter there and fry our potato pancakes on both sides. At the end, cover with a lid and let it sweat a little, for softness.

And serve hot with sour cream. Incredibly tasty for those who love pumpkin.

With tomatoes and herbs

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 2-3 pcs.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Greens to taste
Garlic 1-2 cloves
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

As always, we rub raw potatoes, add flour, salt, spices, garlic (through a garlic press). Finely chop the tomatoes and greens too and add them to the dough

Fry until golden crisp.

There is a vegan version without eggs. They won't fall apart. The taste doesn't change at all. Try it.

With zucchini

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 1 PC.
Egg - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Greens to taste
Garlic 1-2 cloves
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

Potato, onion, zucchini. wash, clean, rub. There is a lot of juice in the zucchini, it is better to squeeze it out by hand or let it drain in a colander. Add flour, salt, spices, egg.

In this recipe, you can not add garlic to the dough, but put it between the cakes when frying. It will give off its scent. It will be amazingly delicious.

With cottage cheese

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 200 g
Egg - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Dill - to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable oil

Here it's a little different. First mix cottage cheese with dill, salt and pepper. Then grate the potatoes, add flour, a little salt, an egg, knead.

Pour oil into the pan, let it warm up well, put a spoonful of potatoes, then a spoonful of cottage cheese, and potatoes again on top. Such a puff pastry.

Very tasty with sour cream. Real jam!

And finally, I have a couple of secrets:

Serve potato pancakes only piping hot, hot. Cold they lose their unique taste, especially cheese ones.

If the dough turns out to be liquid, you can add flour, or you can simply drain or squeeze out the excess.

Sometimes potato pancakes are called pancakes. Yes, they are a bit similar. But pancakes, as a rule, do not contain seasonings and onions.

Everything for today! We have prepared the most delicious potato pancakes, I hope you succeeded. What do you cook at home? Share your secrets in the comments.

How to cook potato pancakes - the best recipes

Learn from the article how to cook real tasty and simple potato pancakes, how and with what to serve them to the table. The recipe will not leave anyone indifferent

20 minutes

200 kcal

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This dish of Belarusian cuisine has long gained popularity in different cities of Europe. It is very tasty, and cooking it is so easy and fast that any hostess can learn this skill.

What are pancakes

Draniki are pancakes made from potatoes. In Ukraine they are traditionally called potato pancakes, but in Russia Terunami or kakorami. In Europe, this dish became known in the 19th century, and thanks to the Polish people it appeared in Russia.

Although any potato is suitable for their preparation, some culinary experts believe that the best pancakes are made from Belarusian varieties. Probably because potatoes grown on their lands are more starchy and delicate in taste.

It is interesting that similar ones are found in the cuisines of different countries of the world, but traditionally it considered Belarusian.

Why is this dish so delicious?

Draniki are loved by both adults and children. And how can you not love them if they are prepared from a vegetable that about 80% of people around the world love. This vegetable is sometimes called the second bread, and more than 110 culinary creations can be made from it.

Real potato pancakes have crispy golden crust, and inside they are juicy, tender and fragrant. They can be treated to guests, complement the festive table, cook for breakfast or take with you to work. You can also easily cook - such a dish will be even more nutritious.

Step by step cooking recipe

How to make potato pancakes on your own?

We will need:

Cooking steps:

Peeled potatoes need to be grated.

Advice: you can grind vegetables in a food processor (with a special nozzle) or in a meat grinder. Just don't use a blender, as the vegetables shouldn't turn into a puree.

Vegetable juice must be drained and squeezed.
Grate the onion or chop finely with a knife and pour it into the potatoes.
Salt, pepper, chopped fresh dill, flour and eggs are placed in a bowl and everything is thoroughly mixed.
Put a frying pan on the stove, pour oil. When the pan is hot, you need to fry the potato pancakes on one side, and then on the second until a golden brown crust is formed.

It is most convenient to apply the potato mass with a spoon. In shape, they should look like pancakes.

To make pancakes juicy and golden, should be fried in a hot frying pan in a large amount of oil.
So that the dish is not too oily and greasy, after frying, put the pancakes on paper napkins and then transfer them to a plate.
Try to choose starchy potatoes. It is better to choose Belarusian varieties. The taste of the dish and the shape of potato pancakes will depend on this. Not suitable for cooking young potatoes.
If you doubt the quality of the potatoes, you can add during the cooking process 0.5-1 tablespoon of starch.
If before frying it seems that the mass is too liquid, you do not need to add flour, as the pancakes will turn out hard. It is better to put a little starch.
In traditional cooking, vegetables are grated, but to spend less time cooking, you can use a food processor.

How to serve the dish

Traditionally, pancakes are served on the table hot with sour cream. You can decorate them with fresh herbs or cranberries. You can put lettuce leaves on a plate, and potato pancakes on top.
During cooking, you can add boiled champignons, finely chopped carrots or apples.
There is a wide variety of sauces for potato pancakes. You can make your own sauce.

Simple mushroom sauce

We will need: champignons (200 grams), onion, 200 ml of sour cream, a piece of butter, salt and pepper.

Cooking steps:

Finely chop the onion into cubes, and the mushrooms into thin slices
Tip: it is better to boil the mushrooms in advance, and then lightly fry them.
Fry mushrooms separately until golden brown and onions.
Then we shift the mushrooms to the onion, add sour cream, pepper and salt. Simmer for a few minutes and you're done!
Drizzle draniki with sauce and serve.

Advice: The sauce should be dealt with before cooking potato pancakes to serve them hot from the stove

As you can see, this dish is very easy and simple to prepare. Your family and guests will love it!

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