In Belarus, pancakes are called pancakes made from raw grated potatoes. Under various names, similar dishes exist in the national cuisines of other countries. There are a lot of recipes for pancakes. The traditional recipe involves the use of only potatoes and onions. There are more complex recipes, which include flour, garlic, starch, eggs and other products. Potato pancakes with cheese, which can be fried in a pan or baked in the oven, have an unusual taste. Cheese gives them a pleasant creamy taste, makes it even more tender and juicy.
Cooking Features
Potato pancakes with cheese are prepared in almost the same way as usual in a traditional recipe. However, ordinary pancakes are hard to make tasty and beautiful, if you do not know a few secrets.
- Potatoes contain starch, which acts as a binder ingredient. In new potatoes, a little, in the old - a lot. The amount of starch in the potato depends on the variety of this vegetable. Therefore, for pancakes should be taken mature potato varieties, characterized by a high starch content. This is especially true in the case when the pancakes are cooked without eggs and flour.
- Potatoes, when exposed to air, tend to darken, but the gray color of the pancakes does not look too appetizing. Save the situation will help onions. It is necessary to grind and combine with potatoes immediately, as it will be rubbed. You can even chop the potatoes and onions, alternating.
- Dough for pancakes should not be too thin. Therefore, the potato mass should be squeezed through a gauze folded in three layers. If after this the dough seems to be watery, you can thicken it with the help of starch or flour. However, flour should not be much, because the more of it, the fatter and firmer will be pancakes. If you do not want them to resemble rubber, it is worth confining 2-4 spoons of flour per kilogram of potatoes, you can do without it.
- If the pancakes are fried in a pan, the dough is spread on a hot skillet in boiling oil. In this case, the oil level should reach the middle of the pancakes. Only in this case they will turn out smooth, appetizing, with crispy edges, tender inside.
Potato pancakes with cheese can be served, like traditional ones, with sour cream. However, cheese goes well with tomato sauce, so that ketchup can also be considered as a variant of the sauce for this dish.
Potato pancakes with cheese in a pan
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- wheat flour - 20 g;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Clean, wash the potatoes. Drain the tubers with a napkin and coarsely rub.
- Grind on a grater or onion using a blender, mix onion puree with potato.
- Whisk the eggs, combine with the potatoes.
- On a coarse grater, chop the cheese, put it in a potato mass, mix.
- Salt and pepper, thicken the potato dough with flour.
- Heat oil in a pan. Type in a tablespoon of dough, put in boiling oil, gently apply it with the back of a spoon, giving the dranik a flat shape. At a distance of about 5 mm from him put another spoonful of dough. Thus fill the pan.
- Fry the pancakes over medium heat for about 4-5 minutes, then turn over with a broad spatula and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
- Put the pancakes on paper napkins to remove excess oil.
Serve potato pancakes with cheese made according to this recipe with sour cream or mayonnaise. Well suited sauce made from a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. Greens on the plate will not be superfluous.
Potato pancakes with cheese and meat in the oven
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- ground beef - 0, 5 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 50 g;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - how much will leave;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Coarsely rub the potatoes, having washed and peeled them beforehand. Salt, let stand 5 minutes. Squeeze out extra juice from the potato mass.
- Crank through a meat grinder or chop the onion in another way. You can even chop it with a knife. Mix with potatoes.
- Cut the second onion into thin rings or half rings.
- Add eggs to the vegetable mass, salt, pepper, flour. Stir until a homogeneous consistency, no lumps.
- Salt and pepper the minced meat.
- Lubricate the baking dish. Form a flat cake the size of the central part of the palm of the potato dough, put them in shape.
- Smear the pancakes with mayonnaise, put the minced meat on top. Sprinkle the pancakes with onions. Put a layer of grated potatoes on top.
- Put the pancake form in a preheated oven to 200 degrees.
- After 20 minutes, remove the pancake from the oven.
- Finely rub hard cheese and sprinkle the back of the pancakes.
- Return the form with pancakes to the oven for another 10 minutes.
The dish prepared according to this recipe is a hearty and very tasty snack. The crust of melted cheese makes pancakes especially appetizing.
Potato pancakes with cheese and mushrooms in pots
Composition:
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- wheat flour - 40 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- butter - 80 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- onions - 75 g;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Chop the onion in a blender, put in a bowl.
- Peel potatoes and rub on a fine grater, mixed with onions.
- Squeeze the juice from the vegetable mass, let it stand, drain, leaving starch settled on the bottom.
- Add the starch and flour (half indicated in the recipe) to the vegetable mass, pepper and salt it, put the eggs and garlic passed through the press.
- Mix thoroughly so that no lumps remain.
- Coarsely grate the cheese, mix half with the potato base.
- Heat the vegetable oil in a pan and fry the pancakes in it.
- Grease the pots with butter.
- Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
- In a clean frying pan, melt the remaining butter and fry the mushrooms on it until the excess moisture evaporates.
- Sprinkle the mushrooms with the remaining flour, fry a little. Pour in, stirring carefully, sour cream. Stir to the extent that the sauce in the pan has acquired a homogeneous consistency, rather thick.
- Put a few pancakes on the bottom of the pots, brush them with the sauce. By alternating layers in this way, fill the pots.
- Sprinkle the contents of the pots with the remaining cheese.
- Place the peas on a baking sheet and send them to the oven. Covers do not need to close.
- Turn on the oven and cook the dish for 10 minutes after the oven temperature reaches 180 degrees.
For pancake pancakes cooked with cheese, neither a side dish nor a sauce is required. This dish is self-sufficient. Having prepared it at least once, you will begin to do it as often as possible.
Potato pancakes with cheese - a delicious and delicious dish. There are several recipes for its preparation, and for each of them it is possible to make pancakes with a unique taste.
