If you want to make pancakes with filling, but you do not have time to make minced meat, vegetables and cereals, you will be helped out by stuffing for pancakes from ham and cheese. There are several options for this filler, but all its recipes are quite simple. You can carry out your plans quickly, and even an inexperienced cook can get an excellent result.
Cooking Features
If you have already baked pancakes and are thinking about what to fill them with, in order to turn them into a tasty, nourishing and at the same time elegant snack that you are not ashamed to put on the holiday table, you should try stuffing them with ham and cheese. A tasty filling will turn out if you combine only the two above-mentioned ingredients, but no one forbids you to add cheese and ham with tomatoes, peppers, herbs and other products. You will be able to come up with recipes filler, if you know the basic principles of its preparation and get acquainted with several of its most popular options.
- The taste of the filling directly depends on the quality of the cheese and ham. It is better to take a good processed cheese than hard, which is dominated by herbal ingredients and other additives, which should not be present in high-quality cheese. Ham must also be fresh, made from meat products of one of the highest categories.
- You can grind products for the filling grated or with a knife. If you want to grate ham and cheese, it will be easier to do this if you hold them for half an hour in the freezer.
- If the filling seems too dry, you can add a little sour cream or mayonnaise.
- When adding fresh vegetables to the filling, choose the least juicy, otherwise the filling will soften the dough. Tomatoes can only be used after juicy seed bags have been extracted. You can remove them with a spoon, cutting the fruit in half.
Filling pancakes with ham and cheese can be filled in the traditional way by putting a spoonful of filler on the pancake and folding the product into an envelope, then frying it in a pan or baking in the oven. But there is another way to use ham and cheese filling for making pancake snacks: they cover pancakes with it, put them in a pile, then warm up the snack cake in an oven or microwave to melt the cheese and put layers together.
Simple recipe for ham pancakes with cheese
Composition:
- ham - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh greens - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 20-40 ml;
- hard cheese - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Put the ham for half an hour in the freezer so that it is more convenient to grind the product afterwards.
- Chop grated cheese with large holes.
- Wash and dry greens, finely chop with a knife.
- Grind frozen ham on a coarse grater.
- Combine the ingredients by adding a spoonful of mayonnaise to them, mix.
You can do without mayonnaise, if you do not mix the products, and lay them on a pancake in layers. Then first put the ham, on it - greens, and on top of the products sprinkled with cheese.
Stuffing for pancakes with cheese, ham and tomatoes
Composition:
- ham - 0, 4 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - 40 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Wash tomatoes, dry with a napkin. Cut the fruit in half, with a small spoon choose juicy pulp with seeds. Cut the remaining flesh into small cubes. Put in a bowl.
- Dice the ham and cheese into cubes of the same size as the tomatoes. Put them in a bowl, where there are already slices of tomatoes.
- Add mayonnaise, mix.
It is advisable to use the filling immediately after it has been cooked. The cheese, having melted, will hold together the ingredients and will not allow the tomatoes to soak pancakes. But filling them out much more juicy than cooked without adding vegetables.
Pancake stuffed with ham, pepper and melted cheese
Composition:
- ham - 0, 3 kg;
- processed cheese - 0, 3 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Pepper wash, blot with a napkin. Remove the stalk from it with the seeds. Cut the pepper pulp into small squares.
- Put melted cheese for 20-30 minutes in the freezer, then grind it on a grater with large holes.
- Cut ham into small cubes.
- Fold the chopped products into a bowl, add mayonnaise to them. You can additionally add a spoon of ground paprika. Mix the products well.
It remains to fill the pancakes with the prepared mixture. They can be fried or baked in the oven, or they can be served cold, they will still be tasty.
Ham and cheese for pancake cake
Composition:
- ham - 0.5 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 0, 3 kg;
- fresh greens - 50 g;
- ketchup - 40 ml;
- mayonnaise - 0, 2 l;
- canned sliced champignons (optional) - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Chop the greens finely.
- Mix mayonnaise with ketchup.
- Chop ham and cheese separately on a grater. You need to grate the ham coarsely and the cheese finely.
- If you use champignons, open the jar, put the mushrooms on a sieve, let them dry a little.
- Put a pancake in the form, brush it with sauce, sprinkle with ham and greens, put a few plates of mushrooms on top, add cheese to the products, cover with second pancake. So collect the cake from 8-10 pancakes.
- Bake the pancake cake for 10 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180-200 degrees or for 2 minutes in the microwave, turning it on at maximum power.
Before serving, the snack pancake cake with a ham-cheese filling should be swept away with the remaining sauce and decorated with sprigs of fresh greens.
Ham and cheese can be the basis of a delicious and nourishing filling for pancakes. Preparing such a filler is quick and easy, but the snack with it is worthy of a festive table.
