Many people are aware of the fact that the pumpkin is useful, but very few people know that you can cook from it besides porridge. Among the delicious dishes from this vegetable are pumpkin pancakes, which are eaten not only by adults, but also by children. You can make this dish in different ways, but many hostesses prefer to cook pumpkin pancakes on kefir. These products are always lush and do not lose their appetizing appearance and pleasant taste for a long time. They become even more tasty if the main ingredient is supplemented with other vegetables or fruits, and you can use both fresh and dried. Pumpkin pancakes are served with sour cream, condensed milk or jam, although they are tasty on their own.
Cooking Features
Cooking pumpkin pancakes on kefir will not be a difficult task even for a novice chef, if he knows the peculiarities of this process.
- Fritters can be made from both fresh and stewed, boiled pumpkin, but it is always crushed beforehand. The easiest way to do this is to grate. It is recommended to use a side with medium-sized holes: fritters from coarsely grated pumpkin turn out rough, uneven and little appetizing, and crushed too much, it lets out a lot of juice.
- Pumpkin for pancakes is desirable to take nutmeg varieties. It is the most fragrant, has delicate pulp and bright color.
- Flour is desirable to choose the highest grade, or at least the first. From second-rate flour products are obtained grayish in appearance, have a specific flavor.
- Flour is required to sift before combining with other ingredients. This is necessary not only to rid it of small litter and insect larvae. The main task is to saturate the flour with oxygen. After sifting, it becomes easy. Such flour is easily combined with other components, without forming lumps. Products from it turn out more magnificent and air.
- Kefir for pumpkin fritters can be used with any fat content. Some believe that the most magnificent dough is obtained if you use sour milk product. However, pathogenic microorganisms develop in the spoiled kefir, which makes this idea not very good. It is better to use yesterday or the day before yesterday, but not yet spoiled product.
- For fluffiness, baking powder is added to the dough. In its quality often use soda. If kefir is sour enough, you don't even need to quench it with vinegar before adding to the dough.
- Ready-made dough for pancakes should have a consistency resembling home-made sour cream. It should not fall flour lumps. Spread the dough on a hot and oil-covered pan with a spoon, fry to an appetizing blush on both sides. After removing the first batch of products from the pan, wipe it with a dry cloth, cover it with a new layer of oil, and only then spread the next portion of dough.
- Ready-made pancakes should be put on a napkin so that it absorbs excess fat. Only after that they are shifted to a dish or laid out on plates, served to the table.
Pumpkin fritters on kefir are usually made with sugar. But there are unsweetened options for this dish. If you follow the figure, you can make pumpkin pancakes without adding sugar, they will still come out delicious.
The classic recipe for pumpkin fritters on yogurt
Composition:
- pumpkin pulp - 0, 4 kg;
- kefir - 0, 2 l;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- sugar - 20-40 g;
- wheat flour - 140 g;
- soda - 10 g;
- cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg (optional) - to taste;
- refined vegetable oil - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pumpkin, remove the skin from it, remove the seeds. Grind the cleaned pulp on a medium grater, squeeze, drain the excess juice.
- Remove the kefir and eggs from the refrigerator in advance so that they can warm up to room temperature.
- Sift flour.
- Break eggs into a bowl, add sugar and salt to them, pound with a whisk.
- Pour kefir into the eggs, add soda. Whisk the products with a whisk.
- Add flour and stir the dough until smooth, so that it does not come across flour lumps. At this stage, you can use the mixer.
- Add spices and prepared pumpkin. Stir, trying to distribute the pumpkin in the dough evenly. If necessary, add a little more kefir so that the dough is not too thick.
- Pour some oil into the pan, heat it up. Spread the dough with a spoon, leaving a small distance between its portions so that the pancakes do not stick together during the frying process.
- When fritters are reddened on one side, turn them over, fry them on the other side. Put on a napkin.
- If necessary, remove pieces of burnt dough from the pan, add a little oil, and fry the next batch of fritters.
Similarly, fry the remaining pancakes, put them on the platter. Serve at the table. To pancakes offer sour cream, jam or condensed milk.
Pumpkin Fritters with Raisins
Composition:
- pumpkin pulp - 0, 3 kg;
- raisins - 30 g;
- starch - 10 g;
- flour - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- salt - a pinch;
- kefir - 125 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- vanillin - 1 g;
- baking powder for dough - 10 g;
- refined vegetable oil, water - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Pour boiling water over raisins, leave for 15 minutes. Drain water. Dry the raisins with a napkin and roll in the starch, so that later it is distributed evenly in the dough.
- Peel pumpkin pulp and seeds, cut into small cubes.
- Fold the pumpkin pieces into the pot, add a little water. Stew the pumpkin to softness, chop it to a state of tender mashed potatoes using a blender.
- In the bowl, break the egg, add sugar, salt, vanillin and kefir to it. Beat the products with a blender or mixer until the sugar is dissolved in the kefir-egg mixture.
- Sift flour, mix it with baking powder. Combine the dry mix with a liquid mass. Stir until a homogeneous composition.
- Add pumpkin puree, whisk.
- Put the raisins in the dough, stir.
- Heat the butter in a pan, fry pancakes in it, putting the dough in the pan with a spoon.
If you want the pancakes to be more sweet, increase the amount of raisins, but not sugar, otherwise the dough will burn strongly.
Fritters with apple and pumpkin on kefir
Composition:
- pumpkin pulp - 0, 3 kg;
- pulp of apples - 0, 3 kg;
- wheat flour - 0, 2 kg;
- kefir - 100 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- baking powder for dough - 10 g;
- ground cinnamon - 5 g;
- sugar - 40 g;
- refined vegetable oil - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Peel pumpkins and apples, remove seeds. Grate the pumpkin and apple on a medium grater.
- Pour lemon juice over apples, mix. It is necessary that the apples are not darkened.
- Beat the egg with sugar and kefir until smooth.
- Add cinnamon and pumpkin-apple sauce to the mixture, mix.
- Mix sifted flour with baking powder, combine with the main composition and stir the dough until smooth.
- Fry the pancakes in boiling oil, browning them on both sides. Put on a napkin so that it absorbs excess fat.
Pumpkin-apple pancakes from dough on kefir turn out tasty and fragrant, hardly anyone can remain indifferent to them.
Pancakes with pumpkin kefir dough are tender and fluffy. They look appetizing due to the orange color of the main ingredient, have unique organoleptic qualities. They can be prepared according to several recipes, each of which has its own advantages.
