Wash a pound of potatoes, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Peel the onion, rinse, grate on a fine grater and mix with potatoes. Squeeze out excess moisture from this mass with your hands. Add salt, pepper, flour and knead the dough for potato pancakes. Heat the pan, pour vegetable oil on it and arrange the pancakes in the pan so that they do not touch. Fry potato pancakes for 5 minutes on both sides until golden brown.
How to fry potato pancakes
Ingredients
Potato – half a kilo
Chicken egg – 1 piece
Onion – 1 head
Garlic – 2 cloves
Flour – 2 tablespoons
Salt and black pepper – to taste
Soda – at the tip of a teaspoon
Vegetable oil – 3 tablespoons
Sour cream – to taste
How to fry potato pancakes
Wash the potatoes, peel, rinse well again under cold water and grate on a coarse grater (or, you can skip the potatoes through a meat grinder). Peel the onion, wash and grate on a fine grater, add to the potatoes. Beat chicken eggs, add to potatoes and onions. Add salt, pepper, soda, flour and knead potato dough for potato pancakes.
Heat up a frying pan, pour in the oil, lay out the dough with flat cakes so that they do not touch, and fry for 5 minutes. Then turn the pancakes over and fry for another 5 minutes. Put the pancakes on a dish. Serve potato pancakes with sour cream.
Recipe for potato pancakes with minced meat (sorcerers)
Products
Potato – half a kilo
Minced meat or poultry – 200 grams
Chicken eggs – 2 pieces
Onion – half a head
Flour – 2 tablespoons
Suneli hops – half a teaspoon
Basil – half a teaspoon
Salt – half a teaspoon
Sour cream – to taste
How to fry potato pancakes with minced meat in a frying pan
Minced meat, if frozen, defrost. Peel and finely chop the onion, crush a little with your hands to give juice. Mix the minced meat, onion, 1 chicken egg, part of the salt and seasonings in a bowl with your hands.
Peel the potatoes and grate on a fine grater, let the potato juice drain. Add 2 chicken eggs and mix until smooth. Add flour, salt and mix well.
Heat up a frying pan, pour in the oil, put the potato mass in tortillas using a tablespoon. Flatten each cake and put minced meat on it, put another spoonful of potato mass on top and level it again. Fry pancakes with minced meat for 5 minutes over medium heat without a lid, then turn over to fry for another 3 minutes without a lid and 3 minutes – under the lid. Serve potato pancakes with minced meat with sour cream.
Fuss facts about pancakes
– In the recipe, minced meat can be replaced with hard or processed cheese. In this version, the egg is not added to the filling.
– Draniki is not the only name for grated potato pancakes. In Israel, for example, it is called latkes, and in Russia there are such names for potato pancakes as kakorki, teruny, terunets, terunki. In Ukraine, potato pancakes are called potato pancakes, potato pancakes and kremzliks. And in translation from Swedish, the word that sounds “dranik” is translated as “bristled monk”.
– Draniki are served to the table immediately after frying: crispy and warm. They are usually served with sour cream and butter. In some regions, it is customary to heat bacon and serve with pancakes with or without greaves. Machanka is also served, which is a mixture of cottage cheese, milk and cream. – Draniki can be fried in a waffle iron and a slow cooker.
– To fry pancakes in a waffle iron, grease the shape of the waffle iron with vegetable oil to prevent pancakes from burning, and put the mixture for pancakes on the grid of the waffle iron in the required volume (about 2 tablespoons of potato pancakes dough). In a waffle iron, pancakes are fried for 1 minute.
– Draniki are fried in a slow cooker for five minutes. To fry pancakes in a multicooker, pour 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil into the bottom of the bowl, put the mixture for pancakes so that pancakes do not touch each other, and turn on the “Frying” mode. Fry potato pancakes under a closed lid for 5 minutes, then turn potato pancakes over and fry for another 5 minutes.