Draniki with cheese - 6 recipes

It is unlikely that you have met at least one person in your life who has never tried potato pancakes in his life. This original Russian dish is popular to this day, and modern housewives have come up with many variations of the classic recipe with the addition of various ingredients. For example, would you like to try pancakes with cheese? Or with garlic sauce?

Almost any product to your taste can be added to your favorite pancakes, rarely such experiments turn out to be a failure.

Potato pancakes with cheese

Thanks to the addition of cheese, potato pancakes acquire a more delicate, creamy taste and a soft, viscous consistency.

To prepare them you will need:

• potatoes - 600 gr.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onions - 1-2 pcs. (depending on size);
• flour - 3-4 tbsp. l .;
• vegetable oil - 40-50 gr.;
• hard cheese - 100 gr. (optionally more);
• salt, black pepper and other seasonings to taste.

A little about choosing products:

It is advisable to purchase potatoes with less starch. Tubers of such a vegetable, as a rule, have a more yellow color. Or the young potato is perfect, in the process of frying it will get a softer texture, and you will get rid of the taste of starch in the dish.

Cheese is better to take the one that smells best and tastes better. It makes no sense to spend money on “Parmesan” when you like ordinary cream cheese more. You can try happiness with cream cheese, but this is for very specific gourmets, not everyone likes it.

Onions in this dish are needed to neutralize the darkening of potatoes. Many housewives neglect its addition, and as a result, a shapeless, gray mass is obtained in the pan, which strives to decompose.

And, finally, seasonings: this is of course a matter of taste, but you can’t come up with a better combination than red and black peppers for potato pancakes.Any cheese dish as a whole dispenses with seasoning - the creamy smell itself is very saturated.

Cooking

Rinse the potatoes, peel, grate on a coarse or fine grater. If desired, juice can be drained from it, or liquid can be left for “juiciness”. It is better to grate the peeled prepared onion on a fine grater to get a puree from which you can drain the excess juice. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

Important! Grated potatoes must be combined with all the ingredients immediately so that it does not have time to darken.

In a plastic bowl, mix onions, potatoes, eggs, add cheese, salt, pepper and seasonings. The flour is laid last, after which the mass is mixed. By consistency, it should resemble oily sour cream.

For frying, you will need either a cast-iron skillet or with a non-stick coating. Before frying, heat the oil in a pan, then put the fritters with a spoon and fry on both sides.

The amount of oil may vary from personal preference: for “fry” fritters, add more oil, while the thickness of the fritters should be left within half a centimeter - this is the “golden mean”.

If you add less oil, and the pancakes should be made thinner, otherwise they just will not bake, but eating half-baked potatoes is not a pleasant pleasure.

Ham and cheese pancakes

In classic cheese pancakes, you can add a little ham. The recipe for this does not change much, just ham is added to the remaining components, cut into small cubes.

It turns out very tasty "meat" pancakes with ham and cheese, in which dill and a little garlic are also added at will.

It is interesting: meat pancakes

This dish can be decorated in the form of a large potato pancake stuffed with cheese and ham. To do this, separately you need to mix the onions, potatoes, egg and flour, while receiving a steeper dough. Separately combine the grated cheese and diced vespin, if desired, a little dill or parsley, after which the resulting filling is wrapped in potato dough and fry on both sides over low heat until golden brown. The resulting potato pancake goes well with sour cream sauce, ketchup or mayonnaise.

Recipe for pancakes with sausage and cheese

Add a little "home" taste to potato pancakes will help ordinary boiled sausage. Again, such pancakes are prepared in the same way as potato pancakes with cheese, just in the process of kneading the dough sausage is added.

You can use smoked or boiled sausage, or the same meat. Cut the meat products or grate, then mix with the rest, fry the resulting pancakes in the usual way.

Rice pancakes with cheese

Lovers of cream cheese can please themselves with the preparation of rice pancakes. In fact, adding rice gives few advantages: it tastes imperceptible, but is visible in section and enriches the dish with calcium.

For cooking you will need:

• potatoes - 600 gr.;
• onions - 1 - 2 pcs.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• flour - 2-3 tbsp. l .;
• boiled rice - half a cup (about 100-150 gr.);
• processed cheese - 1-2 pcs.;
• green onions - 1 bunch;
• salt, pepper - to taste;
• garlic - 1-2 cloves.

All prepared ingredients must be mixed, then put on a pan with a spoon and fry. In this recipe, rice is almost not felt, it is the onions and cream cheese that give the main taste. This dish is perfect for summer days, when the area is full of fresh herbs and garlic.

Of course, the matter is not limited to these ingredients: each of the additives can be replaced with something else, more suitable.

Zucchini pancakes with cheese

Using zucchini instead of potatoes will help to achieve a more delicate taste. Fried zucchini in itself acquires a certain sweetness, which, coupled with a creamy flavor, gives a wonderful taste. Often in zucchini pancakes add garlic and herbs.

By the way, a little advice about greens: dill goes well with potatoes, while parsley is best added to zucchini pancakes with cheese - it will add a little piquancy.

A dish is prepared from the following ingredients:

• zucchini - 1 pc. medium size;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• flour - 3-4 tablespoons;
• cheese - 100g .;
• garlic - 1-2 cloves;
• parsley to taste;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

These pancakes are prepared in the same way as others: rinse the zucchini, grate, add the same cheese, egg, flour, salt, pepper and mix until smooth.

Some housewives prefer to add garlic and parsley inside the fritters themselves, when kneading the dough, which gives an islandy and pungent flavor. However, instead, pancakes can be dipped in a sauce of sour cream and crushed garlic, with the addition of chopped parsley.

By the way, this sauce is suitable for potato pancakes and other baked vegetable dishes.

Recipe with Vegetables and Chicken Fillet with Cheese

Cheese and chicken are two almost inseparable products that blend perfectly together. Many culinary specialists create their masterpieces based solely on these two ingredients. For example, taking the main ingredients of potato pancakes, you can bake chicken with cheese in the oven. There can be many variations and combinations of chicken with vegetables: someone prefers seasonal vegetables, and someone over the eternal classics.

For chicken under cheese you will need:

• potatoes - 600 gr;
• chicken fillet - 500 gr.;
• tomatoes - 1-2 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• Bulgarian pepper - ½ pc.;
• hard cheese - 300 gr.;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Rinse the potatoes, peel, grate, or cut into small circles. Onion, pepper, tomatoes cut into rings, straws and slices. Salt the fillet, pepper, cut into small steaks and lightly beat, or cut the fillet into pieces. Put all the ingredients on a baking sheet in layers: potato -> chicken -> onion -> tomatoes -> bell pepper, or alternatively change products in places if desired. Sprinkle with grated hard cheese from above and send to bake in the oven for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Previously, you can marinate the fillet in a sauce of grated onion and garlic, then fry and put on vegetables. Also, canned corn and greens are often added to the recipe.

In addition, you can bake the breast under cheese in sour cream garlic sauce (his recipe is described above) or mayonnaise to give it a juiciness. However, the addition of other products depends solely on the hostess's imagination and household preferences.