Cooking a traditional Slavic dish - fritters - is difficult to imagine without the use of kefir. On it they turn out magnificent and rise well in the process of frying. There are dozens of different recipes, moreover, pancakes in different regions cook in their own way. Despite this, there are still the most popular recipes, without which modern cooking is inconceivable. How to cook lush pancakes on kefir - further recipes and culinary secrets.

Basic recipe

A classic recipe is a base or base that can be used to make various variations of pancakes. Traditionally, kefir is used in this dish or is replaced with its home analogue - sour milk, which does not always give the same result. In any case, this recipe for kefir fritters is basic and serves as an orientation in proportions and main ingredients. How to cook pancakes according to the basic recipe - description below.

Ingredients:

  • 350 ml of kefir;
  • 180 grams of flour;
  • 1 teaspoon of soda;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • 20 grams of sugar;
  • 1 egg

Products must be preheated to room temperature, so they must be removed from the refrigerator in advance. After preparing all the ingredients, you need to take a deep bowl, mixer or whisk and start preparing the dough. A step-by-step recipe is described below.

  1. Drive an egg into a bowl, add kefir.
  2. Add salt. Salt is needed in sweet pancakes only to enhance the taste, so do not exceed the recommended amount.
  3. Beat with a whisk, spoon or mixer, adding sugar and flour.
  4. In the final step add soda.
  5. After this, continue to beat until the mixture is thick and viscous.
  6. Form the dough with a spoon into balls and pour them on hot oil in a heated pan.
  7. Fry, looking around the edges so that the pancakes do not burn. It is advisable to fry under the lid until cooked.
  8. Serve warm, garnished with berries, condensed milk, honey or powdered sugar - to taste.

The basic recipe is a classic, but you can diversify it if you wish, experimenting with additives.

Important! The most important thing in the fritters test is consistency. They will never be magnificent unless the dough is thick enough. If the first pancakes in the pan spread, you can correct the situation by adding a small amount of flour.

With apples

Lush kefir pancakes with apples are a quick way to prepare a delicious dessert from the available products. Apples add juiciness and make pancakes more useful due to the content of vitamins, iron and pectin. A win-win option for making delicious apple fritters is described below.

Ingredients:

  • 2 sweet apples;
  • 1.5 cups kefir;
  • egg;
  • 1 cup flour;
  • soda;
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar;
  • ground cinnamon or vanilla powder to taste.

Fruits of sweet varieties are best suited to implement this recipe, because you can’t add a lot of sugar to the dough - this will ruin the dish. How to cook?

  1. Dice peeled apples into cubes or short strips.
  2. Grind sugar with egg until completely dissolved;
  3. Pour kefir, beat well.
  4. Add flour, constantly whipping or stirring.
  5. Add soda and flavor.
  6. At the very end, put the prepared apples in the dough, mix and leave for 5-10 minutes.
  7. Fry over high heat.
  8. It is necessary to remove pancakes on paper napkins so that they absorb the remains of fat.

The yield with such a number of ingredients is approximately 18 pieces of average size fritters.

Attention! Apple pancakes with honey, maple syrup or condensed milk are best combined to taste, but you can confine yourself to dusting with powdered sugar.

With yeast

Yeast pancakes - a classic of the genre in Slavic cuisine. Different ethnic groups have developed their own recipes and secrets over the centuries. It is impossible to single out among them one, ideal. But still there are classic, win-win options. A step-by-step recipe for classic yeast pancakes is described below.

Ingredients:

  • fatty kefir - 300 ml;
  • baker's yeast (5 grams);
  • 2 cups of flour;
  • 50 ml of water;
  • ½ tablespoon sugar;
  • chicken egg;
  • a spoonful of butter (butter or vegetable).

If dry yeast is used, then this is half the packet. If "live", then about 1/8 of a small bar for such a number of ingredients. Excessive yeast will ruin the dough!

  1. To make the yeast come to life, they must first be dissolved in warm water with sugar. Water is not hotter than 40 degrees!
  2. In a separate bowl, mix the eggs with butter and kefir.
  3. Pour in dissolved yeast and add flour.
  4. Stir so that the whole dough is free of lumps and acquires a uniform consistency.
  5. Maintain under a clean towel in warmth for about 30-40 minutes.
  6. In a pan, fry each pancake on two sides.

You can determine the readiness of the test for frying as follows: if it has increased in volume by almost 2 times, then you can start cooking.

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On hot kefir

They knew how to cook pancakes on hot kefir several centuries ago. Later, this recipe was gradually forgotten. But, having once tried such pancakes, most likely, you will not want to return to the classics. How and from what to cook - below is a description.

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup kefir:
  • 2 eggs;
  • 1.5 cups flour;
  • 20 grams of sugar;
  • ½ teaspoon of soda.

Since kefir will need to be heated, it must be fresh. Otherwise, lush dough may not work.

  1. In a refractory or metal bowl, heat kefir to a temperature of about 40 degrees.
  2. Beat eggs separately and pour them into kefir, stirring constantly or whipping.
  3. Warm the mixture in a water bath.
  4. Add all remaining ingredients and mix afterwards.
  5. Fry, like the most common pancakes, on both sides in a hot skillet with butter.

Important! You can not overheat the mixture with eggs, because they quickly curl up, and then the dough will fail.

How to cook without eggs

Preparing delicious yogurt pancakes for breakfast without adding chicken eggs is no more difficult than for other recipes. The absence of this component can be easily compensated for by other products. Moreover, eggs do not play a decisive role in this case. Detailed instructions and composition are provided below.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups kefir;
  • 2 cups of wheat flour (premium);
  • 40 ml of vegetable oil;
  • soda - ½ tablespoon;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 packet;
  • ½ tablespoon sugar.

It is white flour that ideally helps in achieving the effect of splendor. For other types of flour, this recipe will not be relevant.

  1. In a bowl, mix the butter with kefir.
  2. Do not stop whisking until a uniform consistency is obtained.
  3. Add soda, sugar and vanilla to the resulting mass.
  4. Pour flour with a thin "trickle", while stirring vigorously. Flour must be pre-sifted.
  5. Fry fritters until fully cooked, remove onto oil napkins.

Put the finished product on portioned plates and use any sweet additives. With pancakes, you can serve berries and fruits, curd mass, jam.

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Yeastless pancakes

In a basic recipe, fritters without yeast are cooked on soda, but this option is not always acceptable. To diversify the menu will help the availability of alternative recipes in which other types of baking powder are involved. One of the successful ways to make pancakes without yeast is described below.

 

Ingredients:

  • ½ liter kefir;
  • 5 g of confectionery baking powder;
  • 2 cups flour;
  • a pinch of salt;
  • 1 packet of vanilla sugar;
  • 10 grams of regular sugar;
  • chicken egg;
  • 1 tablespoon of sour cream.

Without yeast, the dough is airy and soft due to a baking powder containing active substances.

  1. Kefir first need to warm a little. It should not be cold, otherwise the dough will turn out too dense.
  2. Dissolve sugar, vanilla, baking powder in kefir.
  3. Add chicken egg and fat sour cream, and then beat well, adding flour.
  4. Knead the dough of medium density, set aside for 10 minutes.
  5. Heat a skillet over medium heat, pour in vegetable oil.
  6. Fry fritters.

Remove the pancakes when a golden crust appears, remove excess oil with a paper towel and serve.

Important! You can’t pour too much dough in the hope of getting more magnificent pancakes. In a pan they will rise and so. But if the dough layer is thick, there is a risk that the pancakes will turn out raw inside.

Tasty recipe with cottage cheese

To quickly cook pancakes, it is not necessary to take a classic recipe. Much more nutritious and tastier they are obtained with cottage cheese. The recipe, which is described below, will not leave indifferent even the most demanding gourmets.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup fat cottage cheese;
  • the same amount of kefir;
  • 1.5 cups flour;
  • 20 grams of sugar;
  • 50 grams of raisins;
  • 50 grams of dried apricots;
  • ½ tablespoon of soda;
  • 2 eggs.

Cottage cheese, or cottage cheese pancakes, are not the same thing as fritters. But to taste they are very similar. In some ways, pancakes even surpass traditional cheesecakes due to loose and soft dough.

  1. Grind eggs with cottage cheese and sugar.
  2. Pour in kefir, add flour and mix.
  3. Rinse and chop dried apricots, add to the total mass.
  4. Steamed raisins, send there too.
  5. Concluding the process, add soda, you can not extinguish it with vinegar.
  6. Set aside the prepared mixture for 15 minutes.
  7. Fry in oil or in a dry frying pan.

Ready-made pancakes with cottage cheese to serve, pouring honey or jam. You can limit yourself to sprinkling powdered sugar.

Cooking without soda

Soda loosens the dough, giving it softness and making it magnificent. But kefir in itself has this ability, as it contains lactic acid bacteria that carry out the fermentation process. Therefore, it is not necessary to use soda for kefir fritters, as they will turn out to be less harmful to health. The recipe for fritters without soda is described below.

 

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 cups kefir;
  • 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil (olive or sunflower);
  • 1.5 cup flour;
  • 1 egg
  • a pinch of salt;
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar.

Vegetable oil will make the dough more magnificent, you can replace it with butter, but pre-melt it.

  1. Kefir is heated to 40 degrees.
  2. Separately, beat the egg with butter, sugar and a pinch of salt.
  3. Pour the mixture into kefir and continue whipping, combining it with the gradual addition of flour.
  4. Knead the dough to insist. This will take no more than 20 minutes.
  5. Now you can start to heat the pan and proceed to the final stage - frying.

Serve fritters immediately to the table, sweetened with honey. The latter can be replaced with powdered sugar, fruit jams or jam.

A variety of fritters recipes allows you to choose what you like. The best option is to try to cook this dish for each recipe and choose the one that turned out to be the most successful!

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