When you want to treat yourself and your home to tasty, nutritious and economical dishes, you should try potato pancakes. Making them is quite simple, and almost everyone likes this dish. Below are various recipes for making potato pancakes.

Potato pancakes from raw potatoes

The easiest way to cook pancakes is from raw potatoes so as not to waste time boiling tubers.

For cooking you will need:

  • 5 to 6 potatoes;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 0.35 liters of milk;
  • 0.3 kg of flour;
  • 7 to 8 g of powder baking powder;
  • salt.

 

Work sequence:

  1. Combine a small amount of milk with a baking powder and a tablespoon of flour, mix and wait until the froth appears.
  2. Beat eggs with salt, dilute with milk, pour dough into the mixture.
  3. Finely chop the raw potatoes and place in a blender bowl, adding a little milk. You can chop whole tubers on a grater.
  4. Add potatoes to the milk-egg mixture, mix and add flour. Then keep the base warm for 40 - 50 minutes.
  5. Heat a greased frying pan, pour a small amount of dough, smooth and fry until golden brown. Then turn over and continue cooking.

Attention! For the preparation of pancakes, do not use young potatoes. These tubers contain a small amount of starch, and the pancakes will sprawl and burn.

Mashed Potato Recipe

To make the pancake dough uniform, it is better to make it from mashed potatoes.

For the dish you will need:

  • 3 to 4 potato tubers;
  • egg;
  • 0.25 liters of milk;
  • 0.2 kg of flour;
  • 15 g of sugar;
  • salt.

 

Sequencing:

  1. Peel potatoes, cut into small pieces and boil.
  2. Mash the cooked tubers with a potato masher, gradually adding milk.
  3. Beat the egg with salt and sugar, and then gradually combine with the potato-milk mixture, adding a little flour.
  4. When there are no lumps left in the mass, heat a greased pan and fry the pancakes on both sides.
  5. Ready-made potato pancakes can be eaten hot or cold, as an independent dish or as a side dish.

Kefir pancakes

If there is no fresh milk in the refrigerator, you can prepare pancakes from potatoes and kefir.

For such a dish you will need:

  • 7 to 8 potato tubers;
  • 0.25 L of kefir;
  • egg;
  • 0.12 - 0.15 kg of flour;
  • 7 to 8 g of soda;
  • salt;
  • favorite seasonings.

 

Operating procedure:

  1. Grind peeled potato tubers with a fine grater. Drain the juice that stands out.
  2. Mix the resulting chips with an egg, salt, soda and spices, pour flour.
  3. Dilute the dough with kefir so that by consistency it resembles thick sour cream, and fry the pancakes.
  4. Seasonings such as black and red pepper, coriander, paprika, dried herbs, curry and turmeric can be added to this dish.

Thin potato pancakes

To make thin potato pancakes, you need mashed powder. This semi-finished product can be found not only in the supermarket, but also in a small grocery store.

For cooking, you need such components:

  • 0.1 - 0.12 kg of dry puree;
  • egg;
  • 0.45 - 0.5 l of fresh or acidified milk;
  • 70 - 90 g of flour;
  • salt.

 

Operating procedure:

  1. Pour potato powder with a dairy product, stir until clots disappear and leave for a quarter hour to swell.
  2. Drive an egg into the mass, add vegetable fat and salt, mix until smooth.
  3. Pour flour, break up all the lumps and dilute the resulting mixture with remaining fresh milk or yogurt.
  4. Fry pancakes in a hot pan.

On a note. Some housewives have difficulty preparing this dish, as they cannot understand when to turn the pancake. This is done after its edges are slightly dried, and holes are formed in the middle.

Option for fasting

Religious Fast imposes a ban on the use of animal products, including milk and eggs. For those who fast, you can make potato pancakes without these ingredients.

In the process of cooking you will need these products:

  • 5 potato tubers;
  • glass of water;
  • 50 g of vegetable fat;
  • salt.

 

Sequencing:

  1. Boil potatoes, mashed in mashed potatoes and let cool slightly.
  2. Add to the mass of sunflower oil, salt, flour and mix until smooth.
  3. Dilute the composition with water so that a semi-liquid dough is obtained.
  4. Fry the pancakes until golden brown.

Attention! Fry potato pancakes, especially lean pancakes, you need only in a hot pan, otherwise they will stick to the bottom of the dishes.

How to make pancakes on a potato broth

To prepare delicious pancakes, you can use not only chopped tubers, but also potato broth.

You will need these ingredients:

  • 0.25 l of potato broth;
  • 0.25 liters of milk or yogurt;
  • egg;
  • 0.25 kg of flour;
  • some vegetable fat;
  • sugar and salt.

 

Sequencing:

  1. Combine fresh broth with milk and let cool. If yogurt is used, you can add it only after the broth has cooled, otherwise the dairy product will curl with flakes.
  2. Beat the egg with sugar and salt, then start pouring flour, gradually adding to the mixture prepared in the previous step.
  3. Break all the lumps and clots, dilute the composition with the remaining liquid and fry the thin pancakes.

On a note. In addition to milk, for the preparation of such a dish, you can take kefir of any fat content or fermented baked milk.

Coarse gravy potato pancakes

In appearance and taste, such potato pancakes resemble the famous potato pancakes. The following products will be required for cooking:

  • 8 to 10 potato tubers;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 0.1 - 0.12 kg of flour;
  • some garlic cloves;
  • salt;
  • suitable spices.

Order of preparation:

  1. Grind the peeled potato tubers on a coarse grater, wait a while until the juice stands out, then squeeze.
  2. Crush garlic cloves with a press and add to potatoes.
  3. Introduce eggs, salt, seasonings and flour. To stir thoroughly.
  4. Put the mass in a pan, smooth with a spatula and fry on both sides.

Attention! Turn over such pancakes only after the fried side becomes bright golden and crispy.

What do potato pancakes eat with?

Potato pancakes prepared by any of the above methods can be served as a side dish for poultry, fish or meat.

If pancakes are used as an independent dish, they are supplemented with such products:

  • sour cream;
  • mayonnaise;
  • mustard;
  • adjika;
  • ketchup;
  • cheese and garlic sauce.

And to make the dish look attractive and appetizing, you can sprinkle potato pancakes with chopped fresh herbs or finely chopped green onions.

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