How to make pancakes

The content of the article

• Delicious Pancake Recipes
• In milk
• On kefir
• How to make thin pancakes
• Video how to make pancake dough

Pancakes are an amazing dish that is perfect for a festive table or for a kitchen gathering over a cup of tea, the main thing is to choose the right stuffing. A good housewife must certainly know how to make pancakes, and even better if she has in her arsenal a couple of recipes for different types of delicious pancakes. Moreover, this dish does not require special culinary skills, you just need to choose the right ingredients and follow a few simple rules.

Delicious Pancake Recipes

You can bake pancakes according to many recipes, because this dish is so widespread and loved that it has undergone many variations in the kitchens of Russian hostesses. Baking delicious pancakes is not difficult, but to make them tasty, you need to know some tricks. We have selected for you the recipes of the most delicious pancakes and described in detail the technology for preparing this delicacy, revealing all the subtleties and secrets of this process.

In milk

Pancakes with milk – an excellent breakfast on any day of the week. To prepare a delicious treat you need to knead the dough correctly, for this you will need the following ingredients:

• Flour (wheat is best, but you can also take buckwheat or rye) – 1-1.5 cups.
• Milk (preferably fresher) – 0.5 liters.
• Eggs – either 3 medium sized or 2 large.
• Add salt and sugar to taste..
• Vegetable oil, so that pancakes do not stick to the pan – 1 tbsp. the spoon.

The procedure for the step-by-step preparation of pancakes in milk:

1. Mix salt, sugar and eggs thoroughly first.
2. Next, add the prepared flour to this mixture..
3. Slowly pour the milk into the dough, mix thoroughly, breaking the lumps. You can even use a mixer.
4. The next step is to add oil. Note that sunflower oil can be replaced with butter, this will make pancakes light and tender..
5. Prepare the pan for frying pancakes – warm it thoroughly. If it is not Teflon, then it is better to lubricate it with oil.
6. Type a small amount of dough into the ladle, then pour it in a thin layer on a preheated pan. When the pancake is browned, you can turn it over.
7. Once the pancakes have cooled – serve. As a filling, you can use condensed milk, jam or just sour cream.

On kefir

Kefir pancakes are very tender, light and airy. Therefore, many housewives give them preference. If you want to know how to make delicious pancakes with kefir, use the following recipe.

Ingredients:

• Kefir – three glasses.
• Flour – two glasses.
• Eggs – 2 pcs..
• Sugar – one tablespoon.
• Pancake salt – half a teaspoon.

First of all, rub the yolks well with sugar. The next step is to pour in a piece of kefir (two glasses) and mix, gradually pouring flour. Next, we return to the proteins left for a while, in which you need to add flour and beat until fluffy with a whisk. Pour the remaining glass of kefir into the dough, add the proteins, then proceed to baking pancakes in the usual way – fry on medium heat.

Often, sweet pancakes are made on kefir – this is a great treat that will appeal to both an adult and a child. They can be served with various syrups, condensed milk, cream, sweet cottage cheese and even with ice cream. For sweet pancakes you will need:

• two eggs,
• 75 grams of first grade flour,
• 75 grams wholemeal flour,
• 50 g butter and a tablespoon of olive,
• 0.3 l of milk,
• 40 grams of powdered sugar,
• 180 ml kefir,
• a tablespoon of brown sugar, a pinch of salt.

How to make sweet pancakes with your own hands:

• Mix and beat eggs, milk, kefir, salt, sugar.
• Mix two kinds of flour, add the previously prepared milk-egg mixture, knead the dough.
• Melt the butter over a small fire, pour it into the dough and after mixing, leave for 30-60 minutes.
• Preheat a pan with olive oil, bake pancakes.
• Finish pancakes with icing sugar.

How to make thin pancakes

The ability to bake thin delicious pancakes is the highest class in the art of making pancakes. They are good both as an independent dish and with fillings. And they are just perfect for pancake cakes. So, for those who want to find the answer to the question “how to cook thin pancakes?” recommend 2 great recipes.

The first recipe is thin, early ripe fast pancakes. For it, you will need simple and affordable ingredients: flour – 1 kg, eggs – 5 pieces, water – 5 glasses, two tablespoons of sugar and for taste one teaspoon of salt, soda – half a teaspoon.

The cooking procedure step by step:

1. First step – pour 4 cups of slightly warmed water into a saucepan.
2. The second – mix the eggs with salt and sugar, pour into a container of water.
3. Third – add flour gradually, mixing thoroughly until the dough acquires the consistency of fat sour cream. So that it is not too thick, you can add some more water as needed.
4. Fourth – heat the pan well, add sunflower oil, if the pan is without a non-stick coating.
5. Fifth – pick up the finished dough with a medium-sized ladle and pour it evenly into the pan. You can lift the pan a little and make circular movements with it so that the pancakes come out smoother.

The second recipe is a royal dish. Having prepared such pancakes, you will be able to surprise not only households, but also guests at a dinner party or dinner. For these pancakes you will need: butter – 200 grams, egg yolks – 8 pcs., Sugar – one glass, one hundred grams of flour, cream – 2 glasses.

Cooking Technology:

• Melt the butter over a small fire, leave to cool, and in the meantime, add sugar to the egg yolks, whisk everything well.
• The next step – pour the yolks into the oil, stir the mixture until smooth.
• Pour a half cup of cream into the pan, add the flour, put everything in a boil until the mixture thickens.
• Next, remove the finished mixture from the stove and stir until it cools..
• Whip a glass of cream into the foam, add the previously prepared yolks and butter to them.
• At this stage, you can proceed to baking pancakes, just keep in mind that they can only be baked on one side, because they are too thin, airy.
• The pan should be heated to medium temperature, and ready-made pancakes should be transferred to the plate directly from it, without the help of forks, otherwise they will burst.

Video how to make pancake dough

Properly prepared dough is the basis of beautiful and delicious pancakes. It is important to correctly select the main components, calculate the necessary proportions of the ingredients and mix everything in the correct order. A visual demonstration of the pancake cooking process is presented in the video, after watching which you will know exactly how to cook pancakes yourself.