Draniki for many housewives is an option just in case when you need to quickly cook something, but there is no choice of products. However, the dish deserves more respect and interest.
The name comes from the old Russian word "Tear up" - before there were no graters habitual to us, therefore products were crushed (torn) with the help of a pointed board. A long history has caused a lot of variations, and now we offer you to get acquainted with the best simple and delicious recipes for pancakes with very unexpected ingredients.
10. Classic potato pancakes
Classic potato pancakes from potato with a crispy crust and delicate texture inside is the top Belarusian cuisine dish. To create it, you need a minimum of simple ingredients: 5-6 potatoes, onion, egg, 2 tbsp. flour, salt and black pepper.
Cooking process:
- raw tubers to peel and grate (you can use a blender with a special nozzle and even a meat grinder);
- add chopped onions to the potato mass - you need to do this as quickly as possible so that the potatoes do not darken;
- it remains to beat the egg, pour flour, season and mix everything thoroughly.
Useful advice: the main secret of successful pancakes is potatoes. It should be with a high starch content - this affects both taste and shape retention. Young potatoes are categorically not suitable for such a dish.
A frying pan with vegetable oil should be well heated, otherwise the dough will absorb a lot of fat. Spread the potato mass with a spoon, leveling to a round flat shape. When a brown crust appears on both sides of the pancake, he is ready.
If the laying of draniki turned out to be thick, it is better to leave them under the lid for 2-3 minutes. Classic potato pancakes are served with sour cream and herbs, and as a complement in Belarus they often serve a mug of cold honey kvass.
9. Lenten potato pancakes with avocado paste
Lenten pancakes with avocado paste - This is a real application for a restaurant-level dish. A great recipe for those who do not eat animal products. A mass for pancakes is prepared according to the classic recipe with one exception: they do not add an egg to it. Optionally, you can enrich the taste of garlic and chopped herbs.
An important role in the dish is pasta sauce, which will need to cover already fried pancakes. Ingredients: avocado - 1 pc., 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt, pepper.
The pulp of ripe avocado is kneaded with salt with a fork, oil, lemon juice are added to it and seasoned. If desired, chopped greens (cilantro, green onions and even peppermint), as well as chili pepper, can be added to such a paste.
When serving, the dish is formed as follows: on a plate put a potato pancake, on top - an avocado paste and a slice of tomato, decorate with a sprig of greenery.
8. Draniki With squash
To give the pancakes an unusual taste and surprise everyone at the table, it is worth going into experiments. An unusual option is to cook the mass. with squash, for 4 potatoes 1 pc will be enough. The remaining ingredients of the classic recipe remain unchanged.
Vegetables are washed, peeled and grated, add the egg and flour, seasoned with spices. If there are seeds in the squash, it is best to remove them before rubbing.
7. Smoked brisket pancakes
Fragrant, crunchy pancakes with sour cream in themselves cause an appetite, but what if we add smoked notes to this win-win dish? For a standard recipe, you will need only 1 additional ingredient - 100 g smoked brisket. It needs to be cut into small pieces and sent to the finished potato mass.
Be careful with salt - smoked meat is already salty in itself, therefore it is better to season potato pancakes after adding it. Fry potato pancakes with meat in a pan, also laying out with a spoon and giving a crust on both sides.
note - this variation turns out to be rather greasy and satisfying, so it’s better not to cook a lot.
6. Draniki with lard
Pork potato pancakes - an unusual dish, you can call it "student". As a sausage supplement, you can take both products with bacon and simple sausages - all to your taste.
For 4 potatoes in a standard recipe, 1 average piquant, cut into small cubes, will be enough. You can add a little grated cheese - it will turn out even tastier. Draniki is formed in layers: first, put one layer on the pan, on top - sausage filling and cover with another spoon of potato mass.
5. Draniki with slightly salted fish
Lightly salted fish on a delicious potato pancake - that's what you definitely want to try. The peculiarity of the recipe is that potato pancakes themselves are prepared according to the standard recipe, and serving just gives them a twist.
Need such Ingredients: 0.5 cups of sour cream and mayonnaise, 1 clove of garlic and a bunch of chopped herbs for the sauce and a slice of light-salted fish fillet (for example, salmon or pink salmon).
We form a dish:
- We put already cooled pancakes on a plate.
- Top for each - a spoonful of sauce.
- The final touch is a strip of fish spun with a roll and a sprig of greenery for beauty.
4. Rice pancakes with cream cheese
Draniki can be both an appetizer and a hearty dish, quite suitable for the main on the table. According to the classic recipe, relatively thin pancakes are obtained, but if you cook them rice with cream cheese, then it will be real magnificent cutlets.
Ingredients: potatoes - 4-5 pcs., flour - 3 tbsp., 2 eggs, 1 onion, 1 tbsp. boiled rice, 2 cream cheese, herbs and spices to taste. Rice is introduced into the potato dough itself at the stage of kneading.
Cheese must first be cut into flat slices and lay them between layers already in a pan: first a spoonful of dough, on top - a piece of cheese, cover with another spoonful of potatoes and rice. Fry on both sides and a surprisingly tasty dish is ready.
3. Draniki with vegetable filling
Starting to think about variations of potato pancakes, the idea to cook them almost immediately comes to your mind with vegetable filling. The formation of such a dish occurs immediately in a pan, as in the previous recipe. But as a filling of a delicious fritters can be used:
- bell pepper;
- eggplant;
- mushrooms;
- carrots etc.
Any of these vegetables must first be chopped and fried in a pan with onions. It remains only to cook the classic potato dough and you can begin to create a masterpiece.
2. Potato pancakes with pumpkin
Potato pancakes with pumpkin have a unique aroma, mouth-watering color and extremely interesting taste. But the preparation is not at all complicated, it is only a modification of the classic recipe.
Instead of 4-5 potatoes, it will be enough to take only 3 pieces and add 150 g of grated pumpkin. Otherwise, no changes, including regarding frying. The best sauce for such a dish is always sour cream.
1. Potato pancakes from zucchini, eggplant and carrots
Potato pancakes without potatoes are especially interesting, because the taste will be completely unexpected. The most popular vegetable variation is from zucchini, eggplant and carrots, they will need 1 each.
Rest standard ingredients: onion, 2-3 tbsp. flour, salt, pepper, 1 egg. Grind the vegetables on a grater, add flour, egg and season the mass. It is fried, like ordinary potato pancakes, on both sides in vegetable oil. The finished dish will perfectly complement the green onions and sour cream.