Feb 03 2017

How to cook the most delicious potato pancakes?

Hello, my dear friends, regular readers and random visitors!

Oh, something so drannikov wanted! I want to cook the most delicious! This is me losing weight for the summer. And, anyway, Maslenitsa is coming soon. After that, I'll start. Today potatoes are on the agenda!

We have already prepared with you, and even.

But there are many more recipes. While looking, I learned so many new and interesting things.

It is believed that potato pancakes were invented in Belarus. And the name came from there. It is the most common dish there, it is even served in even the most expensive restaurants. And they cook mainly from potatoes and onions.

But here in Russia in different regions they call it differently: kakorki, teruns, teruns, terunki, deriki. And they cook everything in their own way.

But there are some common features and now I will talk about them.

For pancakes, yellow potatoes are best, they contain a lot of starch. And for some reason, they are the most delicious from it.
So that the potatoes do not darken, it is necessary to grind them mixed with onions, one potato, onion, again potatoes and onions.
The best spices for potato pancakes are curry, ground black pepper, coriander, marjoram, red pepper, white mustard, dried dill, garlic, sweet pepper and chili pepper
Do not put too thick pancakes on the pan, they may not be fried inside
The prepared Belarusian delicacy must be laid out on a towel, which will remove excess vegetable oil.
Belarusians have a secret - they use a special grater for hash browns. It looks like a small grater, which is found in almost every kitchen. But I prefer the big one. Completely different taste.

My favorite simple pancakes without flour are potatoes, eggs and salt. But the diet needs to be diversified, so I have collected several recipes. I've tried everything. All awesome, for those who understand. And my family loved the cheese ones. She treated her friend to mushrooms - she liked it. In general, the taste, the color. Choose for yourself what you like.

Traditional Belarusian draniki

- 3-4 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Salt and pepper to taste
frying oil
Sour cream - for serving, no way without it

Grate potatoes with onions. You can do this in a food processor, it's faster and there will be no tears from the onion. Put in a bowl. You can remove excess juice, just squeeze.

Add salt and pepper.

Heat oil in a frying pan and fry. Three minutes on each side, then you can still hold a little under the lid - this is for softness. I love crunchy ones, so I immediately put them on a napkin so that excess oil is gone.

Serve immediately with sour cream while still hot.

The most delicious pancakes with cheese

Potato -3-4 pcs.
Onion - 1 pc.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
- 100 g
Salt and pepper - to taste.
Vegetable oil for frying
Sour cream for serving

We rub raw potatoes with onions. Add egg, flour, salt, pepper and grated cheese. We mix everything until a homogeneous mass.

Fry on both sides for about 3 minutes until golden brown.

There is another option. We do not add cheese to the dough, but simply sprinkle it on top of almost ready-made cakes, cover with a lid and let the cheese melt.

Serve hot with sour cream. Mmmm the cheese is stretching, so appetizing!

From potatoes with mushrooms

Potato -3-4 pcs.
- 200 g
Onion - 1 pc.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
Cheese - 100 g
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying
Butter for frying mushrooms

Finely chop the mushrooms and fry in butter with onions.

Now we rub the potatoes, add the egg, salt, spices, flour to it, knead well. Now the cooled mushrooms. We mix. We fry.

Another option. You can not add mushrooms to the dough, but make bigger cakes and

wrap mushrooms in them as a filling.

From potatoes with pumpkin

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 200 g
Milk - a third of a glass
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

Grate potatoes and pumpkin.

Now you need to boil milk and pour potatoes over it, let it stand for 5 minutes, soak. Then the milk can be drained through a colander. Add the grated pumpkin to the potatoes, mix. Now the egg - you need to separate the yolk from the protein, add the yolk immediately, and beat the protein with a whisk and carefully add to the dough. Now flour, salt and spices.

Heat the frying pan well, put some butter there and fry our potato pancakes on both sides. At the end, cover with a lid and let it sweat a little, for softness.

And serve hot with sour cream. Incredibly tasty for those who love pumpkin.

With tomatoes and herbs

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 2-3 pcs.
Egg - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Greens to taste
Garlic 1-2 cloves
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

As always, we rub raw potatoes, add flour, salt, spices, garlic (through a garlic press). Finely chop the tomatoes and greens too and add them to the dough

Fry until golden crisp.

There is a vegan version without eggs. They won't fall apart. The taste doesn't change at all. Try it.

With zucchini

Potato - 3-4 pcs.
- 1 PC.
Egg - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 pc.
Flour - 2-3 tablespoons
Greens to taste
Garlic 1-2 cloves
Salt and spices to taste
Vegetable oil for frying

Potato, onion, zucchini. wash, clean, rub. There is a lot of juice in the zucchini, it is better to squeeze it out by hand or let it drain in a colander. Add flour, salt, spices, egg.

From potatoes you can cook a lot of delicious and satisfying dishes. And one of them is pancakes. And what is it, and how to cook such a dish?

What are draniki?

Draniki are basically potato pancakes. Such a dish is considered, but it is also found in the cuisines of other countries of the world.

So, in Ukraine, potato pancakes are called pancakes or potato pancakes, in - latkes, in Sweden - ragmunks (which translates as "bristled monk"), in the Czech Republic - bramboraks, in America - hashbrowns, and in Lithuania such a dish is called potato pancakes. By the way, the word draniki is translated from Old Russian as “rub, tear”, so we can assume that the name contains the whole essence of the dish.

A bit of history

It is not known exactly when and where potato pancakes were first used in the form in which they are known to us. After all, potatoes began to be cultivated a long time ago, and, probably, a wide variety of dishes were prepared from it. Thus, the first mention of potato pancakes dates back to 1830.

And some believe that they appeared under the influence of German cuisine. But if Belarus is still considered the birthplace of the dish, then here initially the potatoes were not grated (then there were simply no graters), but on the board.

In those days, they ate potato pancakes for breakfast. And there was also such a tradition: before the main meal, you had to eat a piece of black bread. Draniki are always eaten only hot with sour cream, lard or butter.

Ingredients

Today, there are many different recipes for potato pancakes, but in its original form, such a dish consisted of only a few components. We list the ingredients that are used most often and in most cases:

Potato. It is worth talking about it separately, because it is he who is the main and most important ingredient. The taste of the finished dish depends on his choice. It is worth choosing varieties with a high starch content, because if there is not enough of it, potato pancakes will not be juicy and soft or will burn during the frying process. it is better not to use it, there is little starch in it.
Eggs play the role of a connecting element, so many people add them too. Usually there is 1 egg for 4-5 potatoes.
Onion. Onion, firstly, makes potato pancakes more juicy and gives them a pleasant taste. Secondly, onion juice protects the potatoes from browning and allows the potato mass to be stored longer.
Flour or starch. If you can't find starchy potatoes, then add starch during the cooking process. It can be replaced with wheat or corn flour.
Instead of onions, some use kefir, which also prevents browning.
Salt and pepper are added to taste. As for other seasonings, they are not traditionally used. But you can add garlic or dill or parsley.
If you like to experiment in the kitchen, you can make stuffed pancakes or just mix potatoes with vegetables or minced meat.

How to cook?

How to cook delicious potato pancakes? You need to remember some rules. Here are the main preparation steps:

First peel and wash the potatoes.
Now you need to start grinding. How to grate potatoes? It all depends on your preferences and tastes, as well as on what potato pancakes you want to end up with. If you plan to cook tender and uniform potato pancakes, then use a fine tearing grater. If you want potato pancakes to be fried and crunchy, then grate the potatoes on a medium or even large grater. If you have little time, then you can use a blender or meat grinder to grind.
Then you need to squeeze out excess juice from the potatoes. In general, you can not do this, since the juice also gives the dish a special taste. By the way, the mass with juice is called tarkovannaya. There is also a clinked mass (in this case, the juice is squeezed out) and boiled. In the latter case, the potatoes are first boiled and then chopped in boiled form.
Now mix the potato mass with the egg, add the onion or other ingredients, as well as salt and pepper. Knead the dough. By consistency, it will resemble not too thick sour cream.
Now start cooking. It is best to fry pancakes, in this form they will be crispy. But you can also use the oven, slow cooker and even a double boiler. By the way, melted fat or butter is best suited for frying, but you can also use ordinary vegetable oil (preferably refined).

Recipes

We offer you several recipes for potato pancakes.

Recipe one

These are the simplest potato pancakes. Cooking Ingredients:

3 large potatoes;
1 small onion;
1 egg;
salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method:

Peel potatoes and grate. Squeeze out excess juice if necessary.
Also peel the onion and either chop it finely, or grate it, or chop it in a blender.
Mix potatoes and onions, add egg, salt and pepper. Mix everything well.
Heat oil or fat in a pan.
With a spoon, spread the mass on a preheated pan, leaving free space between the potato pancakes (at least 1 centimeter) so that they do not stick together.
Fry the pancakes until golden brown on each side.

Recipe two

If you cannot imagine your life without meat, then cook meat pancakes. Here's what you'll need:

100 grams of pork;
100 grams of beef;
700 grams of potatoes;
1 onion;
3 tablespoons of kefir;
1 egg;
3 bunches of green dill;
pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking method:

Rinse the meat, clean from the veins and pass through a meat grinder. You can immediately pass through a meat grinder and peeled onions.
Peel the potatoes and grate on a medium grater. Squeeze out excess juice and mix potato mass with kefir and egg.
Chop the dill with a knife, after washing and drying.
Add minced meat, chopped dill, pepper and salt. Mix everything thoroughly.
Fry potato pancakes in butter.

Recipe three

Very tasty pancakes with mushrooms. The list of ingredients is:

For pancakes:

600 grams of potatoes;
300 grams of fresh champignons;
2 eggs;
2 onions;
2 tablespoons of flour;
salt and pepper to taste.

For sauce:

200 grams of sour cream;
2-3 cloves of garlic;
dill greens;
salt.

How to cook? Everything is very simple:

Get started with mushrooms. Wash them well and cut into small pieces.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the mushrooms.
Now grate the previously peeled potatoes on a fine grater.
Peel the onion and finely chop it or chop it in a meat grinder or in a blender.
Combine the potato mass with mushrooms and onions, add flour, eggs, pepper and salt. Mix everything well.
Spread the mass in a pan, fry potato pancakes on each side for 4-7 minutes until golden brown.
Now prepare the sauce. To do this, peel the garlic and grate it on a fine grater, chop the dill with a knife (do not forget to wash it). Add dill with garlic to sour cream, salt everything and mix.
Serve hot pancakes with sauce.

A few useful tips for cooking potato pancakes:

If you decide to cook pancakes with filling, then make the filling in advance, it should be completely ready. So, if you use raw mushrooms, they will not be fried.
Start frying potato pancakes immediately after preparing the dough. Grated potatoes are not stored even in the refrigerator.
Spare no oil. It should cover half of the pancakes. If there is not enough oil, then potato pancakes will not be crispy and golden.
To remove excess oil after cooking, blot potato pancakes with paper towels.
Cook potato pancakes at once, as they will no longer be so tasty when heated. It is better to serve such a dish directly from the pan.

Now you know everything about cooking potato pancakes. Delight your household and guests with this simple but delicious dish!

What only dishes are not prepared from potatoes. It seems that it will hardly be possible to surprise your loved ones. However, appetizing potato pancakes with a golden crust, which are also called potato pancakes, will surely not leave your loved ones indifferent. Draniki are easy to prepare. Today there are a huge number of recipes. This is due to the fact that you can add sauerkraut, fried mushrooms, onions, garlic, greens and much more to your taste in potato pancake dough. Undoubtedly, this will no longer be a classic potato pancake recipe, but it’s not the name that matters, but the taste and gastronomic preferences of your loved ones. So, we bring to your attention a few pancake recipes.

To prepare this dish, it is better to grate the potatoes on a fine grater. Of course, it is much easier to rub on a coarse grater or pass through a meat grinder (food processor), but the tenderness of potato pancakes is lost. Therefore, it is better to spend a few extra minutes, but get a really tasty dish.

Recipe for potato pancakes with sour cream

Potatoes, grated on a fine grater, mixed with sour cream, add an egg. Everything is thoroughly mixed and salted. The resulting dough is spread with a tablespoon on a well-heated pan with vegetable oil. Then they are fried on both sides like regular pancakes.

Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Sour cream (30%) - 1 tablespoon;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.

Recipe for pancakes with onions

The onion is peeled and finely chopped. The smaller you cut the onion, the more uniform the pancakes will be. Grated potatoes are mixed with an egg, chopped onion, an egg is added. Everything is thoroughly mixed and salted.

Draniki are fried in a heated frying pan, frying on both sides.

For cooking you will need:
Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Onion - 1 pc.;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.

Recipe for potato pancakes with flour

Draniki prepared according to this recipe are especially loved at my house. In order for the pancakes not to turn out rubber, you must not overdo it with flour. Egg and flour are added to the grated potatoes. Flour is added gradually, all the while stirring the dough, which should turn out like sour cream (it is better not to add flour than to put too much). Don't forget to salt the resulting mixture. Draniki are fried on both sides in vegetable oil in a heated frying pan.

To make pancakes you will need:
Potatoes - 3 pcs.;
Egg - 1 pc.;
Flour - 2 tablespoons (approximately);
Salt - to taste;
Vegetable oil.

Draniki are served hot with sour cream. Potato pancakes are an appetizing and tasty dish during the preparation of which you can show your imagination and, perhaps, surprise your loved ones with your culinary skills.

To begin with, not every potato is suitable for potato pancakes, i.e. the taste of pancakes depends on the variety of potatoes, the place where the potatoes grew and the degree of their freshness. What to focus on? Early maturing varieties of potatoes are absolutely not suitable. Good potato pancakes are made from yellow potatoes. There is one, I don't know what it's called. But the taste of these potatoes is excellent. Potatoes from Central Asia are not suitable for potato pancakes. You can see the composition of the soil there. Our Siberian potatoes are the best option. The freshness of potatoes is as follows: although there is a tradition in my family to make potato pancakes from freshly harvested potatoes, this is not the best option. Potatoes should lie down for 2 months - then it will be the very thing. Well, if the potatoes are stored correctly, then you can use it until the new harvest.

In general, it is checked empirically - potato pancakes are made from the incoming batch - it becomes clear whether the potatoes are good or not.

Two more important points: forget about flour - real potato pancakes are made WITHOUT FLOUR. And forget about large graters and meat grinders - potatoes should be chopped to very small fractions.

Well, now the process with slides.

We clean potatoes. There is nothing special here, everything is elementary.

Now we grind. The best option is a grater, which looks like a piece of iron, into which nails have been driven in and it has bumps with sharp edges. Here is such. This is the most tedious and long process, but this is how the best taste is obtained.

When a lot of pancakes are made or there is little time, a different method of chopping potatoes can be used, which does not greatly impair the taste, but simplifies the cooking process. Potatoes are cut into cubes with a side of about 2 cm.

And it is crushed in a food processor with such knives to a mushy state.

Further, regardless of the grinding method, the technology is the same. Little know-how. The most harmful thing in cooking potato pancakes is the juice that is gradually released from the potatoes. Firstly, it dilutes the dough, which leads to a decrease in the thickness of potato pancakes (not buzzing), and, secondly, the dough turns black from it, and, as a result, potato pancakes (and this is unaesthetic). Yes, and the taste is spoiled. Therefore, we will try to get rid of excess juice in the process of creating the test. I use this mesh colander

We place the colander in a saucepan, where the juice will drain, put the chopped potato mass in the colander. And leave for 10 minutes. This is enough for the excess juice to flow out. It is not necessary to squeeze additionally and even harmful, otherwise the potato pancakes will turn out dry.

Another important point. When the juice drains, carefully pour it out of the saucepan. Starch remains at the bottom of the saucepan, which is added back to the potato mass.

Well, we actually make the dough: potato mass, eggs (a couple for 10 medium potatoes), salt to taste and starch from the drained juice.

mix

We take a frying pan with a thick bottom, ideally cast iron. I have a special frying pan for potato pancakes, which is probably 30 years old. We fry in sunflower oil. Yes, still, potato pancakes like a lot of butter, don't save much. We spread the dough on the pan with rather thick pancakes (about 1 cm thick or slightly less). The fire must be strong enough, so to speak, above average, this is empirically selected on different stoves. In such a way that pancakes are fried to a golden state in 2-3 minutes.

Flip over to the other side

Fry and put on a plate. Here is a photo of potato pancakes, for which the potatoes were chopped on a combine.

And then the potatoes were crushed on a grater.

That's all. Bon appetit. It is better to eat warm. Sour cream, ketchup to taste. Delicious and just like that.

Well, variations on the theme of potato pancakes. Family recipe for shvyndriks. We do everything as for potato pancakes. A pancake 2-3 mm thick is laid out in a frying pan, sausage plastic is also 2-3 mm on top, potato mass is again on top. Fried on one side, turned over, fried on the other side. Sausage is both boiled and smoked. Recipe for an amateur.

There is also a Belarusian dish, which in our family is called “jackdaws”. Pies are made from potato mass (as for potato pancakes, but a little drier) and minced meat as a filling. Fried on four sides. They are laid in a saucepan, a little water is added, spices can be added, and stewed until tender.

One of the most recognizable dishes of Belarusian cuisine, potato, is well known outside the republic. Of course, similar dishes are found in many other cuisines of the world. These are Ukrainian potato pancakes, and Russian Terunians, and Czech bramboraks, and even American hashbrown. And yet, potato pancakes have become the standard of these delicious fragrant potato pancakes. At first glance, there is nothing complicated in cooking potato pancakes. Judge for yourself, the simplest traditional recipe for this dish includes only potatoes and a pinch of salt. And yet, cooking even such a simple dish requires knowledge of little tricks and secrets. Secrets to help you make truly delicious traditional potato pancakes. Today let's try to figure it out together and remember how to cook potato pancakes.

Like any other popular folk dish, potato pancakes are famous for a huge variety of cooking recipes. From house to house, from region to region, the preparation methods and ingredients of this delicious dish change. Someone rubs potatoes for pancakes exclusively on a fine grater, while others recognize only those potato pancakes for which the potato mass was cooked on a coarse grater. Somewhere grated potatoes are mixed with a small amount of salt and simply fried. In other houses, they do not forget to add an onion to the potatoes, and the fried potato pancakes are additionally simmered in a stove or oven. And of course, additional ingredients are not limited to onions alone. Minced meat and pieces of minced poultry, vegetables and mushrooms, fresh herbs and a wide variety of spices, all these and many other additives allow skilled housewives to diversify the taste and aroma of ready potato pancakes.

And even the potato mass itself can be cooked in three different ways. Distinguish mass tarkovannaya, using grated potatoes along with the allocated juice; clinked mass, filtering off excess potato juice in a cone-shaped linen bag; and boiled potato mass, preparing potato pancakes from crushed boiled potatoes. Traditionally, draniki are made from sliced mass, but in modern Belarusian cuisine, all three types of potato mass are used separately or mixed and combined, trying to achieve an even greater variety of tastes from such a seemingly simple dish.

Today, "Culinary Eden" has collected and recorded for you the most important tips and cooking secrets, supplementing them with proven recipes that will surely tell even novice housewives how to cook potato pancakes.

1. Starting the preparation of potato pancakes, it is very important to choose the right potatoes. The fact is that Belarusian potatoes differ from Russian potatoes in a high content of starch. Thanks to this, ready-made potato pancakes retain their shape better. When choosing potatoes, pay attention to strong, mature tubers with a rough skin and a yellowish center. Be sure to ask to cut one tuber. Potatoes with a high starch content will immediately sparkle in the cut with starch crumbs contained in its juice. But it is better to refrain from buying young potatoes - the low starch content in it will not allow you to cook tasty and strong potato pancakes. If, contrary to expectations, the purchased potato contains an insufficient amount of starch, you can always add one or two teaspoons of starch to the finished potato mass.

2. As mentioned above, traditional potato pancakes are made from bagged potato mass. To prepare such a mass, peeled raw potatoes are grated. Depending on the recipe and personal preference, you can use a fine grater, a regular fine grater, or even a coarse grater. If you are lucky enough to visit Belarus, be sure to look in local stores for a special grater for hash browns. Squeeze out excess moisture from the finished potato mass and mix with additional astringent ingredients. The most commonly used ingredients are wheat flour and potato starch. Modern cuisine also allows the use of finely ground cornmeal. Such flour will give your pancakes a beautiful golden hue. One tablespoon of cold milk or kefir added to raw potato mass will help your potato pancakes to avoid an unappetizing gray tint. The finished dough should be quite liquid, but at the same time viscous.

3. Pancakes are fried by spooning a small amount of potato mass into a frying pan with hot oil. The most delicious and fragrant are pancakes cooked in good ghee, but the vegetable oil will not spoil your potato pancakes, just do not forget that only refined vegetable oil is suitable for frying. Pour the oil into the pan so that the potato pancakes are covered with it to half their thickness. Heat the oil over high heat, spread the tarkovanny mass with a spoon so that at least one centimeter of free space remains between the potato pancakes, and quickly fry the potato pancakes on both sides. Be extremely careful, try not to burn yourself with hot oil splashes!

4. Let's try to cook the simplest traditional pancakes with onions! Grate one onion and six large potato tubers on a fine grater. Squeeze out excess vegetable juice, add one raw egg, one tbsp. a spoonful of kefir, salt and black pepper to taste. Thoroughly mix the potato mass and fry your potato pancakes on both sides, spreading them in small portions in hot ghee or vegetable oil. Ready pancakes immediately serve to the table. Serve sour cream separately.

5. Unusual pancakes with pumpkin are very tasty. Peel and grate on a fine grater 500 gr. potatoes, one onion and 100 gr. pumpkin pulp. Squeeze out excess vegetable juice, add one minced garlic clove, one raw egg and one tablespoon of sour cream. Add salt and black pepper to taste and mix thoroughly. Fry in vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown. Serve hot with sour cream or pork rinds.

6. Those who can't imagine their meal without meat will definitely like potato pancakes with minced meat. Peel and grate on a fine grater 700 gr. potatoes and one large onion. Pass through a meat grinder with a fine grate for 150 gr. lean pork and beef. Mix the vegetable mass with minced meat, add one egg, one tbsp. a spoonful of kefir, two tbsp. tablespoons flour, salt and black pepper to taste. Thoroughly mix the resulting mass and fry potato pancakes in ghee or vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown. Serve with sour cream, fresh herbs and vegetables.

7. Delicious pancakes with mushrooms will decorate your Lenten menu. Soak one cup of any dried mushrooms for 20 minutes in a little cool water, then rinse thoroughly and boil in three cups of water for 15 minutes. Pour the mushroom broth into a separate bowl, and finely chop the mushrooms. Finely chop one onion and fry it in a small amount of vegetable oil until golden brown. 700 gr. grate the potatoes on a fine grater and squeeze out excess moisture. Mix potatoes, onions and mushrooms, add 4 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, salt and black pepper to taste and mix everything thoroughly again. Fry potato pancakes in vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown. Prepare the mushroom sauce separately. In a saucepan, heat 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, add 2 tbsp. spoons of flour and mix thoroughly. Then, stirring constantly, add 2 cups of boiling mushroom broth and bring the sauce to a boil. Add salt and pepper to taste and, continuing to stir, cook your sauce until thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Serve the finished sauce to the potato pancakes.

8. Draniki with cheese are very fragrant and tasty. Peel and grate on a fine grater 500 gr. potatoes and one onion. Grate two hundred grams of any hard cheese on a coarse grater. Mix vegetables and cheese, add 5 tbsp. spoons of flour, two raw eggs, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, salt to taste. Mix the dough thoroughly and fry potato pancakes on both sides in vegetable oil over medium heat until golden brown. Serve hot with any hot sauce and fresh herbs.

9. Extraordinarily tasty, fragrant and tender potato pancakes are obtained, additionally baked in the oven. Grate on a fine grater 500 gr. potatoes and one onion. Squeeze out excess juice and add one egg, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, salt and black pepper to taste. Mix thoroughly and fry potato pancakes as usual. In a separate skillet, heat 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, add two onions, cut into rings, and fry until golden brown. When the onion is ready, add 200 gr. pork belly, cut into small cubes, salt and black pepper to taste. Fry the meat until cooked through for 15 minutes, stirring often. Lay the finished potato pancakes in layers in a cast-iron pot or a deep baking dish, alternating them with layers of fried meat with onions. Pour everything with one glass of sour cream and bake in an oven preheated to 180⁰ for 30 - 40 minutes.

10. On weekends, pancakes with cottage cheese can also be served for breakfast. Grate on fine grater 500 gr. potatoes and squeeze out excess moisture. 200 gr. wipe low-fat dry cottage cheese through a rare sieve or colander. Mix potatoes with cottage cheese, add one raw egg, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, one pinch of soda and salt. Mix the mass thoroughly and fry the potato pancakes over medium heat in vegetable oil until golden brown. Serve with sour cream or any sweet and sour fruit sauce.

And on the pages of "Culinary Eden" you can always find even more proven recipes and original ideas that will definitely tell you how to cook potato pancakes.

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