Each housewife has her own answer to this question, and several secrets that help make the dough for thin, lacy pancakes especially tasty.
Thin pancakes are very popular in all European countries. They like to eat for breakfast, lunch and just when you want to eat something delicious.
Not everyone can boast of the ability to bake thin pancakes, but in this article we will give some tips that will help you master this not the easiest lesson.
The thin pancake dough comes out best from a mixture of water and milk, as water makes the pancakes stronger and the milk tastier, finding the optimal proportions will help you achieve the desired effect and get delicious thin pancakes that will not tear during cooking.
Many novice housewives have a question: how to mix flour and milk correctly? To get the correct dough without lumps, the flour must be added to the milk, stirring thoroughly.
Whisking pancake dough is easier in a blender, but hand-beaten dough is much tastier.
And one more tip, do not be lazy to sift flour through a sieve, it acquires additional airiness and is saturated with oxygen.
In order to make delicious pancakes, it is important not only to make the dough correctly, but also to choose a pan. The best pancakes are made in a cast-iron pan, in which nothing else is fried except for pancakes. It is recommended to light a new frying pan with salt. Add salt and simply wipe the pan with a cloth.
During frying, it is better not to pour oil, but simply lubricate its surface with a brush or half a potato, dipping it in oil.
Thin pancakes
Ingredients:
- Milk – 700 ml.
- Egg – 4 pcs.
- Flour – 8 Art. l
- Vegetable oil – 1 Art. l
- Sugar – 1 st. l.
- Salt – pinch
Heat the milk. Measure out one glass and mix with eggs, sugar and salt. Gradually add flour, stirring continuously to prevent lumps from forming. After the mass is homogeneous, start pouring the remaining milk into it, stirring continuously in the same way. The consistency of the dough should be like heavy cream.
Heat a skillet over medium heat, pouring out the dough so that it completely fills the surface of the skillet. The frying time is approximately 1 minute on each side. You need to focus on the pimples that appear on the dough during frying.
You need to fold the pancakes in a stack, greasing each side with butter.
Empanadas
Ingredients:
- Kefir – 2 tbsp.
- Water – 1 tbsp.
- Egg – 1 pcs.
- Flour – 2 Art.
- Sugar – 1/2 cup
- Salt – pinch
- Soda – 1 tsp.
- Vegetable oil – 2 Art. l
- Butter – for greasing pancakes
- Boneless beef – 400 gr.
- Luk – 1 No.
- Carrots – 1 pieces.
- Garlic – 3 cloves
- Salt – to taste
- Pepper to taste
Beat the egg with salt and sugar. Add kefir and mix thoroughly. Gradually add flour, stirring so that no lumps form. We add soda, warm water, all this time the dough needs to be mixed and at the very end we add vegetable oil.
For the filling: we pass the meat through a meat grinder, add onions and carrots to it. We put everything in a pan, salt and pepper and fry until tender.
In a pan for pancakes, heat some oil and bake thin pancakes, stacking them and greasing with butter on each side.
We put the filling on each pancake and wrap it, calculate the amount of filling yourself, so that the pancake is neatly wrapped and not torn.
Fry pancakes in oil on all sides. Serve with sour cream.
Chocolate pancakes
These are not ordinary pancakes topped with chocolate, but real pancakes made from chocolate.
Ingredients:
- Milk – 250 ml.
- Flour – 150 gr.
- Egg – 1 pcs.
- Chocolate – 50 gr.
- Cocoa – 1 Art. l
- Vanilla sugar – 1 pinch
- Salt – pinch
- Sugar – 2 st. l.
- Olive oil – 2 Art. l
We heat the milk, put the chocolate in there and wait for it to dissolve. The resulting mixture must be cooled.
Beat the egg with sugar, salt and vanilla sugar. Add the milk-chocolate mixture.
Stir constantly, add cocoa and flour. You need to stir constantly so that there are no lumps. When the dough is ready, add the vegetable oil.
Preheat the pan, grease it with oil and fry the pancakes for a minute on each side. We put them in a slide and grease them with butter.
You can serve chocolate pancakes with whipped cream, jam, or any other fillings.
Pancakes with apple filling
Ingredients:
- Milk – 500 ml.
- Egg – 3 pcs.
- Flour – 6-7 tbsp. l.
- Vegetable oil – 1 Art. l
- Sugar – 1 st. l.
- Salt – pinch
- Apples – 3 pcs.
- Lemon zest – ½
- Sugar – 3-4 tbsp. l
- Starch – 3 tsp
- Water – 3-4 tbsp. l.
Preparing pancake dough. Beat egg, sugar and salt. Add milk, stirring constantly, add flour, so that no lumps form. The dough should be very liquid, like cream, when it’s done, add the vegetable oil to it and stir.
Cut the apples into small cubes, mix them with the lemon zest and put in a frying pan with water, sauté until the apples are soft. Add sugar, starch, mix thoroughly and remove from heat.
Put the filling on pancakes, wrap it in an envelope and fry in a pan. Serve the pancakes with a little chill, as the hot filling can burn your mouth.
Pink pancakes
Few of the children can resist the temptation to steal a freshly baked pancake from a plate, and already this bright pink pancakes will not leave anyone indifferent.
Ingredients:
- Milk – 250 ml.
- Beet juice – 50 ml.
- Egg – 1 pcs.
- Flour – 6 Art. l
- Sugar – 1 st. l.
- Salt – pinch
- Vegetable oil – 1 Art. l
Beat the egg with sugar and salt, pour in milk, stir, add flour in small portions, stirring thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
Preheat a frying pan, fry the pancakes for one minute on each side, stack the pancakes in a pile, greasing them with oil.
Thin hot pink pancakes are ready.
Bon Appetit!!!
Every hostess can cook pancakes, the main thing is to fill your hand and then this process will take you a minimum of time and give great pleasure to you and everyone at home, and on the pages of our website you will find many new recipes for making delicious pancakes.