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Potato pancakes: Belarusian cuisine. Video
Delicious and aromatic Belarusian potato pancakes can be quickly prepared for dinner, when after a working day there is no energy left for a long cooking. Another advantage of this simple dish: to prepare it in the traditional version, you need a minimum of ingredients: potatoes and a pinch of salt. In addition, you can diversify your menu by adopting several recipes for potato pancakes with various fillings.
We are learning how to cook real Belarusian potato pancakes.
How to cook potato pancakes in Belarusian
(detailed step by step instructions)
The appearance and taste of potato pancakes largely depends on the quality of the potatoes chosen for them. Belarusian potatoes differ from Russian potatoes in a large amount of starch contained in it, so cooked potato pancakes retain their shape better. Choose strong and mature tubers that have a rough skin and a yellowish core. To determine the latter, ask the vendor to cut one potato.
If the potatoes used for cooking potato pancakes have an insufficient amount of starch, you can add 2 teaspoons to the dough. potato starch.
Potato pancakes are good with sour cream.
To prepare the tared mass, peel the potato tubers and then grate them. Depending on your preference and the recipe you choose, you can use a standard fine grater, a fine grater or a coarse grater.
After preparing the potato mass, squeeze out excess moisture, and then mix with astringent ingredients such as potato starch, wheat flour, or finely ground corn flour, which will color the potato pancakes with a golden hue.
If you do not like the greenish-gray shade of potato pancakes, you can get rid of it by adding 1 tbsp. l. cold kefir or milk. The prepared dough should be viscous and thin enough.
It is best to cook potato pancakes in ghee, but you can also use refined vegetable oil. Pour enough oil into a preheated skillet to cover half the thickness of the potato pancakes. Spread the dough with a spoon in the pan so that there is at least 1 cm of free space between the pancakes.
Fry potato pancakes over high heat on both sides, turning them over with a wide spatula. At the same time, be careful not to burn yourself with splashes of hot oil.