How To Cook The Most Delicious Potato Pancakes

In this article, learn more about How To Cook The Most Delicious Potato Pancakes. For dinner, we offer to cook potato pancakes..

 

For dinner, we offer to cook potato pancakes. A quick and budget dish that will delight anyone. In addition, potato pancakes can be served with fish, meat, mushroom or sour cream sauce. Sweet potato flavor, crispy crust, awesome smell and fresh yogurt-garlic sauce are the perfect combination. And if you add salted salmon or caviar - in general, you can swallow your tongue!

We present you the classic recipe for draniki, as well as draniki without eggs, with minced meat, fish, baked draniki in a pot. For hearty and juicy potato pancakes, you can prepare a sauce based on cottage cheese, garlic and herbs or your favorite tzatziki. All recipes are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and detailed descriptions.

 

Draniki without eggs

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These pancakes contain nothing but potatoes, onions and a tablespoon of flour. Real potato pancakes can be prepared for fasting, as well as for those who do not eat eggs. We use a grater or combine with the appropriate nozzle. By the way, some people like potato pancakes, for which potatoes are rubbed on a fine grater, and some - large chips. Onions also change the taste of potato pancakes. Prepare different potato pancakes and choose your option.

 

Draniki with meat in pots

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Draniki with meat in pots can be found in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and other cuisines. The cooking process is as follows: grind the ingredients, make the dough and fry the potato pancakes in oil. And you can already eat them! But if you still fry vegetables, and then bake in the oven together with potato pancakes and cream, it will be incredibly tasty! You can use any minced meat - pork, beef or mix.

 

Draniki with ham, cheese and herbs

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For pancakes with ham, cheese and herbs, we need ham - chicken, pork or other, hard cheese, seasonal fresh or dried herbs. By the way, the variety of cheese can be not one, but several. Grate the potatoes and cheese, finely chop the ham, chop the greens. Mix everything and fry pancakes in oil until golden brown.

 

Draniki with salmon, caviar and cottage cheese sauce

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We prepare the dough for potato pancakes from potatoes, flour, eggs and salt. We rub the potatoes, mix with other ingredients and immediately fry until the juice has risen. It is necessary to fry potato pancakes in a hot frying pan with a large amount of vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. tablespoons as a minimum, adding oil as needed. One pancake is fried for about a couple of minutes - a minute and a half on each side. Cut the salted salmon thinly and twist it into a nest, put it on a potato pancake. Add a spoonful of cottage cheese sauce (recipe below) and garnish with fresh dill. You can put red caviar in the nest. Beauty and food!

 

Czech draniki with pork and beer

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Czech potato pancakes or bramboraki are cooked with pork, fragrant spices and light beer! Alcohol evaporates, leaving the taste of beer, so these pancakes can be safely given to children. Preparing bramboraki is simple: we rub potatoes, chop meat, onions. Then we mix the ingredients, adding spices, beer, egg and flour. And fry in oil until done. With sour cream - just super!

 

Sauce "Tzatziki"

Turkish-Greek "Tzatziki" is usually served with meze and warm bread, and in a more liquid version - with meat and salads. When cooking, it is important to squeeze fresh cucumbers well from the juice, and also use full-fat yogurt - Greek is best. In winter, we suggest using pickled gherkins. By the way, the sauce with gherkins is prepared in a blender in no time.

Variant with fresh cucumber - summer

half a long cucumber 2 garlic cloves, pressed through a press 2 tbsp. tablespoons olive oil 500 ml Greek yogurt a bunch of dill, finely chopped a couple of sprigs of mint, crushed with your hands lemon dried mint if desired

Peel the cucumber, cut in half and cut out the seeds. Rub the rest on a grater. Put the grated cucumber in a sieve over a bowl and season with salt. Leave while you cook potato pancakes, sometimes stirring and squeezing, or better - for several hours. Then lay out on a paper towel and dry. Mix garlic with olive oil. Add cucumber and yogurt to the mixture. Stir and add dill, mint. At the end of cooking, salt, add dried mint, if using, and lemon juice to taste.

Variant with gherkins - winter

3-4 pickled gherkins 2 garlic cloves 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons olive oil 500 ml natural or Greek yogurt or sour cream dried mint dried dill lemon juice salt

Whisk all ingredients in a blender. Taste and add salt and lemon juice to taste.

 

Cottage cheese sauce with herbs and garlic

Curd and sour cream sauce with garlic and herbs is the best for potato pancakes. Fresh herbs can be replaced with dried ones during the cold season.

a pack of cottage cheese (regular or grained) or 200 g 2-3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream 2-3 cloves of garlic, pass through a press fresh or dried herbs to taste, finely chop

Mix all ingredients well and serve immediately. You can store this dip in a container with a lid for 2-3 days in the refrigerator. It's good with bread and chips.