It is known that the word "pancake" came from the old Russian "Mlyn". In the Ukrainian language it is preserved and means “mill”. That is, in Kievan Rus, pancakes were called dishes from ground grain. This was mainly wheat flour, less often buckwheat, rye and oatmeal. This is not to say that pancakes are Slavic know-how. Other nations also have pancakes, crepes, tartillas. But their recipe is somewhat different from the Slavic one. However, with the passage of time, the peoples of Eastern Europe began to prepare “millys” in different ways. There were executioners, plaques and, of course, Russian pancakes. These last ones differ from smooth thin pancakes with a loose, nostril structure and a large number of holes. You can eat this dish yourself, seasoning with butter or sour cream. And you can serve them other dishes. In this article we will consider what to cook with pancakes.
Ancient recipe
We know that in Kievan Rus, yeast was used to prepare the dish. This is how pancakes differ from pancakes and cloisters. Yeast makes products thicker, softer, lush. Let's look at how to cook homemade pancakes according to an old recipe. We heat a liter of milk to about 30 C. Cut 10 g of yeast there. Pour a spoonful of sugar and set aside in heat for 10 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with a teaspoon of salt. Gradually add flour (approximately 400 g). Knead the batter. Cover the dishes with cling film and leave for two hours. Every twenty minutes, the dough must be mixed so that the process of reproduction of yeast bacteria runs evenly. After two hours, pour in 30 g of melted butter. Stir and start baking. The pan must be cast iron and certainly hot. Lubricate its surface with oil and pour a little dough. We move the pan from side to side so that it spreads into a pancake. Turn over and fry on the other side.
Choux pastry
Classic Russian pancakes are thick and satisfying. Unlike almost transparent, surprisingly delicate palatums. Let's now learn how to cook thin pancakes. The recipe requires first beat two eggs with a spoonful of sugar and a pinch of salt. Pour half a liter of warm milk and 25-30 g of melted butter. Add three hundred grams of sifted wheat flour. When the dough becomes uniform and thick, steam it with 350 ml of boiling water. Leave for ten minutes. After that, bake on both sides. Ready pancakes are stacked, shifting them with a piece of butter. There are other recipes for pancake dough: on kefir, whey, with the addition of beer or mineral water. For Shrovetide or breakfast, we usually eat “solo” items, seasoned with honey, sour cream, jam or just butter. But there are tons of pancake stuffing recipes. The filling can be meat and offal, fish, caviar, cottage cheese, apples or vegetables.
How to cook pancakes with minced meat?
It is more correct to call this dish shamrocks, because products from thin elastic dough begin. Russian classic pancakes are not quite suitable for this purpose. Their loose structure does not allow folding them envelopes. So, bake about fifteen thin pancakes. Now in a preheated pan, fry the finely chopped onion in oil. Before you make pancakes with minced meat, you need to fry it. Add 300 grams of ground meat to the onion. Fry for about ten minutes, stirring. Add salt and favorite spices. We highly recommend sprinkling the minced meat with fresh herbs. Now on the edge of the pancake we put a couple of spoons of the filling. Turn the edges and form the envelope. This is if you are thinking of serving pancakes with minced meat for hot. Then they need to be fried a little more until golden brown in a skillet or heated in the oven. If pancakes are served as a cold appetizer, then you need to turn off the claddings differently. Put the filling in the middle of the pancake. Pick the edges to get a “knapsack". Tie it with a stalk of green onions.
Pancakes with mushrooms
We proceed, as in the previous recipe. We bake with a dozen thin elastic pancakes. They need to be fried without fanaticism, as too browned products become brittle and brittle. So that they retain their elasticity, we still coat them with a small piece of butter while still hot. Now we learn how to cook pancakes with mushrooms. For the filling of 250-300 grams of any (edible!) Mushrooms, wash and finely chop. Shred the onion. Stew these two ingredients on 2-3 tablespoons of sunflower oil under a lid for about a quarter of an hour. Season with salt and black pepper. Then fry for another ten minutes without a lid. When the filling has cooled completely, we stuff pancakes with it, folding them with an envelope. We spread them in a frying pan in hot butter with the seam down and warm them under the lid.
Cheesecakes with cheese
This dish can be made both dessert and savory. You can use cottage cheese or a lot of it, as well as creamy or hard cheese. For dessert pancakes we use dried fruits (prunes, raisins, dried apricots), poppy seeds, sugar. Before you make pancakes with cheese for the second, you need to bake unsweetened blanks. That is, add a little more salt and less sugar to the dough. Here is a very original cheese pancake recipe . Beat two eggs with salt and sugar. Add warm milk. Continuing to beat, add a glass of flour and a little baking powder. Three directly into the dough 150 grams of hard cheese. Add the same half of the dill bunch there. Stir the dough and bake pancakes on both sides. Serve with sour cream.
Czech soup "Panadelle"
When you think what to cook with pancakes, the last thing that comes to mind is the first dishes. But what's so surprising about that? After all, we eat soups with noodles or broth with homemade noodles. And why are pancakes worse? Especially if there are a couple of them left from yesterday, too few to feed the family. And here comes the original recipe for Czech soup. "Panadelle" is an ordinary chicken broth, amber, transparent, fragrant, moderately fat. But instead of noodles are put in it ... you seem to have guessed. Let's roll each pancake into a tight roll. We cut it into transverse strips. You get such pancake noodles. Put it on a plate and fill it with hot broth. The Panadel soup idea can be applied to ordinary scrambled eggs. Pour the pancake noodles into the heated oil in a frying pan. Stir to get an even layer, and drive eggs on top.
Pancakes for breakfast
There are many recipes for "recycling" these products. Usually they are made in a tall pile, and they all are not eaten. Russian pancakes are very satisfying, and they are stale quickly. In order not to throw away the leftovers, zealous housewives came up with different ways to feed their households so that they did not twist their nose, but asked for supplements. The first option is fried eggs. Put the pancake in the pan. We break an egg on it. Cover with a pancake half. After two minutes, turn over. The same can be done with a slice of hard cheese or feta. What to cook with pancakes for breakfast? If you still have stuffed plaques, fold them in a tight row on a baking sheet. Make egg and sour cream sauce. Pour the claddings with this mixture and bring to readiness in the oven. Powder the casserole with grated cheese a couple of minutes before turning it off.
What to cook with pancakes for the holiday?
At weddings in the Poltava region a stuffed duck is served. Skin is removed from the bird, leaving wings and paws intact. The meat is separated from the bones, ground and stuffed with pancakes. And those, in turn, become the filling for the duck. They fill the skin, giving it the appearance of a whole carcass. Then bake the duck in the oven with sour cream sauce. Pancake cake is a classic. Each shamrock is greased with mayonnaise and liver paste. Give the pile a soak and serve cold, slicing like a cake. There are two ways to make pancakes for a salad. The first is to cut the plaques along with other ingredients. Pancakes are in good harmony with boiled eggs, chicken, salmon, smoked fish, tomatoes, mushrooms, goat cheese, onions. The second way is to wrap the salad in a plaque, bandaging it with a green stalk or threading it into a ring of onions.