How to cook potato pancakes?

Draniki is a traditional Belarusian home dish. For their simplicity and wonderful taste of draniki fell in love throughout Europe. Someone cooks them with cheese, someone - with zucchini, but regardless of the additives, the taste is always obtained excellent. Therefore, we want to tell you a few recipes, how to cook potato pancakes and make this dish traditional for your family.

How to cook delicious potato pancakes with minced meat?

This is truly royal draniki, and if you ever cook them at home, they will become your family's favorite dish.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Minced meat for this dish will suit anyone, it's absolutely not important, so here you can rely only on your taste. We add minced chopped onion and garlic, spices and salt. If the stuffing is very tight, add some water to make it juicier. We clean the potato and mine, grind it on a large grater, get rid of excess liquid. Onions three together with potatoes, in turn - it will not let it go dark. Even so that the potatoes do not darken, keep it until rubbed in cold water. Also add to the potato mass flour, salt, egg and mix well. Well warm the oil in a frying pan, spoon spread potatoes, as if splashing it into a thin pancake. From the stuffing we form a lozenge and put it on top of the potatoes. On top again, close the potato paste and lightly press down. After the dranits are turned upside down, cover them with a lid so that the stuffing inside is steamed. Serve pancakes traditionally - with sour cream.

Belarusian potato dranits

Belarusian draniki, or as they say in Belarus - deruny, differ from others in a simple composition and very delicate texture. Potatoes are rubbed not on the usual grater, but on the part that turns it into puree. This recipe describes in detail how to properly prepare Belarusian potato pancakes.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Potatoes are cleaned and mashed in puree with a special grater for mashing or blender. We do the same with onions. If after this, the liquid has separated from the potato mass, it can be drained. We drive in egg puree, salt and mix well. Fry the pancakes in a frying pan, spreading a lot with a spoon. Serve this dish best with sour cream.

Draniki Crispy

There are many recipes for preparing pancakes, and each has its own charm. In this recipe, we will tell you how to make crispy potato pancakes, which will perfectly replace the chips .

Ingredients:

Preparation

We peel potatoes and rub on a large grater, onion on the contrary - on shallow, combine them, drive in an egg, add salt and mix. In order to draniki were crispy, you need to get rid of excess moisture. To do this, we take a cotton cloth or gauze, pour the potato stuffing into it, spin and squeeze out all the excess liquid. In the dried potatoes spill out the spices and starch.

If at hand there was no dry starch, we will use our own starch of our potatoes. The liquid that we squeezed out is not poured out, but we let it stand for a few minutes. Starch will settle on the bottom, then you need to gently drain the liquid, collect it with a spoon and send it to the grated potatoes.

Very well we heat a frying pan, we pour oil about 5 mm. With a tablespoon we lay out the potato stuffing, and press it down with a spatula immediately, to make pancakes thicker than 8 mm. When the pancakes grapple a little, you need to move them gently or raise them to run the oil. We put ready draniki on a napkin made of paper or on a towel. Before serving, you can sprinkle with paprika.