For Shrovetide, all housewives are busy looking for the best pancake recipes. However, baking them is only half the battle, you still have to serve them beautifully. Each housewife strives to master the skill of how beautiful and interesting it is to wrap pancakes, since their original presentation immediately attracts attention. Therefore, to be able to properly roll them up, decorate, stuff them, sometimes, it becomes simply necessary!
The method of folding pancakes depends on the filling. For liquid products and caviar, open forms, a triangle or a tube are suitable. Closed forms are suitable for stuffing like pâté. "Empty" pancakes with sour cream or jam are also beautifully rolled up so that they look original and unusual.
Pancake design options
Triangles (classic)
Fold the pancake in half and again in half to make a triangle. Such a pancake can be laid out on a dish with a funnel - tops towards its center, and the center can be decorated with a composition of pancake strips in the form of roses.
Portions (usual serving)
2 pancakes are folded, offset on top of each other, two or four times and poured with sauce on top.
Double triangle
A blank (jam, cottage cheese, fruit) is placed in the center of the pancake and closed by 1/3 of the diameter with one edge. After, they also do with the edges on the right and left. The free side is formed so that you get a square. The resulting structure is folded in half diagonally so that the triangle comes out. For this method, the main condition is thin pancakes and a small amount of filling.
Triple triangle
The filling (minced meat) is placed in the center of the pancake and covered with 3 edges to make a triangle. Then each vertex is superimposed on the seams, and a triangle is formed.
Envelope
The filling is laid out in the center of the pancake, covered with one end of the blank, and covered with the left and right edges on top. The filling is pressed a little so that it fits snugly around the pancake edges and the structure is wrapped in a rectangle or roll. A dry and crumbly filling is suitable for such a serving.
Square
The filling is placed in the middle of the workpiece, leveled, closed with the right and left edges. The same is repeated with the top and bottom edges. For this method, a dense filling, for example, meat, is suitable.
Rolls and straws (simple option)
The "empty" pancake is rolled up and laid out on a plate on top of each other, in a pyramid or a "house with a roof". This option can be used for salmon filling. Then the pancake can still be beautifully cut obliquely, in oblique pieces, in the form of rolls.
If the pancakes are stuffed (honey, jam, cottage cheese), then the pancake is wrapped a little differently. To prevent the contents from falling out, the filling is located along one top edge. The side edges are slightly closed, and the pancake is rolled up into a tube. This serving is used for baked goods with red or black caviar, or more liquid products.
Pouch
A dessert spoon of absolutely any filling is placed in the center of the pancake. The edges of the pancakes are collected up to the center and fixed (tied) with a green onion feather, an onion ring, a strip of suluguni cheese.
Candies
Dessert pancakes, for example, chocolate colored, are stuffed with sweet cottage cheese or fruit. Next, the workpiece is rolled up with a tube, and the edges are tied with a ribbon, which is improvised from the peel of an orange, lemon or other products. It turns out a funny and unusual pancake "candy".
Multilayer rolls
Take 3 pancakes, apply a different dense filling to each of them and roll them up with a tube. These rolls are folded towards each other in the form of a triangle (2 on the bottom and 1 on top) and placed on the edge of the fourth pancake, which is folded neatly. The structure is cooled in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to take shape, after which it is cut into portions.
Openwork lace
The dough is poured into a frying pan from a pastry bag or any other kitchen device in the form of beautiful patterns. Next, the pancake is baked as usual on both sides until golden brown. You can serve it in a classic way, laying it in a pile, or you can stuff it. To do this, ordinary pancakes are baked or a leaf of lettuce is taken, the filling is wrapped in them, and the resulting structure is wrapped in an openwork pancake.
Rosette
The rosette is made from an empty pancake or thinly sliced ham is wrapped in the blank. Baked pancakes are cut into strips, each of them is rolled up in the form of a rose. At first, the bud folds tightly, then looser and wider from one edge. Rosettes are laid on the plates with the base down so that they stand steadily.
How to serve pancakes?
If the dish is prepared with unsweetened filling, then it can be decorated with chopped vegetables, herbs, caviar, or sprinkled with unsweetened sauce. The sweet filling will be in perfect harmony with fresh, frozen or canned fruits and berries, sweet sauces, caramel, chocolate, sour cream and cream. The composition can be supplemented with a sprig of mint and lemon balm.
Useful tips for making and decorating pancakes
- Pancakes are not all golden brown - after folding, fry additionally until golden brown.
- To make the pancakes tender and not dry, grease them with butter before stuffing, or if the filling allows with melted cheese.
- To make the pancakes tasty to eat, it is advisable to warm them up in the microwave or oven before serving.
- For spongy pancakes, add cream and proteins to the dough.
- If the dough is kneaded, and you plan to bake pancakes later, then you can store it for no more than 2 days.
- If the dough is overexposed and sour, add water with flour and let it rise for half an hour.
The pancakes themselves can be made in different colors, more beautiful or with an original taste. For example, put beets in the dough, then the pancakes will be burgundy, spinach will make them green, pumpkin - yellow-orange, kneaded dough with tomato juice will give the pancakes a red hue. You can also add poppy seeds, coconut or chocolate chips, finely crushed nuts to the dough.
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