To diversify your menu, and especially on Maslenitsa days, prepare funny pink pancakes with natural dye and boiled beets. The light beetroot taste of pancakes will sparkle in a special way! I assure you will love it.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Glamorous beetroot pancakes are not only tasty, but also a very healthy dish. Beets give food a beautiful bright color, and many vitamins necessary for the body. At the same time, the taste of the vegetable itself is practically not felt in pancakes. Serving such pancakes is good for breakfast, lunch, or just as a snack. Of course. If there are stocks of boiled beets in the refrigerator, because it takes a long time to prepare.
It is very easy to prepare such pancakes. You can use the ingredients that I suggest, or your own proven ones. Then you only need to add a little beet. In addition, such pancakes can be stuffed and stuffed with all kinds of fillings. A pancake rolled into a roll and cut into portioned rolls with contrasting fillings looks especially beautiful. For example, processed cheese or cottage cheese.
Pancakes of many colors can be baked in the same way. For example, red ones - with tomato juice, orange - with carrots, yellow - with pumpkin, green - with spinach, etc. To do this, the vegetables will need to be boiled and mashed. Well, then, it's a matter of technology.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 170 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 30 minutes - cooking pancakes, 2-3 hours - boiling and cooling beets
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 glass
- Sour cream - 200 mg
- Mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Beets - 1 pc.
- Salt - a pinch
- Sugar - 4-5 tablespoons or to taste
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
Making pink pancakes
1. Boil or bake beets in the oven. You can use any method of heat treatment, it will not affect the taste of the finished dish. But baking is much more useful, because some of the vitamins will not be evaporated from the root crop.
After the vegetable is cooled to room temperature, peel, cut into pieces and put in a bowl for kneading pancake dough.
2. Grind the beets with a blender until smooth and smooth. If there is no such kitchen "gadget", then grate the beets on a fine grater or grind through a sieve.
3. Pour sour cream, mayonnaise and eggs into the beetroot puree.
4. Stir the products well until smooth, and pour in the vegetable oil, add a pinch of salt and add sugar to taste.
5. Stir the ingredients again and add flour. It can be sieved through a sieve for oxygen enrichment. Then the pancakes will be more tender.
6. The liquid mass will turn out to be quite thick for pancakes, in which case wonderful pancakes will come out. So you can bake them a little. And for pancake dough, pour a glass of drinking water and knead the food. If there is not enough liquid, add it, bringing the dough to the desired consistency.
7. Place the pan on the stove and heat it up. Pour the dough with a ladle and let it spread over the entire surface.
8. Fry the pancake on both sides until golden brown, about 1.5-2 minutes on each side.
9. Roll up the prepared pancakes and serve. They can be served with any additions: sour cream, jam, jam, honey, etc.
See also the video recipe on how to make pink pancakes with filling.
