So that the pancake is not lumpy: secrets and TOP-5 different recipes

2024 Author: Arianna Cook | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:55

A selection of valuable tips for making pancakes. Step by step interesting recipes. Video recipes. Beautiful presentation and history of the origin of pancakes.

Pancakes on the water: lean recipe

Pancakes on water are durable and elastic, while thin and neat. It is good to use them for stuffing with various fillings. They are also suitable for those who follow their figure and follow a diet.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 1 tbsp.
• Water - 2 tbsp.
• Starch - 1 tablespoon
• Salt - a pinch
• Sugar - 1 tablespoon
• Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons

Step by step cooking pancakes in water:

1. Mix water, sugar and salt.
2. Gradually add sifted flour with starch and knead the dough until thick sour cream is thick.
3. Pour in vegetable oil and mix well.
4. Bake the pancakes for 30-40 seconds on each side.

Colored pancakes on kefir

Pancakes with kefir are denser than those with water or milk. The dough is thicker, so to bake thinner pancakes, add a little water, or preferably milk.

Colored pancakes can be of different shades. To do this, add a special ingredient to the dough.

• Green pancakes. Add dry pounded parsley or frozen chopped spinach to the dough. Pre-dip the spinach in boiling water for 30 seconds, discard in a colander and pour over with cold water. This will give more pigment.
• Black pancakes. Add melted chocolate or cocoa powder to the dough.
• Pink pancakes can be made using beetroot, raspberry, or strawberry juice. Squeeze liquid from fresh or frozen fruit and add this juice to the dough.
• Purple pancakes are made from the juice of dark berries, such as blueberries or blackberries.

• Orange pancakes. Add a dash of turmeric or curry powder to the dough. Another option is to use grated carrots or carrot juice.

  

  Ingredients:

  • Flour - 1 tbsp.
  • Kefir - 1 tbsp.
  • Eggs - 1 pc.
  • Beet juice - 1 tbsp
  • Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons
  • Salt - a pinch
  • Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
  • Soda - 0.5 tsp

  Step-by-step preparation of colored pancakes on kefir:

  1. Sift flour and mix with baking soda.
  2. Mix the beaten eggs, salt and sugar separately.
  3. Combine the egg mass with kefir and beet juice.
  4. Pour this mixture into flour and stir.
  5. Add vegetable oil, stir and start baking pancakes.

  Openwork pancakes with whey

  

  Pancakes on whey are the most fluffy and tender, with a slight pleasant sourness in the taste.

  Ingredients:

  • Flour - 1 tbsp.
  • Serum - 2 tbsp.
  • Eggs - 1 pc.
  • Salt - a pinch
  • Sugar - 3 tablespoons
  • Melted butter - 2 tablespoons
  • Soda - 0.5 tsp

  Step-by-step preparation of openwork pancakes with whey:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar and salt.
  2. Add whey and baking soda to them. You do not need to extinguish soda with vinegar, because it will be "extinguished" by the serum.
  3. Pour flour into the dough and stir to avoid lumps.
  4. Pour the finished dough into a hot pan creating a beautiful pattern.
  5. To make them delicate, ornate and patterned, pour the dough into a 1.5 liter plastic bottle. Screw it up with a stopper and shake it quickly so that there are no lumps. Make a thin hole in the lid with a diameter of about 3-5 mm, through which pour the dough, drawing along the bottom of the pan.

  Pancakes with baked milk

  

  Baked milk will give a more delicate taste and amazing aroma. Any filling can be used as a bake: boiled eggs, chopped onions, slices of fruits and apples, strips of sausage, ham or mushrooms.

  Ingredients:

  • Baked milk - 2 tbsp.
  • Flour - 1 tbsp.
  • Eggs - 1 pc.
  • Salt - a pinch
  • Sugar - 2 tablespoons
  • Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
  • Apples, apricots, strawberries or others - for baking

  Step-by-step cooking of pancakes in baked milk with a bake:

  1. Combine eggs with salt and sugar.
  2. Pour baked milk into them and stir.
  3. Add flour and knead the dough again until it is lump-free.
  4. Pour in vegetable oil and mix well.
  5. Cut the selected baking product into thin slices.
  6. Bake pancakes in a preheated skillet.
  7. They are baked as follows. Pour less dough into the pan than usual to prevent the pancake from getting too thick. On top of the dough, immediately put the "bake" and pour a small portion of the new dough. Next, fry the pancake as usual.

  Pancake pie or cake

  

  • Pancake cake and pie are best prepared with unleavened or yeast dough. The more magnificent and higher you want to get the cake, the more pancakes you need. On average, 20 pancakes are used per pie.
  • Use any filling for the dish: sweet creams, fruits, jams or unsweetened fried meat, minced meat, mushrooms, etc. All the fillings listed above for stuffing pancakes are suitable.
  • Make the filling thick, because the liquid layer will flow out of the cakes.
  • Ready pie with salty fillings can be browned in the oven for several minutes, and sweet cakes can be soaked in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
  • Also coat the edges of the pie with cream or sauce.
  • The most appropriate height of the pancake cake is 10 cm.

  How beautiful to fold pancakes

  Fishy and plump, stuffed and without filling, dessert and savory, tubes and envelopes, triangles and roses … what kind of pancakes are not prepared. There are just as many ways to present them beautifully.

  1. The most famous and simplest way is to simply fold pancakes. Removing them from the pan, put them in a neat pile on a dish and coat with oil so that they do not stick together.

  

  2. Fold the pancakes in half. This option can be with or without filling.

  

  3. Pancake corners. To do this, fold the pancake three times. It can be without filling, or it can be cleverly stuffed on the outside. So the pancake turns out to be kind of empty, but like with a filling.

  

  4. Roll pancakes. Spread the filling around the edge of the pancake and roll it up.

  

  5. Pancake rolls. Place the filling in the center of the pancake, tuck the left and right edges, and wrap it in a roll.

  

  6. Rolls. Put the filling on the pancake, tuck one edge of the pancake and roll it into a roll, which is cut into portioned rolls.

  

  7. Triangular envelopes. Fold the pancake in four, gently peel back the top edge and fill it with the filling.

  

  8. Pancake triangles. Put the minced meat on the middle of the pancake, tuck the edges to the center, forming a triangle.

  

  9. Nests. Roll the pancakes, roll it in a spiral and lay the filling on top.

  

  10. Pancakes-roses. Roll very thin pancakes into a tube and turn one edge over to the other, forming a rosette.

  

  11. Bags. Place the filling in the center of the pancake, put the edges together and fasten with a green onion feather, a sprig of herbs, suluguni cheese fiber or a toothpick.

  

  Pancakes for Shrovetide

  

  Pancakes are the main ritual food of Pancake Week. Rich people started baking them on Monday, and poor people on Thursday or Friday. Pancakes are associated with Pancake Week.

  • Monday. "The first pancake for peace." Pancakes were placed on the dormer "for parental souls" or given to the poor, so that they remembered the dead.
  • Tuesday. Young people were invited to pancakes, where brides were shown.
  • Wednesday. "To the mother-in-law for pancakes." On this day, the son-in-law came to the mother-in-law for pancakes, which she herself prepared.
  • Thursday. "A wide revelry began." Dressed children go home and sing: "Tryntsy-Bryntsy, bake pancakes!"
  • Friday. Return visit from mother-in-law to son-in-law. On this day, the daughter - the wife of the son-in-law - bakes pancakes.
  • Saturday. "Sister-in-law's gatherings". The husband's sisters - sister-in-law - come to the house.
  • Sunday. "Forgiveness Sunday". Everyone asks for forgiveness from loved ones for everything bad. Also, on the last day of Pancake Week, an effigy of Pancake week is burned, which symbolized the end of winter.

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  Baking pancakes for Maslenitsa is a wonderful tradition that housewives have observed for many centuries. Although outside Shrovetide, they are frequent guests at our tables. Choose your favorite recipes from the collection and bake delicious pancakes! And let the pancakes be tasty and not a single "lump" on the Maslenitsa holiday!

  Video recipes and tips

  1. Shrovetide, cooking pancakes - The best advice "Everything will be good" - Everything will be fine

  

  2. How to cook thin pancakes: master class by Marina Shevchenko - All will be kind. Release 1112 on 10/26/17

  

  3. How to deftly flip pancakes: master class

  

  4.10 ways to wrap pancakes

  

  5. Colored pancakes. How to make pancakes

  

  6. Openwork pancakes

  

  7. Rolls from pancakes.