Fritters of flour and potatoes. Pancakes from mashed potatoes.

Potatoes - our favorite side dish for many dishes. Its main advantage is its excellent compatibility with all meat and fish dishes and most salads. However, if you are already fed up with traditional mashed potatoes and fried potatoes, discover an old and extremely tasty dish - potato fritters. They are made easy, although time, of course, will take more than ordinary dishes from this vegetable.

Cooking methods

Note that, unlike the usual mashed potatoes, this dish is characterized by a variety of tastes that differ greatly from one another, since potato pancakes can be prepared using several technologies. The taste, respectively, will also be different. At the base of one of them is a ready-made mashed potatoes, at the base of the other is raw potatoes. If you like soft pancakes, choose the first method, if you prefer crisp, crunchy - the second will suit you best. By the way, pancakes made according to the second recipe are often called pancakes. So, consider both options in more detail.

The easiest and fastest recipe

The easiest way to make pancakes from mashed potatoes. It’s still quite difficult to rub raw potatoes. And so - half a kilo is boiled tubers in uniforms, which are peeled off after cooling. Moreover, peeling potatoes before cooking is not recommended: it loses some of the starch, and the pancakes will fall apart or stick. It is mashed (with salt and pepper, of course), it must be very steep, so neither water nor milk is added. If desired, you can finely chop the onion, fry in vegetable oil and add to the potatoes. Then an egg is driven into this mass, two spoons of flour are added, and it is mixed again. It will remain puree spoon and fry until browning. If you need fast pancakes from mashed potatoes, the recipe changes somewhat: a pair of starch spoons is put in place of the egg. The rest of the preparation is the same.

If you want to crunch

Love the crunchy - make pancakes, they are from raw potatoes. For them, two large, well-washed potatoes rubbed on a grater. Most often it is advised to take a large, but more uniform and tender potato pancakes are obtained if you use a medium grater. The resulting mass should be well washed in a colander, then squeeze. Not too large onions should be finely chopped or rubbed (if you do not mind a little cry). Onions are added to the potato mass, an egg is driven in there, 4 tablespoons of flour are poured, and everything is kneaded until homogeneous. Oil is poured into the hot pan generously, in which the pancakes are fried. The final touch: get ready "pancakes", dry them, salt and pepper, and on the table. Eat them hot. Additionally served sour cream and herbs.

Potato plus Zucchini

If you are just fed up with potatoes, it is worth remembering that it is wonderfully combined with many other vegetables. Of course, not all of them are suitable for the creation of the studied "flat cakes", but that's just potato squash fritters will be perfect. 300-500 g of zucchini and one egg will go to a kilo of potatoes. Vegetables are peeled and rubbed: small potatoes, and zucchini - on a medium grater. Ingredients need to be mixed, put into a colander and wait for a little while the excess juice flows. When the mixture becomes less “wet”, add salt, selected seasonings and egg. Mix and begin to fry potato-squash fritters. There are no wisdoms in the process: they are prepared like ordinary pancakes from dough. True, there is one nuance. What is remarkable such potato pancakes? The recipe does not involve the use of flour. No need to enter it! Otherwise, your dish will become dry, and the flour flavor will overshadow the taste of the vegetables themselves.

Alternative method

He suggests the opposite ratio of zucchini and potatoes: a pound of the first will require a quarter of a second pound. We can say that there are squash-potato pancakes. The recipe is extremely simple. Yes, you will need 2 more eggs (for the mentioned amount of vegetables), 3 tablespoons of flour and parsley. For such a dish, potatoes are peeled and cooked, and washed squash are dried and coarsely rubbed. When the tubers cool, they need to scroll through a meat grinder and mix with the grated zucchini. Chopped greens, salt, eggs, flour are added there and the whole mass is kneaded. The final step will be the actual roasting pancakes.

Potato and Feta Cheese

Potato pancakes with cheese can be made using both its soft and hard varieties. Let's start with the first. A pound of boiled potatoes is taken straight into the skin (such potato pancakes are made from mashed potatoes), cleaned and warmed up or rubbed on a larger scale. 120 g of soft cheese (feta gives a special flavor to the finished dish, so we’ll stop on it) carefully rub it. Half a cup of flour, almost a full teaspoon of the usual baking powder, salt, egg and a quarter cup of milk are mixed - one makes “dough”. Ground pepper, chopped green onions and parsley (cilantro as an option) and crushed garlic clove are also added there. Everything is brought to homogeneity, after which cheese and potatoes are introduced. When you achieve a uniform distribution of products, you can proceed to roasting.

Potatoes and hard cheese

Potato pancakes with cheese can be cooked differently. To do this, take 100 g of cheese (choose solid varieties, you can even quite inexpensive) and a kilogram of potatoes. Grate both ingredients (raw potatoes!) And mix. We also send sliced ​​onion (small), 4 tablespoons of flour and 2 eggs, mix everything well, and delicious oladki are fried from the resulting mass.

Potatoes and Mushrooms

Squashes and cheese are not all products that can be added to potato pancakes. Very good main ingredient is combined with mushrooms. One of the cooking options offers to make a very tasty dish with canned champignons. The main thing is that they do not contain vinegar - and you get just great pancakes from mashed potatoes. The recipe proposes to take only 150 g of mushrooms for 4 large tubers. They, along with the onion, should be chopped and roasted. Meanwhile, boiled potatoes rub, combine with champignons, egg, grated hard cheese, spices (which you wish to take) and a tablespoon of flour. After mixing - the standard actions: fry the "tortillas" on both sides. If you do not like too oily potato pancakes, remove excess fat with paper napkins.

Same plus bacon

Another recipe with mushrooms, but with others. For the preparation of delicious treats, we need white dried ones - they are enough for a dozen grams per 600 g of potatoes. Plus - for a special taste - about 200 grams of smoked thick bacon (can be replaced with brisket). First you have to boil the potatoes. Moreover, if you are going to cook just such potato pancakes, the recipe advises you to do this for no more than five minutes. Then the tubers are rubbed or passed through a meat grinder. Mushrooms, meanwhile, are filled with boiling water for 10 minutes. When they are ready, drain and grind. Bacon is fried without adding oil. During the heat treatment, fat is released. So, it should be left in the pot, and put the pieces in a separate saucer. Puree combine with mushrooms, parsley, thyme (take to taste), four eggs and bacon. It remains to fry separately pancakes in vegetable oil. Please note that in the end you will have to dry the end product with napkins, since making potato pancakes with this recipe is crispy, otherwise it will not work.

Stuffed "Tortillas"

It is not necessary to make pure vegetable fritters. The so-called pancakes (or their puree alternative) may well be a full main course. It is enough to bake potato pancakes with minced meat. The composition of the traditional dish is simply complemented by a carrot and a quarter of a kilogram of minced meat (at the rate of somewhere grams per 600 potatoes). Vegetables are rubbed, onions too (or we run it through a meat grinder). After the excess juice has been drained, flour (not more than three spoons), a pair of eggs, spices and salt are introduced into the mass. The process further resembles the baking of cheesecakes. Spread out on a heated pan a spoon of mashed potatoes, on top - half the amount of minced meat. It would be nice to press down the whole structure with a spoon so that it becomes a single whole. Then the pan is covered with a lid. Some hostesses also turn the resulting potato pancakes with minced meat, but this is not necessary. Especially if in the process of baking, sprinkle them with grated cheese on top.

Meatwind Pancakes

Minced meat is the easiest and quickest prepared meat. However, it is not necessary to crush the original product. You can make potato pancakes with meat, just finely chopped. Moreover, if you want to speed up the process, you can grind it. The cooking process is the same as in the previous recipe, the ratio of ingredients is the same, only the carrot must be removed. The difference lies in the fact that the pancakes are put in a roasting pan or duck, the ground meat (well, minced), salted, peppered and flavored with crushed garlic is lovingly laid out on top, and all this stuff is put in a well heated oven for at least 20 minutes.

What does it all give

First of all - with sour cream. Whatever additional ingredients include potato pancakes, they all harmonize perfectly with sour cream. The next version of the filling of the final product - cream sauce. It also goes well with any additives to potatoes and does not contradict the taste sensations from the same zucchini, cheese or mushrooms. Soy sauce should be used with some caution. However, his lovers even dunk bread in it, so that it is quite suitable for potato pancakes. Good mayonnaise. But supporters of ketchup will have to choose it very meticulously - not everybody “will have to go to court”.

What to do so that the potatoes do not darken

It remains to deal with the question of the smallest loss of vitamins and the greatest preservation of taste. It's no secret that fresh potatoes, after spending a very short time on air without water, begin to darken. Accordingly, fritters from it turn out at best grayish. Therefore, if you do not make mashed potato pancakes from fresh vegetables, this can be a serious problem. People have come up with several ways to deal with this regrettable process. The oldest and most trusted of them is to grate the onion first, and only after the potatoes. And immediately mix!

The next, modern, option is to use a blender. The process goes so fast that the potatoes simply do not have time to change the natural color. Especially if at the same time with the potatoes lay in the apparatus onions.

And the third way, with which far from everyone agrees, is to pour a spoonful of hot milk into the mass during cooking. They say that potato pancakes not only will not lose their natural color, but also become more lush and ruddy.

And if you do not want to achieve the ideal in the preparation of pancakes from raw potatoes - use any of the pancake recipes made from mashed potatoes. Anyone can cook it!

Ingredients for making mashed potato pancakes:

1. Large Potatoes  5 items
2. Medium carrots  1 piece
3. Medium Bulb Onion  1 piece
4. Fresh champignons  100g
5. Cheese hard 100 grams
6. 1 egg chicken
7. Wheat flour 1/2 cup
8. Salt 1 tsp
9. Vegetable oil  5 tablespoons

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Tablespoon, teaspoon, cooker, wooden spatula, serving dish, medium saucepan with lid, vegetable cutter, mashed potatoes, frying pan - 2 pieces, medium grater, plate - 4 pieces, medium bowl, skimmer, food wrap, small bowl

Cooking potato pancakes from mashed potatoes:

Step 1: prepare the potatoes.

Using a vegetable cutter, peel the potatoes and then rinse thoroughly under running warm water. We spread the tubers on a cutting board and cut into medium pieces.
Shredded components are moved to a medium saucepan and pour the usual cold liquid from the tap so that it completely covers the vegetables. We put the container on a large fire and cover with a lid. Attention:  when water boils, foam forms on its surface. Be sure to remove it with a slotted spoon and throw it into the sink. Boil the potatoes for 30 minutes  until ready. Then turn off the burner and, holding the pan with the lid slightly ajar using kitchen tacks, pour the liquid into the sink.

Chop pieces of potatoes with mashed potatoes to a state of mashed potatoes, and for the time being we leave aside. Let the mass cool to room temperature.

Step 2: prepare the champignons.

We thoroughly wash the champignons under running warm water, shake off excess liquid and place on a chopping board. If necessary, with the help of a knife, we remove spoiled places on the caps and legs. Then chop the mushrooms into pieces and pour into a clean plate.

Step 3: prepare the carrots.

Using a vegetable cutter, peel the carrots and then rinse thoroughly under running water. We spread the vegetable on a cutting board and rub with a medium grater until the state of chips. The ground component is poured into a free plate.

Step 4: prepare onions.

Using a knife, clean the onions from the husk and rinse thoroughly under running warm water. Next, lay out the component on a cutting board and finely chop into cubes. Pour the chopped onion into a clean plate and leave it aside for a while.

Step 5: prepare hard cheese.

On a medium grater, grind hard cheese right on the cutting board. Then pour the chips into a free plate and wrap with cling film so that the component will not be weathered until we finish with the preparation of the filling for the dish.

Step 6: prepare the filling for the dish.

Pour into the pan 3 tablespoons  vegetable oil and set on medium heat. When the contents in the tank is well heated, lay out the chopped carrots and onions. From time to time, stirring with a wooden spatula, fry the ingredients until pale golden.

Immediately after that, add crushed champignons to the container and continue to prepare the filling. Attention:  do not forget to sometimes stir tools with improvised so that the components are not burnt. When everything is ready, turn off the hotplate, and pour the contents of the pan into a small bowl and set aside for a while. Let it cool to a warm state.

At the end, pour the grated hard cheese here and mix everything thoroughly with a tablespoon until smooth. That's it, the filling is ready!

Step 7: Cooking potato pancakes

In the cooled mashed potatoes add egg, salt and flour. At the same time, in parallel everything is vigorously stirred with a tablespoon until a homogeneous mass is formed without lumps.

Pour the remaining vegetable oil into the pan and set on medium heat. When it warms up well, put it in a container of one full tablespoon of potato dough. Top with a teaspoon gently place the stuffing. And so that it does not fall to the bottom of the pan, immediately close it with a small amount of dough. Fry the pancakes with one side until golden brown, then turn the wooden spatula over to the other side and cook for the same amount of minutes. To secure the shape of the dish, we lean the patties on the walls of the pan and fry on all sides from the side (along the seam). We put the finished pancakes into a special plate for serving, and instead of them we place the next batch in the pan. Cook everything until the potato dough with the filling is finished. At the end, turn off the burner and start serving the dining table.

Step 8: Serve mashed potato pancakes.

Ready, still hot pancakes are served to the dinner table as a main course along with sour cream. What they are tasty and nourishing! Help yourself!
Good appetite!

Before serving, the pancakes can be sprinkled with finely chopped parsley;

The dish can be prepared with any filling or without it at all. For example, I often replace mushrooms with fried minced meat or boiled eggs with dill;

Draniki can be formed with wet hands (so that the dough does not stick), but only after putting in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil.

Pancakes and potato pancakes are among those dishes that should be served hot. When they cool, stand in the refrigerator, they are not so tasty.

Recipe number 1. Potato pancakes made from uncooked potatoes

Ingredients:  medium sized potatoes - 5 pcs., onions - 2 pcs., egg - 1 pcs., breadcrumbs - 5 tables. spoons, vegetable oil for frying, salt and black pepper to taste.

I provided this first recipe with step-by-step photos. By the way, if potatoes are cooked for fritters in uniforms, it retains most of the vitamins, including vitamin C.

1. Wash the potatoes and boil in uniforms until tender.
2. Onions clean, chop and fry until cooked, until golden brown in hot vegetable oil.
3. Boiled potatoes, when cool, peel and grate.
4. Add to the potatoes fried onions, 1 raw egg, salt and pepper the mixture to taste.
5. To form balls from the mixture with wet hands, roll each in breadcrumbs, and, flattening, to get a flat cutlet, fry in vegetable oil until cooked - until golden brown on both sides.
6. Serve with sour cream and greens. Serve very tasty with mushrooms and onions, stewed in sour cream, and make this mushroom sauce  thinner. Here is the prescription

Recipe number 2. Potato Pancakes - Raw Potato Pancakes

Ingredients:   potatoes - 600 grams., onions - 2 pcs., egg - 1 pcs., flour - 2 tablespoons, vegetable oil for frying, salt and black pepper to taste.

This is a classic recipe for potato fritters made from raw potatoes. It needs to be grated, but, undoubtedly, it is more convenient and faster to chop the potatoes for fritters on a food processor.

2. Add flour and egg to the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.
3. Preheat the pan with vegetable oil.
4. A tablespoon spread pancakes in the pan in the form of small round pancakes. Fry on both sides until golden brown, turning the spatula over.
5. Serve hot with sour cream.

Recipe number 3. Potato pancakes with minced meat

Ingredients:   potatoes - 600 grams., minced meat (chicken, turkey or pork and beef) - 350 grams, onions - 1 piece, egg - 1 piece, flour - 4 tablespoons, chopped parsley - 3 tablespoons, garlic - 2 slices. Vegetable oil for frying, salt and black pepper to taste.

This is very delicious recipe  potato pancakes made from raw potatoes mixed with minced meat. I once found this recipe in a culinary weekly, the recipe was called "Potato pancakes - my husband will be pleased." Cooked many times.

1. Grate potatoes with onions and grate them.
2. Mix together all the ingredients: minced meat, grated potatoes and onions, egg, flour, herbs, garlic, passed through a press, salt to taste and add black ground pepper.
3. Pancakes fritters with a spoon on a red-hot frying pan and fry until ready.
4. You can add a little more flour and then form the pancakes with your hands, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry on hot vegetable oil from both sides until cooked.

Recipe number 4. Potato pancakes with celery and carrots (vegetable)

Ingredients:   potatoes - 300 grams., celery - 200 grams, carrots - 100 grams, egg - 1 pc., flour - 2 tablespoons. Vegetable oil for frying, salt and black pepper to taste.

This is a delicious recipe for vegetable potato fritters.

1. Peel carrots, grate and fry in a frying pan until soft.
2. Grate celery and raw potatoes.
3. Mix roasted carrots with potatoes and celery, add flour and egg, salt and pepper.
4. Mix a tablespoon in the pan and fry on both sides until cooked.
5. Serve with sour cream

Recipe number 5. Rice Potato Pancakes

Ingredients:   potatoes - 300 grams., boiled rice - 1 cup, egg - 3 pcs., finely chopped green onions - 4 tables. spoons, finely chopped parsley - 2 table. spoons, garlic - 2 slices, sweet paprika - 0.5 teaspoons. Vegetable (olive) oil for frying, salt to taste.

This is also a great recipe. These fritters with mushroom cream sauce  will be even tastier.

1. Heat olive oil in a large frying pan, pour boiled rice, finely grated raw potatoes, chopped green onions and garlic, boiled through a press fry over high heat, stirring for about 3 minutes, into a heated frying pan.
2. Place the contents of the pan into a small bowl. Add the chopped parsley, beaten eggs, paprika, salt and pepper, mix well.
3. Heat the clean pan with olive oil again. Spread fritters in a pan with a tablespoon and fry until golden brown on both sides until cooked.
4. Serve hot. Excess fat from the pancakes can be removed by putting them on a paper towel.

All recipe pictures

Draniki are absolutely any. They can be made from pumpkin, apple, meat, carrots and zucchini. But the most popular are potato pancakes.

After all, this vegetable can be purchased at any time of the year without much difficulty. From it you can cook a variety of dishes, but pancakes are considered the most delicious. Pancakes are tender and fragrant. You can vary the recipe of cooking with other ingredients.

When cooking potatoes can darken, so that this does not happen, you must add grated onions to the mixture. Fry the pancakes should be under the lid closed, so that they are thoroughly baked.

There is a very simple recipe for making potato pancakes. Otherwise, they are also called pancakes. The result will be a simple, but at the same time delicious dish. The method of cooking pancakes with minced potatoes is known in many countries. Cooking pancakes is not difficult.

Ingredients

• 4 potatoes;
• bulb;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• half a cup of flour;
• vegetable oil;
• salt;
• pepper.

Cooking

Mashed Pudding Recipe

It happens that you cook mashed potatoes, eat something, but something remains, and not there is not here. Now you can easily fry mashed potato pancakes. Draniki can be cooked just from the remaining puree.

Ingredients

• 455 grams of mashed potatoes;
• egg;
• 3 tbsp. l flour;
• favorite spices.

Cooking

Cooked Potato Pancake Recipe

Fritters can be cooked not only from fresh vegetables, but also from boiled ones. You can quickly and easily cook a tasty dish for the whole family. Boiled potato fritters will scatter at a tremendous rate.

Ingredients

• 5 potatoes;
• egg;
• 1.5 Art. l starch;
• salt;
• milk;
• butter;
• a piece of bacon.

Cooking

Recipe for pancakes made from potatoes and zucchini

Taste fritters can be improved by combining potatoes with zucchini. This dish is tender, tasty and inexpensive.

Preparing potato squash fritters is easy, and most importantly, quickly.

Ingredients

• 500 grams of zucchini;
• 500 grams of potatoes;
• a pair of eggs;
• vegetable oil;
• salt;
• pepper.

Cooking

Recipe for potato and cheese pancakes

You can make very tasty and tender potato pancakes with cheese. A delicious dish will fly away from the table with great speed. The recipe of cooking is based on the classic method only with the addition of cheese.

Ingredients

• 500 grams of potatoes;
• 110 grams of cheese;
• egg;
• 255 ml of milk;
• half a cup of flour;
• spring onions;
• garlic clove;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Potato pancakes with cheese are ready!

There is a huge variety of cooking pancakes. But the most popular are potato pancakes. They are tender and tasty. Moreover, the pancakes can be cooked with minced meat, with the addition of carrots and other ingredients. Many prefer to cook potato pancakes with cheese. Even children love this dish. Experiment and cook something new and unusual, diversifying your diet.

About potatoes, we can say that it is the second bread, well, and bread, as you know, is a head of everything. Indeed, eating potato dishes, you always feel full and in good spirits. You can make such a wonderful dish from potatoes, like mouth-watering potato pancakes, it will turn out delicious and even very satisfying. Moreover, preparing them is so easy and simple that such a procedure will not even cause fatigue. So, pleasant chores.

Especially useful will be a dish of potatoes during the fast days, during the period when there is no desire to mess with meat products and cook something complicated. I can safely say that potato pancakes are quite an economical dish, and very tasty and healthy. We already know that there are a lot of important vitamins and microelements in potatoes, which our body needs. So we will not deny yourself the pleasure

We will spend quite a bit of time preparing this dish. Not even need any skill. All you need is to knead the potato dough, make the desired pancakes from it and fry them until golden brown in a pan. Prepare everything you need in advance that we need during their preparation.

We will need the following products:

• potatoes - 1 kg;
• flour - about 60-70 g;
• salt - to your taste;
• eggs - 1-2 pieces;
• onion - 1 pc;
• lean oil - 50-60 g (for toasting).

What we need from dishes and other kitchen items:

• bowl for mixing "dough";
• wooden plank;
• pan;
• cooking vane;
• mortar or potato mash.

The knife is useful to us for turning the pancakes toasted on one side to the other side. You can, of course, do without him, but with him it is somehow more convenient. Well, I am so sure. As for the boards, the hosts in the kitchen should have at least three of them: for, for vegetables, and for making dough (for the same pancakes, dumplings, or).

In fact, these pancakes can be cooked without onions. Some cooks do this, considering this recipe to be a classic. But personally, I like it better with a bow. Also in some cases do not put flour. But still, in my opinion, the dish is better with flour.

How to cook

The first rule is to prepare all the products. Let them be with us so that we do not run after them (someone in the cellar, someone in the fridge).

It is best to cook pancakes from mashed potatoes, cooked on the basis of potatoes, boiled in the uniform. Do not be embarrassed that it is easier to warm up if it is cooked without a skin. Nothing, we have a mortar. But such a potato will allow us to fry excellent pancakes, which will not disintegrate. Boil potatoes in their uniforms, remove the peel from it.

Carefully mash boiled and peeled potatoes until you get a homogeneous mass. Our pancakes from mashed potatoes should be excellent, so it’s important to try to cook everything well.

Peel the onions, wash, finely chop and mash.

Pour a couple of eggs into mashed potatoes.

Now it's time to pour out the flour and mix everything. It is not necessary to pour too much of it, the pancakes should not be “downtrodden”, that is, very hard.

We pinch lumps from the dough, roll the balls, flatten them and get a semi-finished product of the future dish.

Pour the butter into a hot frying pan and fry first one side of the pancakes, then the other. Here we need a knife with a spatula.

Well, if you have sour cream in the fridge or

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