Contents:
- Tradition, history, little secrets
- The most interesting recipes
- Stuffing, gravy, salad
- The customs of the peoples of the world
Pancakes - Followers of traditional Russian cuisine. The custom of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday has come to us since pagan times when people worshiped the gods and as a gift brought a variety of offerings. One of such offerings and serve the pancakes, which symbolized the sun. This dish does not leave anyone indifferent, it is loved both adults and children.
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Tradition, history, little secrets
In Russia, the process of cooking pancakes are always treated with respect and considered sacred sacrament. There is a belief, the more you eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, the richer and more prosperous will the entire year. To get the correct pancakes, you need to know the little tricks preparation technology. Usually Russian Lenten pancakes prepared using only buckwheat flour or buckwheat flour is added. The basis of the recipe is the yeast dough in the lean sponge. Such tests require a certain time - about 2-3 hours.
The warm water breed yeast, add the sugar, a small amount of flour. You should get the batter, which is set in a warm place for fermentation. When this mass increase in volume, add the remaining flour, salt, sunflower oil or olive oil and give the dough a little rest.
Modern housewives prefer not to waste time on such a long process, so instead of yeast in lean dough add soda, slaked with vinegar or lemon. Since the pancakes we have to be lean in the recipe should be no eggs and milk. In lean dough should not be lumps, all you need to mix thoroughly. Meatless baked pancakes in the oven or in a pan of cast iron is better, but not on Teflon.
Clean the pan - the key to successful cooking pancakes.
Flour have to be screened: do it in order to satisfy the flour with oxygen and get a gentle, airy dough.
From the amount of salt and sugar depends on the quality of the pancakes: to overdo if they will be pale, and from the excess sugar will become too hard.
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The most interesting recipes
There are 2 main recipe cooking lean dough for pancakes. Opara yeast and unleavened recipe with the addition of soda. In lean dough is allowed to add eggs and milk, so ordinary milk can be replaced with soy, coconut milk and sesame.
Lean yeast dough
Ingredients:
- 150 g of buckwheat flour,
- 150 g wheat flour
- 500 ml of water,
- 3 tbsp. spoonful of sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- 40 g of sunflower oil,
- 10 g of dry yeast.
As a rule, the proportion of liquid and flour make 2 cups flour 3 cups of water. First, flour, water, sugar and yeast are preparing a brew. In half of the flour enter the sugar, mix yeast with warm water, put in a warm place for 1-2 hours. When the dough is suitable, add the remaining flour, knead thoroughly, introduce oil, give a little stand.
On a clean, well-heated frying pan bake thin pancakes. Pancakes can be prepared for the future and keep in the refrigerator before serving warm.
Lean dough without yeast
Ingredients:
- 250 g flour
- 500 ml of water,
- 40 g of sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- a pinch of baking soda,
- 10 g of lemon juice,
- 30 grams of vegetable oil.
Putting water, salt, sugar, add to the flour, mix thoroughly, introducing soda, pre-assembled with the lemon juice.
Meatless pancakes on mineral water
Pancakes on the basis of mineral water, a more tender and tastier.
Ingredients:
- 500 ml of mineral water,
- 200 g of flour, 20 g of sugar,
- a pinch of salt,
- 35 grams of vegetable oil.
Combine the flour, salt, sugar, diluted with water, introduce oil.
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Stuffing, gravy, salad
The classic recipe in lean dough may add different refueling. They give pancakes certain flavors. It may be green, green onion, dill, onions. Chives just cut, fry onions until golden brown and fray through a strainer. The dough for sweet pancakes lean well to add vanilla or vanilla sugar. For meatless pancakes allowed filling of the products mainly vegetable origin.
Savory meatless filling for pancakes: mushrooms sauteed with onions, rice or buckwheat with sauce, braised cabbage, mashed potatoes. For sweet fillings use: jam, jam, honey, nuts, raisins, fresh and baked fruits, dried apricots, prunes, dates, figs. Sauces are prepared based on the syrup of fruit juice, in which sugar is added and evaporated to liquid honey. Incredibly tasty and fragrant gravy is obtained on the basis of citrus juice (orange, tangerine) with the addition of peel.
Topping - a thick specialized watering based on fruit, berries or milk. Ready toppings can be purchased at the store. There are many different species that perfectly complement and decorate cooked delicacy.
Meatless pancakes with mushroom stuffing
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of flour,
- 1 kg of mushrooms (or other fresh mushrooms)
- 350 g onions,
- 10 g of dry yeast,
- 45 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt,
- 500 ml of water,
- 80 grams of vegetable oil.
Cooking lean dough on sourdough. Mushrooms fried with onions, seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. In the ready pancakes Put the mushroom stuffing, wrap envelope.
The original pancake cake
For this recipe, bake good meatless stack of pancakes.
To take the cream:
- 500 ml of coconut milk,
- 100 g almonds,
- 100 g of sugar,
- 50 grams of vegetable oil,
- 45 g of cocoa,
- 5 g vanillin
- 2-3 small banana.
Milk warms on low heat, add the chopped almonds, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Add sliced bananas, cocoa, butter, vanilla, whisk blender until thick. Every damn generous smear cream, folding each other, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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The customs of the peoples of the world
Eat pancakes worldwide. Every nation has its own national recipes and eating pancakes. In America, where pancakes are prepared much more than we do, they are made thicker and smaller, they are called Pancake. Bake on a dry frying pan without oil, are more like our cakes. Be sure to pour maple syrup. Europeans prefer thin pancakes stuffed with folded in the form of small rolls. The British have come up with recipes included in the test ales and malt flour. Mexicans have pancakes called a tortilla made of corn flour stuffed with beans or meat and dressed with tomato sauce.
In Chinese cuisine in recipes necessarily present boiled rice, rice flour. Thais conquer his many tourists with its Banana Pancake of rice flour, served with bananas, chocolate and ice cream. The most exquisite delicate thin French pancakes - crepes. Very popular among crepes flambe pancakes. The dough is made on the standard recipe. The highlight is the gravy, which consists of peeled orange slices, butter, sugar, brandy or rum. Served with a scoop of ice cream.
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