Draniki: a recipe for cooking delicious dishes of the national cuisine

One of the most popular dishes of Belarusian cuisine are potato pancakes or pancakes. They are also called deruns. Draniki recipe which was known for a long time, popular in the kitchens of other nations, for example, in Russian, Ukrainian, European and Eastern European.

Served this dish on a table hot with garlic sauce or sour cream. The most important ingredient of potatoes is potatoes. A distinctive feature of pancakes is that the potatoes must be rubbed on a large grater, rather than on a fine grater. And also they can not be cooked from mashed potatoes, because in this case it will turn out to be a completely different dish - bits of potato.

Draniki recipe which is first mentioned in the XIX century, you can cook with flour or without it. For 5-6 potatoes (large), you need to take one medium bulb, one egg and one tablespoon of any sour milk product: sour cream, kefir or curdled milk, a little salt and pepper. On the grater, first you need to rub the onion, and then the raw peeled potatoes. If a lot of juice has formed, then it must be drained. Then you need to quickly add the remaining ingredients, mix and immediately fry in vegetable oil. To taste this dish resembles French fries.

And now a few words about how to cook pancakes recipe which includes flour. To all of the above products, you need only add two spoons of flour. To taste, you can add one clove of garlic, passing it through garlic. Draniki form in the form of cutlets or pancakes and fry until a beautiful golden color on both sides. Serve the dish on the table hot with sour cream. Six portions are obtained from the present amount of ingredients.

Draniki can be cooked with ham, minced meat or grated cheese. This dish, though very tasty, but high-calorie. But you can cook lean dumplings recipe which does not include ingredients such as meat, fish or poultry. For example, you can make pancakes from carrots or zucchini.
Probably not everyone knows that the pancakes from the zucchini recipes of which will be described below are not only tasty, but also useful and are considered a dietary dish. After all zucchini, like the whole family of pumpkin, contains carbohydrates, potassium salts, iron, calcium and magnesium, carotene and many vitamins of group B. It is for these qualities that he was nicknamed a home doctor. Pancakes from courgettes are very delicate and served well with garlic sauce.

The recipe for cooking is simple, you can do not only from young courgettes, but also from large ones. It will take 500 grams of zucchini, 1-2 onions, 3 tablespoons of flour and 1 tablespoon of sunflower or other vegetable oil. Before you grate zucchini on a large grater, you must first remove the skin from them. Onions are rubbed on a fine grater and added to zucchini. Now the mixture needs to be salted and let stand a little, then drain the juice. Then you need to add the rest of the ingredients, mix everything thoroughly and fry in a hot frying pan until golden brown.

To make garlic sauce, you need to take 2 cloves of garlic, pass through the garlic and mix with mayonnaise, which will take 50 grams. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Ready-made sauce to anoint the ready-made pancakes and lay on a flat dish and decorate with sprigs of dill and parsley.

And you can cook potato-squash potatoes which recipe combines the tenderness of potatoes and the utility of zucchini. On three young zucchini you need to take 4 potatoes, 1 onion and 3 large cloves of garlic. Still need to take the greens of parsley, dill, basil and ginger. All ingredients must be crushed and mixed with four spoons of flour and one egg, and then salt and pepper to taste.

You can grate 50 gr of hard cheese and add to the mixture, and you can do it differently. On a hot frying pan spoonful of zucchini mixture, then for each cake steals a slice of sliced tomato, and on it - a piece of cheese. On top of the filling cover with a thin layer of the mixture and fry the pancakes on both sides until a beautiful golden crust appears. It will not just be the draniki, but something more!