Pancakes - thin baked or fried products of round form from liquid dough - a traditional dish in culinary cultures of many peoples. The practice of preparing pancakes was formed from pre-literate times, carried a ritual-sacral character, it is associated with solar-lunar cyclical phenomena and calendar cults.
Usually in the preparation of dough for pancakes use wheat, and also, barley, buckwheat and oat flour or their mixtures. Pancakes are cooked on yeast and bezdozhzhevye. The test composition can include eggs and liquid dairy products: milk, kefir, yoghurt and the like.
Dough for pancakes is sometimes made on the basis of beer, we will tell you how you can cook it. A well-known foamy drink gives the products a special flavor and aroma. As the beer is aerated, pancakes are blistered or even with holes, of course, if the dough is slightly whipped.
Thin pancakes on beer and milk - recipe
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour or a mixture of flour of various cereals - 1 measure;
- milk - 1 measure;
- beer light or dark, preferably fresh live - 1 measure;
- eggs of chicken - 1-2 per 1 cup of flour;
- salt - 2 pinches per 1 cup of flour;
- soda - 1 pinch per 1 cup of flour.
- spices milled - at discretion;
- a piece of lard or butter (melted butter or vegetable).
Preparation
Mix in a bowl of milk, beer, eggs, salt, soda, spices and sifted flour. Spices are selected depending on the planned fillings and, in general, on what to serve with pancakes - sweet cousin, vanilla, saffron, red hot pepper, the rest - to unsweetened foods.
You should get enough liquid dough, just like kefir. Lightly beat it with a whisk to enrich the microparticles of the gas leaving the beer.
We heat the frying pan (it is better if it is a special pancake pan). Fire is best reduced to medium-low.
Lubricate the bottom of the frying pan, nibble a piece of fat on a fork or butter with a silicone brush.
Pour a portion of the dough into a frying pan, evenly spreading over the surface. After 1-4 minutes (depending on the density of the dough and the strength of the fire), turn the pancake to the other side. We shoot minutes in 2-3 and put it on a dish (we'll think it turned out not a lump). In the same way, bake the remaining pancakes and add them stacked one on the other.
To the pancakes you can serve cottage cheese, sour cream, honey, jams, various thick sauces, lightly salted caviar, fried minced meat with onions and / or others. Usually pancakes with unsweetened filling are served, vodka, strong wine, berry tinctures and liqueurs, in the dessert version - fresh tea or compote, you can have cocoa or coffee.
Spicy pancakes on beer and yogurt - recipe
Sesame oil, soy sauce and lemon juice will give pancakes special flavor and aroma shades that will remind you pan-Asian cuisine.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour or a mixture of flour of various cereals - 1 glass;
- kefir - 200 ml;
- beer light or dark, preferably live fresh - 200 ml;
- eggs of chicken - 2;
- soy sauce - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- sesame oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- soda - 1 pinch;
- spices ground (ginger coriander, cumin, fennel) - at discretion;
- a piece of lard or butter (melted butter or vegetable).
Preparation
Mix in a bowl of beer, kefir, eggs, soy sauce, soda, lemon juice, sesame oil and spices. Add the sifted flour and mix the dough with a mixer. If it turned out densely - we will add more beer.
We warm the frying pan well and lubricate it with lard or butter. Fry pancakes with a coup. We serve with spicy sauces , with fish, meat, mushroom and vegetable fillings and / or snacks.