Fritters - tasty and nourishing food, perhaps, these qualities made them so popular, and gave rise to a lot of new and sophisticated ways of cooking a famous dish.
Fluffy pancakes on kefir: a step-by-step recipe
Lush beautiful pancakes can be the perfect dessert and addition to tea. There are many variations of cooking this dish. However, they are far from being magnificent. The following is the simplest and most reliable recipe for chubby baking.
For a serving for two people you will need the following number of ingredients:
- 1 chicken egg;
- kefir - 250 ml;
- flour - 300 gr. (about one and a half glasses);
- soda - 3 grams;
- salt half a teaspoon;
- sugar - 2-3 tbsp;
- vegetable oil in the dough - 3 tbsp;
- oil in the pan - 45 ml.
Cooking time: 30-35 minutes.
Tasty pancakes on kefir can be enjoyed in the morning with tea, however, people who are watching their figure, or who are in the process of losing weight, should take into account that the calorie content of the dish will be 165 kcal, without taking into account the flavor additives.
How to cook fluffy pancakes on kefir:
- Before cooking, you need to choose the right dishes. It can be a deep dough bowl and a large frying pan (certainly with a lid). Having decided on the choice, it's time to start cooking. In a bowl, mix the egg with sugar, thoroughly grind and beat;
- Next comes the turn of kefir. The required amount of fermented milk product is poured into a bowl and add soda. In this case, there is no need to extinguish the soda with vinegar, since kefir already contains acid. The contents of the pot gently mix. At this stage, you need to salt the dough;
- Flour is added in 2 doses. Half poured out immediately and stirred for a couple of minutes, then add the remains and stir with a whisk for another 3 minutes. It is important to stir all the lumps. Next, add the required amount of vegetable oil. After mixing, you should get a dough with a homogeneous consistency, slightly resembling condensed milk;
- The final stage of cooking is frying pancakes. On a large frying pan, pour oil in the amount of 20 ml, then wait for 2 minutes until the frying pan is heated. With a large spoon, scoop the dough and pour it onto the hot oil in small portions, approximately 2 cm. Back between the pancakes. All this is covered with a lid and fried for a minute and a half on each side on a moderate fire. Repeat the procedure once or twice, and on the dining table there is an appetizing slide of fluffy pancakes;
- Serve the finished dish with jam, honey, fruit or sour cream. This is delicious.
Recipe for fluffy pancakes on yogurt and yeast
Everyone has long known that with proper use of yeast, the dough rises, and baking turns out lush and big. Adding yeast to the dough for the pancakes is a kind of guarantee for getting delicious and full pancakes.
To make yeast pancakes, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:
- 2 chicken eggs;
- kefir - 500 ml;
- dry yeast - 3 tsp;
- salt - to taste;
- granulated sugar - 3-4 tbsp;
- flour - 2-2.5 glasses;
- cooking oil for frying;
- Vanillin optional.
Preparation takes 1 hour 30 minutes. Based on the number of components, the calorie saturation of such a meal will be from 340 kcal.
The process of cooking does not take much time, but you should follow a few recommendations, especially if you do not often deal with yeast:
- It is necessary to warm up a little kefir. To do this, you can simply put it in a heated place, or use the steam bath. For the latter option, a bowl of kefir is placed on the pan with water. Over low heat, water and kefir slowly begin to heat up;
- While kefir is on the stove, break the eggs into a convenient, deep vessel. They should be knocked down a little with a fork or whisk;
- In warm kefir add sugar, salt and yeast. All this is a little stir. Leave for a few minutes;
- Then in the substance, which turned out, pour the already beaten eggs, and pour the flour. The dough must be very well mixed to break all the lumps. It will be more efficient and faster to use the mixer;
- The dough is not very thick, but not liquid. And then, you need to put it in a warm place and wrap up with a towel. About an hour, it will be suitable. You can spend less time on this process, if you put a bowl of dough in another container with warm water;
- When bubbles appear on the surface of the dough and you can see that it has increased in size, you can begin the process of frying pancakes;
- Pour dough in small portions into a heated pan with butter and a tablespoon. 5-6 pancakes are placed at a time, depending on the size of the pan. Cook 1.5 minutes one side, then turning, fry as the second. They prepare quickly, so you need to make sure that they are not burnt;
- Fragrant, plump pancakes are ready to eat and will delight all the household with its light and pleasant taste.
Fritters on kefir without eggs
For people who are fasting, vegetarians, or simply looking for recipes with minimal complexity, pancakes on kefir are good, but without adding eggs.
Products for making pancakes without eggs are not much different from those in the standard recipe. This time you will need:
- 500 ml. kefir;
- 3-4 tablespoons sugar;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- one and a half or two glasses of flour;
- 3 grams of soda.
Preparation takes 30-35 minutes. This recipe is ideal for people on a diet, as there is only 120 calories in such pancakes.
Mix all ingredients to a thick cream, thoroughly stir all the lumps. At the end add soda.
In a hot frying pan, bake pancakes for 2 minutes on both sides. Fire down as necessary.
Recipe for fluffy pancakes on yogurt with apples
Another way to diversify kefir-based pancakes.
To make delicious pancakes with apples, you will need:
- 1 chicken egg;
- Biokefir - 1 cup (250 ml);
- salt to taste;
- sugar - 3-4 tbsp;
- flour - 1.5-2 cups;
- frying oil - sunflower;
- apples - 2 pcs.
Cooking time: 30-35 minutes. Calorie content of 135 kcal.
In kefir, after giving it a little warm, add an egg, salt and sweeten. Mix thoroughly to dissolve sugar crystals. Next, add flour along with soda and whisk with a whisk. The dough should be slightly thickish.
Peeled apples need to be grated, and add to the dough. Leave it for half an hour, after which you can start to fry pancakes.
Pour the dough in small portions into a heated frying pan with butter, spoon or ladle. Fry for a minute and a half on each side. Fritters come plump, elastic and dietary.
Culinary tips for lovers of lush pancakes
Everyone wants their pancakes turned out to be lush, stay like that later on the table, as well as the next day. The use of yeast will be a win-win option. However, this recipe requires free time, which is not always appropriate.
However, soda and baking powder also raise the dough perfectly, due to the reaction with the acid contained in kefir. There is one subtlety: if the dough is without yeast, then it must be thick enough to achieve the desired curvature.
Flour must be of high quality, it must be sifted several times so that it is saturated with oxygen. Thus, fritters fluff much faster.
The fat content of kefir or yogurt does not play any role, although many cooks note that the higher the acidity of these products, the better the pancakes are suitable.
It is almost impossible to make pancakes of a magnificent form without oil, or with its insufficient amount. If a large amount of oil is embarrassing, you can blot the baking cloth with a napkin. As an option, bake them in the oven.
The dough made on soda rises easily if soda is added at the very beginning, and citric acid dissolved in water at the very end. After that, nothing can be added to the dough, otherwise it may not rise.
You can safely apply and complement these recipes, because in cooking there is always a place for creativity and experimentation.
In the next video - another recipe for fluffy pancakes on kefir.
