Pancake myth busters: kefir pancakes without...

Delicious, tender and aromatic thin or fluffy pancakes with butter and sour cream, jam, honey, sugar, buckwheat, mushrooms, meat... The dough can be prepared in several ways: traditional (with milk and eggs), with water, with kefir (without eggs), custard And each is interesting in its own way and allows you to get a particularly soft texture, elasticity, and delicacy of the finished dish.

Recipes and step-by-step instructions for preparing pancakes with kefir (custard, eggless, water and others) are in our article.

Description

There are people who believe that pancakes belong to traditional Russian cuisine, since this dish is so deeply associated with Russia and its people. But history says that this is not entirely true.

In fact, pancakes are a traditional food in many countries around the world. And each nationality has its own “signature” recipe (and its derivatives).

For example, the Egyptians, back in ancient times (before the birth of Christ), prepared pancakes from sour dough in the form of thin flat cakes, and now - with yeast. In England, malt flour and ale are added to the dough. And in hot Spain - corn. In Germany, pancakes are served with lemon and sugar. Well, who doesn’t know traditional American pancakes, eaten with maple syrup?

And, of course, Russian pancakes: thin or fluffy, with milk or water, with kefir, with fillings or just with butter. And what Maslenitsa would be complete without this delicacy? Magical housewives bake not just pancakes, but entire pancake compositions (in the form of flowers, fluffy dresses for dolls, and so on) and tall cakes with layers of various sweets (jam, condensed milk).

Currently, according to reviews from guests on healthy eating sites, it has become very popular to cook pancakes without milk and eggs (vegetarian or lean version), but with kefir or kefir and water, as well as custard ones.

This article discusses several such recipes. As well as recommendations regarding preparation.

Holidays

Before trying these pancakes you will have to tinker with them a little, but the result will be amazing. You will get thin pancakes in which you can put the filling. For example, red caviar and then simple pancakes will turn into an original treat.

Compound:

• Kefir – 130 ml;
• Cream – 120 ml;
• Egg – 1 piece;
• Wheat flour – 200 gr;
• Lemon juice – 4 ml;
• Sunflower oil – 10 ml;
• Butter – 50 g;
• Sugar - at your discretion;
• Salt - at your discretion;
• Soda - a pinch.

Preparation:

1. In order to knead the dough, you only need protein. Separate the white and yolk, grind the white with sugar. Place the cream in the dough preparation and mix again;
2. Add soda and lemon juice;
3. Warm up the kefir a little. Let's pour it in. Add flour in small portions. Salt;
4. Mix the dough well. The resulting mass should resemble sour cream.
5. Melt half the butter and add it to the dough. The remaining oil will be needed to coat the finished pancakes;
6. When baking thin pancakes, be sure to oil the pan.

Brewed with kefir

This preparation method allows you to use milk or water as a liquid component instead of kefir. There are also no eggs in the recipe.

Therefore, pancakes will appeal not only to vegetarians, but also to those who lead a healthy lifestyle (including in terms of nutrition).

Description of the preparation process and ingredients:

1. Pour 300 milliliters of kefir (any fat content) into a cooking pan and heat it up.
2. While heating, gradually stir in wheat flour (50 grams) and soda (4 grams) into warm kefir.
3. Remove from heat, add salt (5 grams) and sugar (20 grams), stir.
4. Pour in the rest of the flour (200 grams), stir, remove any lumps (the consistency of the dough is similar to rich sour cream).
5. Add 40 milliliters of vegetable (olive, pumpkin, flaxseed, sunflower) oil.
6. After approximately 10 minutes (this is the time for the dough to set and the wheat gluten to appear), you can start frying the pancakes.
7. Heat a frying pan, grease with 5 milliliters of oil and pour out exactly the amount of dough, the size of the cooking pan itself, as well as the thickness of the workpiece you want to get in the end.

Experienced chefs say that you can come up with any filling for custard pancakes made with kefir without eggs: fruits, berries, honey, vegetables, cereals, beans.

Simple

Compound:

• Kefir - 500 ml;
• Sugar - 35 g;
• Vegetable oil - 35 ml;
• Premium flour – 170 g;
• Eggs – 2 pcs;
• Soda - half a teaspoon;
• Salt is at your discretion.

Preparation:

1. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat well with a whisk, add salt, sugar and soda;
2. Add vegetable oil. We begin to add flour little by little. Pour in half the kefir and grind thoroughly;
3. Add the remaining kefir. The resulting mass needs to sit for at least fifteen minutes;
4. Heat a frying pan, grease it with fat and pour in the first portion of dough. Bring pancakes to readiness.

Thin pancakes

For everyone who loves this flour dish, especially when the preparation itself is tender, melting in the mouth, and extremely thin, there are several ways to obtain such pancakes: adding a little more liquid to the dough or using starch. This recipe follows the first method.

Cooking pancakes without eggs using kefir with boiling water:

1. Pour 400 milliliters of kefir into a container for kneading dough, add salt (5 g), sugar (10 g), soda (5 g), mix with a spoon.
2. Gradually add wheat flour (250 g), stir until there are minimal lumps.
3. Pour 200 milliliters of boiling water into the mixture, stir with a whisk until the lumps are completely dissolved and a homogeneous dough consistency is obtained.
4. Add 40 milliliters of vegetable oil.
5. Preheat the frying pan, grease it, pour in a moderate amount of batter, carefully turn it over to the other side (the pancakes are thin to maintain their integrity).
6. Grease the finished dish with butter and serve.

Experiment No. 1: custard pancakes without eggs

Components:

• Kefir – 400 ml
• Soda – 0.5 tsp.
• Sugar – 1.5 tbsp. l.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp.
• Flour – 250 g
• Boiling water – 200 ml
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l., and ½ pack of butter for greasing pancakes.

Preparation.

In a deep bowl, mix kefir, soda, salt and sugar. Add sifted flour, stir and break up any lumps. Pour boiling water in a thin stream, continuously stirring the brewed dough. Add vegetable oil and stir. Leave the resulting mass for 20-30 minutes. At this time, an exchange of “energies” will occur between the connected products.

Heat the frying pan well, grease with a small amount of vegetable oil, and start baking pancakes. Spread the pancake batter evenly in a thin layer over the surface of the pan. Fry pancakes on both sides.

Result: Pancakes prepared without using eggs are soft, elastic, and their surface is covered with a large number of holes. The taste is delicate and harmonious. There is no soda taste.

With kefir and boiling water

In this recipe, kefir and boiled water (boiling water) are used in equal quantities, which also allows you to prepare beautiful and tasty pancakes.

Process Description and Ingredients:

1. Pour 50 grams of sugar into a mixing container, add soda (5 grams) and salt (5 grams), mix.
2. Pour boiling water (250 milliliters) into the mixture, stirring quickly.
3. Pour in 250 milliliters of kefir at room temperature and stir.
4. Add refined oil (60 milliliters) to the mixture.
5. Pour in wheat flour (200 grams), mix, remove lumps.
6. Pre-heat the frying pan, oil it and start cooking pancakes.

The finished dish (according to reviews from people who have tried this version of the dough) goes well with the following types of fillings: potatoes, mushrooms, jam.

Recipe with highly carbonated mineral water

Another surprisingly simple way to make pancakes without kefir and milk is with eggs and water.

The texture is the most delicate, airy, the workpieces do not stick to the surface of the pan at all.

An excellent opportunity to quickly make a delicious homemade dessert - pancakes with jam, jam, honey.

Process description:

1. Pass wheat flour (150 g) through a sieve into a dough container.
2. Add sugar (10 g) and salt (5 g), beat in 1 chicken egg, mix.
3. Pour warm boiled water (250 milliliters) into the mixture and stir until smooth (the consistency of thick sour cream).

4. Gradually pour in highly carbonated mineral water (250 milliliters), stir quickly (the mixture will be liquid, with bubbles).
5. Pour vegetable oil (50 milliliters) into the dough.
6. Leave the mixture for 20 minutes until it reaches the desired state.
7. Before baking pancakes, it is recommended to grease the inner surface of the pan with vegetable oil and preheat it.

With starch

It is the starch that gives this dish special tenderness. According to this recipe for thin pancakes made with kefir and without eggs, no vegetable oil is added. But the baking process itself takes place in a frying pan greased with butter.

Preparation and ingredients:

1. Pour kefir (1 liter) into a container.
2. Add 20 grams of granulated sugar, 10 grams of salt, 10 grams of soda, 20 grams of starch, mix.
3. Pass wheat flour (450 grams) through a sieve and add to the remaining ingredients.
4. Using a blender, beat the mixture well.
5. Let sit for 20 minutes (until the air bubbles disappear).
6. Heat a frying pan, oil it and start cooking pancakes.

Delicious dough for such sweet fillings as boiled or raw condensed milk, poppy seeds with sugar, honey.

Experiment No. 7: and again without eggs and soda

Let's check out another recipe for pancakes without eggs and soda, and this time we don't add yeast.

Components:

• Milk – 400 g
• Salt
• Sugar
• Flour – 250 g
• Vegetable oil, butter.

Mix milk (only one and a half glasses so far) with sugar (to taste) and a pinch of salt. Pour flour into this mixture (in small portions and stirring constantly). You should get a thick dough without lumps. Pour the rest of the milk into the dough and mix again. This trick will make the dough pleasantly elastic.

Bake as usual, in a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil, evenly distributing the dough in a thin layer. The prepared pancakes must be greased with butter, since they were prepared without eggs.

Result: the experiment was a success again. Despite the fact that the pancakes are not custard, and when preparing them we omitted two important components, we managed to achieve a pleasant taste, golden color and delicate consistency.

Sweet fluffy pancakes

According to recipes using kefir and without eggs, you can prepare not only thin, but also fluffy pancakes. This texture can be achieved by adding kefir and baking powder to the dough.

Description of the preparation process and ingredients:

1. Pour salt (5 grams) and sugar (50 grams) into the dough bowl.
2. Add 0.5 liters of full-fat kefir (3.2%) and vegetable oil (20 milliliters), mix.
3. Pass 200 grams of wheat flour through a sieve and add to the ingredients.
4. Add baking powder (5 grams).
5. Beat the mixture thoroughly with a whisk until air bubbles appear.
6. Fry pancakes in a preheated and oiled frying pan (at the beginning of the process the temperature should be high, and then it should be lowered so that the dough is baked inside).

Such fluffy and tasty fried dough, according to gourmets, is perfect for eating without fillings. Or you can add jam, sour cream, cream, berries.

Fragrant

Cognac gives pancakes additional aroma and taste.
A recipe that includes cognac helps thin pancakes become much more appetizing and flavorful. This yummy dish will decorate any table.

Compound:

• Kefir – 1 l;
• Eggs – 2 pcs;
• Wheat flour – 550 gr;
• Cognac – 125 ml;
• Vanillin – 3 g;
• Soda, sugar, soda - at your discretion.

Preparation:

1. Add eggs, salt and sugar to preheated kefir. Knead the dough, bringing it to a homogeneous consistency;
2. Combine with vanilla and soda. Add the flour little by little, remembering to stir. The result will be “thick sour cream.” If you have any lumps, remove them with a whisk;
3. At the end, add cognac to the dough and start baking. You can make pancakes with a twist. To give pancakes an extraordinary taste, simply add spices. For example, cinnamon;
4. Fry until done.

Cooking recommendations

In general, there is nothing special in the appearance of the dough for pancakes with kefir and without eggs; rather, it looks like what is prepared with milk and eggs.

But to make Lenten recipe dishes especially tasty, some recommendations from professionals will help:

1. When the composition contains boiling water, then in order to avoid its negative impact on the other components (not to “cook” them), it is important to pour in a thin stream and quickly stir the mixture.
2. When the consistency of the dough is more liquid, the finished dish turns out thin and has many holes that give the pancakes a delicacy.
3. After kneading the dough, it is important to let it sit for 15-30 minutes so that the gluten of the flour manifests itself in its entirety, and the finished dish will then be more elastic.
4. The dough with kefir and without eggs can be prepared in advance, for example in the evening, and fry the pancakes in the morning. It is recommended to store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Summary

Homemade thin and fluffy pancakes according to recipes - with kefir, without eggs, with water, custard, with eggs, and so on - are always a great opportunity to diversify the home menu, as well as surprise family and friends (according to reviews of housewives).

The presence of different cooking options for this dish in the culinary collection allows you to always quickly bake a tasty, tender, aromatic and satisfying delicacy or snack.

Also, the recipes will help all fasting and vegetarians pamper themselves with tasty and healthy food (pancakes with kefir, without eggs, with water).