If you prefer quick-to-cook food, you should learn how to bake egg pancakes. They are not only a delicious snack option, but also an excellent alternative to their counterparts with milk or the well-known scrambled eggs. It is noted that such pancakes are excellent for people who do not tolerate lactose. Externally, pancakes are thin “omelettes” into which the filling is placed. They are prepared quickly, any ingredients can be used for filling, depending on taste preferences. The recipe for egg pancakes is considered the basis of many salads and rolls, which we learned to cook from the inhabitants of the East. The dish is so easy to prepare and at the same time delicious that it is quickly gaining popularity.
How to choose the right chicken eggs
This is the main ingredient that we cannot do without, so it is important to know by what criteria this product is chosen. The larger the egg, the heavier it should be; if you come across a large but light product, it means it is already stale.
It is believed that it is better to give preference to medium-sized eggs, they contain more useful substances; the larger they are, the more water they contain and the less useful substances. Appearance is also important: a fresh product should be matte, minor contamination is allowed, because if you wash it, the shelf life will sharply decrease. If there are eggs with glossy shells on the counter, they have already begun to spoil.
Egg pancakes: how to cook them?
Egg pancakes are essentially like an omelette, but they are fried thin. They are used to prepare various dishes, for example, salads, sandwiches, or decorated in the form of a snack cake, where the filling can be cottage cheese.
These pancakes can also be sprinkled with cinnamon or cocoa added to the dough, then you get an excellent sweet breakfast with an unusual color. These pancakes are also easy and simple to prepare. Both adults and children love them. In addition, such pancakes are quite healthy and low-calorie, because there is absolutely no flour in their recipe.
When preparing these pancakes, you need to add one tablespoon of water per egg. The ingredients are very simple, they are available in every home, so this dish can be prepared spontaneously if you have guests or just want something tasty and homemade.
To make egg pancakes you need the following ingredients:
- three eggs;
- three tablespoons of water;
- a little salt;
- vegetable oil for greasing the pan.
The process for making egg pancakes is given below:
Beat the eggs, water and salt well to form a liquid and homogeneous mass. You can use a whisk or mixer for these purposes.
Heat the frying pan over medium heat, do not heat it too much. Grease the pan with sunflower oil before frying each pancake. so that they turn over well. Pour the egg mixture into the pan in a thin layer. Pancakes are fried on both sides. You just need to flip the pancakes instantly, because they cook very quickly.
It is worth noting that you can make an excellent snack with these pancakes if you wrap boiled finely chopped chicken fillet and grated hard cheese inside. Wrap the filling in the middle of the pancake. and you will get an appetizing roll, which must be cut into portions before serving.
We invite you to prepare an alternative to regular pancakes – egg pancakes. This dish is prepared very quickly and easily, perfect for breakfast.
How to cook egg pancakes?
- eggs – 5 pcs.;
- water – 5 tbsp. spoon;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil for greasing the pan.
Mix the eggs with water and salt and mix well with a whisk. To prepare egg pancakes, it is better to use a small frying pan. Heat it, grease it with vegetable oil and pour about 2 tbsp into it. spoons of beaten egg mixture. Turn the pan so that the entire surface is covered with the mixture.
First fry on one side, when the edges of the pancake begin to dry out a little, turn over and fry on the other side.
Egg pancakes for salad recipe. Cooking process:
I beat 2 eggs into a bowl. Take a deep bowl so that it is convenient to beat the mixture with a whisk. You don't need a mixer. The most common whisk. Everything is whipped well and a smooth, homogeneous mass is obtained.
Add salt to taste. Ground black pepper optional. But you can do without it.
Add a tablespoon of potato starch to the bowl with the eggs.
Also add a tablespoon of mayonnaise. I have 67% mayonnaise. But you can use mayonnaise of any fat content. Sour cream is not suitable, here you need mayonnaise, you can use homemade one.
After adding all the ingredients. This is for one, two, three. It took me a long time, because I took step-by-step photographs for you and tried to describe everything in detail.
Whisk everything together. The result is a homogeneous egg dough.
Now you can fry pancakes. To do this, pour vegetable oil into the frying pan (you must add refined vegetable oil). There is no need to add cream, vegetable is better.
1 tbsp is enough for me. spoons to overcook all the pancakes.
I pour it into the frying pan and distribute it throughout the pan. I fry on one side.
I turn it over with a spatula and fry it on the other side. They turn over perfectly, do not fall apart or tear. The principle of frying pancakes, I hope there will be no problems with this.
To fry too much or not? See for yourself. I don't like it too deep fried as it makes the pancakes dry.
It depends on me. When you get 3 pancakes, when you get 4. It all depends on the size of the eggs. But it is better to use large or medium-sized eggs. Small ones won't fit.
Egg salad pancakes are ready! They can be used not only for salads, but also for rolls or cheese snacks (served on skewers or toothpicks).
This is how I crush my egg salad pancakes.
This is an interesting ingredient for a salad. Let the pancakes cool and then use them for wraps or salads.
How to make egg pancakes with ham and cheese?
- eggs – 5 pcs.;
- mayonnaise – 5 teaspoons;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil for frying.
This amount of ingredients will make 5-6 pancakes. You can take the amount of products you need, but follow the proportions: for 1 egg use 1 teaspoon of mayonnaise.
Beat the eggs with mayonnaise, salt to taste and fry the egg pancakes in a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil. Prepare the filling: cut the ham into cubes, grate the cheese, combine with the ham, add squeezed garlic, chopped herbs and mayonnaise, mix everything well. Spread the pancakes with the resulting filling and roll them up. Egg spring rolls are ready.
How to cook stuffed egg pancakes?
- eggs – 4 pcs.;
- chicken fillet – 150 g;
- ginger root – 30 g;
- leek – 1 pc.;
- soy sauce;
- balsamic vinegar.
Beat the eggs with a whisk adding a pinch of salt. Fry the egg pancakes in a frying pan on both sides. For the filling, it is advisable to cut the chicken fillet into slices in advance and marinate in soy sauce. Then we drain it, and fry the fillet in a frying pan and cut into strips.
Immediately after the chicken, in the same frying pan, fry the chopped or grated ginger root and onion leaves. Cut the white part of the leek into strips and sprinkle with a little balsamic vinegar. Combine all filling ingredients and mix.
Place a little filling on each pancake and roll it into a tube, tying it with an onion feather. That's all cooking - stuffed egg pancakes are ready to serve.
Egg pancake rolls
- processed cheese (paste-like) – 300 g;
- lightly salted salmon – 150 g;
- cucumber – 1 pc.
Mix the eggs with water, flour and starch, add a pinch of salt and fry the pancakes.
By adding potato starch they are thin but elastic. This is exactly what we need. Now we prepare the filling, for which we finely cut the salmon into cubes and cut the cucumber into thin strips. Grease each pancake with melted cheese, put a little fish and cucumber on the edge and roll it up. Place in the refrigerator for a short time. Before serving, use a sharp knife to cut each pancake into 4-5 pieces.
Egg pancakes can be prepared with any filling. Boiled meat mixed with fried onions and chicken with mushrooms are perfect for it. We told you how to make egg pancakes, and then it’s up to you – use your imagination and create. You will definitely end up with a delicious dish.
Obzhorka salad with egg pancakes. Preparing the Components
Initially, you need to boil the chicken, remove it from the broth and let it cool. Usually I cook more chicken, use the best part for salad, and the rest and broth serve as the basis for making soup or buckwheat.
After we set the chicken to cook, let's start with the onions. It needs to be cut into thin half rings (I even have quarters) and marinated. To do this, fill it with water, add a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of acetic acid. Mix and leave for hours.
Cutting the onion
Leave to marinate in water and vinegar
Now let's move on to cooking the eggs. There are two options. The first one is for lazy people like me)) We just boil them and cut them. And the second is to make pancakes out of eggs. Despite the fact that the ingredient is the same, the method of preparation radically changes its taste. Egg pancakes undoubtedly win in taste, but they will take more time to cook. I wrote about how to make such pancakes here. By the way, you can also add finely chopped dill to them, it will be incredibly tasty.
Let the eggs boil
Or make egg pancakes
Next in line are carrots. I always do without it, but it is listed in the recipe, so I need to say a few words about it. So, if you decide to add carrots, then you first need to cut them into strips and sauté. You can add Korean carrots, then you don’t have to pickle the onions; the salad will already have enough sourness.
Regular pancake recipe
5 pieces of chicken eggs; from two to three tbsp. l. olive oil; red pepper literally on the tip of a knife; a pinch of black pepper and salt to the taste of the owner or hostess.
In order to make delicious pancakes, will I take enough ingredients? which I described above.
What do we have to do:
- I will start with 5 eggs, which must be thoroughly beaten in a bowl either with a fork or a whisk (if available, with a blender). For best results, it is best to use chilled in the refrigerator.
- Then I add red and black peppers, which will give the pancakes not only a special taste, but also a hue. I stir. Speaking of spices: if you wish, you can also try it with ground any herbs and garlic.
- Heat a frying pan with a spoonful of olive oil over medium heat.
- Using a ladle, carefully pour the mixture of eggs and spices in parts.
- The thickness of each baked product should not be large.
The egg pancakes are ready, enjoy your meal and enjoy your tea!
Thin egg pancakes
You will need:
- five chicken eggs;
- black and red pepper to taste;
- salt to taste;
- ghee for frying.
Step-by-step instruction:
- For thin pancakes you need to take five chilled eggs.
- In a suitable bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk. Add spices, salt.
- As spices, you can add not only pepper, but also herbs, onions or garlic.
- Heat a frying pan, melt the butter.
- Next, pour some pancake batter into the pan.
- Fry on each side until beautifully golden brown.
- Thin pancakes are ready.
“Multifunctional” egg tender pancakes
If anyone knew, then I’ll just repeat myself, and if not, it will be very informative.
The fact is that making pancakes is as easy as making an omelette, because in addition to the need for a sufficient number of eggs, they are also similar in the baking algorithm itself.
In addition, you can make delicious pancakes not only for a simple tea party, but also add their chopped pieces to many dishes: in salads, you can make mini-cakes, sandwiches, snacks (just wrap cheese with finely chopped boiled chicken fillet in a pancake) - all this extremely, extremely satisfying, tasty and healthy.
Low calorie content due to the complete absence of flour and a huge selection of fillings for the tastes of all ages (from cottage cheese to cocoa) are undoubtedly included in the list of advantages of this treat.
A small list of everything you need:
3 pieces of chicken eggs; 3 tbsp. l. ordinary water; amount of salt to taste; vegetable oil (needed to grease the pan).
Egg pancakes recipe:
- I beat water, salt, all the eggs in one bowl until a homogeneous mixture is formed. A fork, a whisk or a mixer can come to the rescue.
- I preheat an oiled frying pan. It is worth considering that you do not need to do this for a long time, in no case to the point of incandescence.
- Using a ladle, I pour a thin layer of the resulting mixture - these are our future egg pancakes that melt in your mouth. Since each side must be cooked, I turn them over quite quickly, because cooking one pancake actually takes almost moments.
That's it, your favorite egg pancakes are ready! Feel free to welcome invited guests for a cup of tea, bon appetit!
Delicious stuffed egg pancakes
4 pieces of chicken eggs; 150 grams of fresh chicken fillet; 30 grams of ginger root; 1 leek; soy sauce and balsamic vinegar; a pinch of salt to taste.
How to cook:
- I beat the eggs in a bowl with a whisk/fork/mixer until smooth, sprinkle in a little salt and fry in a frying pan coated with butter.
- Slightly dry edges of the pancake will serve as a signal that one side is completely cooked; you should turn it over and fry on the other side.
- The egg soft pancakes are ready though! You can serve it this way, but there is still a whole filling ahead.
Now it's time for the chicken filling:
- In advance, I carefully cut the fillet into plates and marinate for some time in soy sauce.
- I drain the sauce and thoroughly fry the chicken in a frying pan, and finally cut it into strips.
- In the same frying pan, following the fillet, I fry the grated ginger root and onion leaves; I cut the white component of the second product into strips, and dip the strips just a little in vinegar.
- I mix everything, absolutely everything.
- The final touch: I wrap a certain amount of filling in each pancake, cut it into pieces and can now be served at the buffet table.
Ingredients
To make a salad with egg pancakes and corn, you will need:
- 500 g chicken fillet.
- 7 pieces of chicken eggs.
- 250 g hard cheese.
- 250 g canned corn.
- One onion.
- Three cucumbers.
- Two spoons of milk.
- Two spoons of mayonnaise.
- Salt to taste.
- Greens to taste.
Recipe for egg pancake salad with ham and cabbage
If you want to pamper your family with some unusual, but at the same time easy-to-prepare dish, then here is an easy recipe for salad with fried egg pancakes, prepared with fresh cabbage and ham.
A quick snack of pancakes will decorate your meal and bring the desired variety to it.
The quantity of products is approximate, be guided by your taste.
- Garlic – ½ -1 clove;
- Ham – 150-200 g;
- Regular cabbage or Chinese salad - 3-4 leaves;
- Mayonnaise - to taste.
How to make egg pancake salad
- We make pancakes at home in a frying pan (according to any of the recipes described above).
- While still warm, roll them into tubes, then cut them thinly.
- Cut the ham into long thin strips.
- We also cut the Chinese lettuce leaves into thin strips. If you use white cabbage, you will need to first chop it thinly and then squeeze it a little.
- Finely chop the garlic and combine it with mayonnaise (preferably homemade).
- At the end, combine all the chopped products, mix and serve the finished salad to the table.
Salads made from egg pancakes look very beautiful and appetizing on the table; with the recipe, their preparation will be very simple for you. And another salad with egg pancakes.
Add your own variety to a salad with egg pancakes, surprise them with an unusual combination and original flavor notes. May Maslenitsa be tasty and satisfying, and may the pancake recipes you wrote down in your cookbook bring you joy and culinary pleasure in the form of aromatic, delicious pastries more than once throughout the year.
Egg pancakes with flour for salad
Egg pancakes for salad, the recipe for which is published later in the article, are prepared without starch. Instead, regular wheat flour is added to the recipe.
What ingredients will you need?
For the dish you need to take:
- raw eggs – 2 pcs.;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
- vegetable oil – 1 tsp;
- salt and spices.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process includes several stages:
- The contents of all raw eggs specified in the recipe should be poured into a small bowl. They are lightly whisked.
- Then all the flour is added to the egg mixture. It is advisable to pour it through a sieve to prevent lumps from forming.
- All that remains is to add oil, salt and spices.
- After thorough mixing, the mixture is poured into a well-heated frying pan. You need to fry the pancake on both sides until cooked.
The finished flatbread is rolled up and cut into thin strips.
Salad example
Egg pancakes with milk are the perfect complement to any chicken salads. Especially the classic version of boiled poultry with mayonnaise and garlic. You can also add them to snacks with chicken/pork ham and fresh vegetables.
