Everything you need to know to make perfect pancakes

Classic pancakes with milk

Ingredients:

• 200 g - flour
• 500 ml - milk
• 2 tbsp. - vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp. - sugar
• 2 pcs. - eggs
• 2 tsp - baking powder
• salt

Preparation:

1. Making dough for pancakes. First, beat the eggs with salt and sugar.
2. Add vegetable oil to the eggs and mix.
3. Next, add milk and mix again.
4. Then add flour and soda and mix everything well with a whisk or using a mixer.
5. Now let's bake pancakes. Heat a frying pan and grease it a little with oil. Pour the dough into the middle of the pan, tilt it in a circle, distributing the dough evenly. Turn the pancake over when the bottom of the pancake turns golden.
6. On the second side, fry the pancake for just a few seconds, then remove it from the pan.

Yeast pancakes with holes

Delicious lacy airy pancakes. We recommend you try it, you won't regret it.

Ingredients:

• 300 g - flour
• 300 ml - milk
• 3 pcs. - eggs
• 100 ml - vegetable oil
• 60 g - sugar
• 7 g - dry instant yeast
• 1 tsp - salt

Cooking time:
2 hours 20 minutes
Number of servings: 8

Calories: 328 kcal per serving

Preparation:

1. First, beat the sugar, eggs and salt well until foam appears.

2. Next, add flour, milk, butter, yeast and a glass of water. Mix everything until smooth, without lumps.

3. Now the pancake dough needs to be put in a warm place for an hour, it will rise approximately twice. Mix the dough and let it rise again, after which we no longer mix, but keep the bubbles inside to make holes.

4. Turn on the stove, wait until the frying pan is well heated and grease it with oil. Carefully pour the dough into the pan and distribute it evenly over the surface of the pan.

5. As soon as the top of the pancake has dried, flip it over and bake the other side.

6. These pancakes are delicious on their own, so absolutely any filling is suitable for them.

Thin pancakes with milk

This recipe is suitable for those who like thin pancakes. Instead of part of the flour, starch is used, so the dough is very liquid, and the baked goodies bake perfectly and are easily removed from the pan. You will learn how to prepare thin pancakes with milk from our step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients:

• 500 ml - milk
• 100 g - flour
• 100 g - corn starch
• 2 pcs. - eggs
• 20 g - sugar
• 1/2 tsp. - salt
• 40 g - butter

Cooking time:
30 minutes
Number of servings: 7

Calories: 212 kcal per serving

Preparation:

1. First, mix eggs, flour, milk and starch in a bowl. For easier stirring, it is better to pour milk in parts.
2. Add butter, sugar and salt to the dough. Stir until smooth. Usually vegetable oil is used, but if you melt the butter, it will turn out much tastier.
3. We should have a flowing, liquid dough. It will need to be stirred constantly while baking so that the starch does not settle to the bottom.
4. Heat the frying pan and set the heat to medium-high. Before the first pancake, lightly grease the pan with oil. Pour some dough into the middle of the pan and distribute it evenly along the bottom, tilting the pan. Stir the dough before scooping the next portion. It is better to choose a frying pan with a thick bottom.
5. After the pancake has dried and there is no batter, turn it over and finish baking on the other side. The second side bakes much faster, be careful. For the first time, you can lift the edge to look at its color.
6. Now put the finished pancakes in a stack.
7. You can serve it to the table in a stack, triangles or tubes. Most often it is served with sour cream, honey, jam or condensed milk.

How to make oatmeal pancakes

This dough recipe in its content and execution is very different from the general series, but the final product is called pancakes, since they are similar to pancakes in appearance and taste. The dish is served with sour cream or specially prepared creamy, spicy or sweet sauces.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 0.5 cups ground oatmeal;
• 3 tablespoons of hard grated cheese;
• 3 tablespoons milk;
• 1 tablespoon butter;
• salt, soda.

Preparation:

Mix all dry products, including cheese, add this mixture to the mashed butter. After stirring, immediately add milk and knead the pancake dough. Roll out the resulting dough into a large thin layer and cut out circles with a diameter of 10-12 cm (the easiest way is to use a convex lid from a saucepan or small frying pan). The pancakes are brushed with beaten yolk and quickly baked in the oven at a temperature of 180-200°C.

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Pancakes with kefir

Easy to prepare and very tasty kefir pancakes. According to this recipe, they will turn out thin, as many people like. When you add starch, the pancakes turn over very well in the pan. You will learn how to prepare classic pancakes with kefir from our step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients:

• 1 l - kefir
• 250 g - wheat flour
• 50 g - sugar (sand)
• 100 g - potato starch
• 200 g - sour cream
• 4 things. - chicken eggs
• 2 g - baking soda
• 1 tsp - salt

Cooking time:
40 minutes
Number of servings: 12

Calories: 228 kcal per serving

Preparation:

1. Let's start making the pancake batter. Add eggs, sugar and salt to kefir. Mix.
2. Mix the sifted flour with starch and add to the bowl with kefir and eggs.
3. Mix the pancake batter thoroughly so that there is no lump left. Then add soda.
4. Add a little vegetable oil to the dough. Thanks to this, the pancakes will be easier to remove and there will be no need to add oil when frying.
5. To make pancakes thin, the dough must be quite liquid. If it turns out too thick, then add kefir to the desired consistency.
6. Now let's bake pancakes. Pour the dough evenly into the frying pan; to do this, take it in one hand, pour the dough into the middle with the other, quickly tilt the frying pan in a circle so that the dough spreads over the surface in an even layer.
7. The color of the dough will tell you when the pancake is baked on one side. If it’s hard to understand this the first time, then you can first time it by practicing on the first pancake. Next, we run a knife or spatula around the edge of the pancake so that it “lags behind” the surface of the pan, turn the pancake over and bake on the other side until golden brown. Remember that the pancake will cook faster on the second side.
8. Fold the pancakes into triangles in four, or serve in a stack. Hot ones taste better!

What to do if pancakes stick?

Experienced cooks advise that to prevent pancakes from sticking, you need to use a special pancake frying pan for cooking.
It’s better if you cook only pancakes on it and nothing but pancakes. By the way, “sour” pancakes, that is, those cooked with yeast, rarely stick. You should start frying in a hot frying pan, and then reduce the heat. A regular frying pan can be treated as follows: drop some vegetable oil on it, heat it up, remove from heat, add salt and rub it over the frying pan with a piece of cloth (by the way, it should not be Teflon). After this, the vessel should be washed.

For pancakes it is better to buy a separate frying pan

What to do if pancakes burn? A very common question that housewives ask. The answer is simple - a lot depends on the frying pan. You should treat it with salt or buy a special pancake pan. Remember that over time, any utensils will wear out.

If the pancakes tear, then you most likely did not maintain the proportions. If we planned thick ones, we added baking powder; thin ones, we added flour.

Buckwheat pancakes

These pancakes are perfect if you want to make a savory filling: cheese, ham, eggs or salted fish. They differ from their wheat counterparts in taste and color. You will learn how to make pancakes from buckwheat flour from our step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients:

• 500 ml - milk
• 125 g - buckwheat flour
• 125 g - wheat flour
• 2 pcs. - chicken eggs
• 50 g - butter
• 30 g - sugar
• 1/2 tsp. - salt

Cooking time:
40 minutes
Number of servings: 6

Calories: 307 kcal per serving

Preparation:

1. First, sift both types of flour into a bowl.
2. Then add milk and mix. To avoid lumps, this must be done as quickly as possible.
3. Add 100 ml of hot water and stir. Next, add eggs, sugar and salt, mix again.
4. Add melted butter to the dough, stir and leave for 30 minutes.
5. Pour the dough into the hot frying pan and tilt it in a circle to fill evenly.
6. We bake the pancakes on both sides until golden-dark in color.

Useful tips

In the kitchen, as in any other place, something can happen that doesn’t fit into the cooking process. There are a lot of reasons for the occurrence of completely ridiculous situations and there is no point in listing them; the main task is to correct your own mistakes in a timely manner.

1. When baking pancakes with kefir, choose kefir with the lowest percentage of fat content, in addition to this, you can additionally dilute it with some water (necessarily boiled and cooled). Such a secret will allow the housewife, including the inexperienced one, to deftly remove hot pancakes from the frying pan;
2. A special pancake frying pan is best suited for baking pancakes; if you have one in the house, you can always bake your favorite dish with pleasure;
3. To increase the gluten content of flour (gluten is indicated as a percentage on each package of product), liquid into the dough (namely water or milk) must be added hot;
4. When baking, the pancakes tear when turned over - the dough does not have enough viscosity (add an egg or a little flour);
5. In order to completely eliminate the appearance of lumps in the dough, you must first dilute the flour in a small amount of water and salt - this will significantly reduce their appearance;
6. Sifting flour when preparing dough will improve the taste of the final product and saturate the flour with oxygen;
7. If you need to speed up the process of preparing pancakes, use the following recommendation: fry them in several pans;
8. To ensure that the first pancake turns out “as it should”, heat the frying pan thoroughly before frying.

Armed with the necessary equipment and following step-by-step recommendations and advice, any woman (even one who does not know how to cook at all) will get very tasty, homemade pancakes. Bon appetit!

Chocolate pancakes

Perhaps this will be the best breakfast option for chocolate lovers. Delicious chocolate pancakes will not leave you indifferent, you will not be able to stop. You will learn how to make homemade chocolate pancakes with milk from our step-by-step recipe with photos.

Ingredients:

• 160 g - wheat flour
• 400 ml - milk
• 150 g - powdered sugar
• 50 g - cocoa powder
• 100 g - creamy cottage cheese 5-9%
• 100 g - raspberries
• 35 g - butter
• 1/2 tsp. - salt

Cooking time:
1 hour
Number of servings: 6

Calories: 380 kcal per serving

Preparation:

1. Sift 1 cup flour and powdered sugar into a bowl.
2. Then add cocoa to the mixture.
3. Mix everything, you get a dry mixture for pancakes.
4. Break the egg, beat a little, add milk, butter and salt. Mix.
5. Now mix together the dry and liquid parts of the chocolate pancake batter.
6. Now we bake thin pancakes.
7. Now let's prepare the sauce for our pancakes. Grind frozen raspberries using a blender, add baby cottage cheese and sugar to your taste.
8. Before serving, decorate the chocolate pancakes according to your imagination. For example, we make mascarpone cream, or use ice cream as a sauce. Or you can make a pancake cake by layering the pancakes with cream.

Which frying pan should you choose?

Tested by our grandmothers and having seen more than one Maslenitsa, a cast iron frying pan is the best option for baking pancakes. It heats up evenly and stays warm for a long time. Its thick bottom helps the dough bake well. Thanks to the porous cast iron surface, a protective oil layer is formed, which prevents the pancakes from sticking to the bottom and burning.

To preserve the beneficial properties of a cast iron frying pan, it is not recommended to wash it, just clean it: pour in sunflower oil and sprinkle in a tablespoon of coarse salt, heat it, and after cooling, wipe it thoroughly with a paper towel or dry cloth. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

A significant disadvantage of a cast iron frying pan is its weight. Modern products with non-stick coating are more practical in this regard. But the main thing is that the edges of the pancake pan are low, the bottom is thick, and the handle is long and comfortable.

Pancake batter

The most common and easiest way to prepare pancake dough.

Ingredients:

• 200 g - flour
• 500 ml - milk
• 2 pcs. - eggs
• 2 tbsp. g - vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp. - sugar
• 1 pinch - salt

Preparation:

1. First, break the eggs and mix in a bowl with salt and sugar.
2. Then add milk and mix.
3. Flour should be added in small portions, stirring constantly. You can use a sieve to avoid lumps. The dough should be liquid.
4. Finally, add the oil and stir well again. The dough is ready.

This is the whole recipe for delicious pancakes. Enjoy your meal!

In a slow cooker

You need to select the “Baking” mode, which is present in almost all modern multicookers. The bottom of the bowl can either be lubricated with oil or not.

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As a rule, all modern bowls are made of non-stick coating, so there will be no problems with pancakes sticking.

While baking pancakes, you should not change any settings on the multicooker; in automatic mode it will maintain the required temperature.