Potato pancakes are prepared primarily from grated potatoes. You can eat them sweet or salty, depending on your preferences. A popular combination is pancakes with sour cream, sugar or various sauces: goulash, mushroom or garlic. Preparing the dish is not complicated or time-consuming, so a novice chef can easily do it.
Recipe for fluffy and crispy potato pancakes. They taste like grandma’s
When making potato pancakes, you need to pay attention to a few things so that the dish turns out tasty, crispy and golden in color. To prepare a delicious dinner you will only need a few ingredients:
- 1 kg of peeled potatoes,
- 1 onion,
- 2 eggs,
- 2 tablespoons of wheat flour,
- Spices: salt, pepper, sugar.
Grate the potatoes on a fine grater and squeeze out excess water. Add flour, finely chopped onion and spices. Mix everything. Optionally, you can also add some chives. Heat the oil in a pan and add a tablespoon of the prepared mixture. Spread it into a thin cake and fry for 2-3 minutes on each side. Place the fried pancakes on a plate lined with a paper towel. You should get at least 20 servings.
Delicious potato pancakes Photo Tomek Czachorowski / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Why do potato pancakes darken? Add a spoon to the mixture and get rid of the problem
As you can see, it’s trivial, but that doesn’t mean that nothing can go wrong. It happens that potato pancakes turn out brown, not golden. All because of the oxidation of the potatoes. They contain polyphenol oxidase, which quickly reacts with oxygen and the vegetables change color. This happens very quickly, so it is difficult to fry all the pancakes before the mixture starts to darken. If you want to slow down this process, add a spoonful of cream to the bowl with the ingredients. Such a small amount will not change the taste and will give the dish the perfect color. In addition, remember to buy potatoes that have a lot of starch. The best choices will be the Bryza, Gracja, Ibis, Tajfun and Gustaw varieties. They do not contain much water and have light colored flesh.
Source: Gazeta
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