Pancakes on kefir: how to cook the famous American pancakes?

Pancakes on kefir are a popular American dessert, which is very similar to Russian pancakes. The difference between Russian and foreign products is only that the consistency of the dough of the overseas dish is more lush and dense. It is this property that makes ready punkcakes on kefir soft and gentle.

So, let's find out how delicious, fragrant and satisfying American pancakes are made.

Lush punkcakes: recipe

On kefir, the dough is kneaded more often. Bake such products can be in a frying pan and in such a modern kitchen device as a multivarker. Today, we will only consider the first option, since not all the mistresses have purchased the said device.

To make soft and delicious pancakes on kefir, you need to prepare the following components:

• Olive oil refined - 2 large spoons;
• Wheat flour sifted - 1 full glass;
• Chicken egg, large - 1 pc .;
• Kefir dense fresh (4% fat content) - 200 ml;
• Soda canteen (to extinguish vinegar not necessarily) - 1 dessert spoon;
• Salt is small - a small pinch;
• Sand sugar - 2 large spoons (add to taste);
• Sunflower oil refined - for roasting products (approximately 4-6 large spoons);
• Butter - 120-150 g (for lubrication of finished products).

The process of mixing the dough

Before you cook pancakes in a pan, you should knead a thick and fluffy dough. To do this, pour fatty yogurt into a metal container and warm it up a little (to a warm state). Further in sour milk drink it is required to pour in table soda and well it to mix up to occurrence of foam (an attribute of extinction). After that, in the same bowl, one should alternately lay a beaten chicken egg, refined olive oil, granulated sugar and table salt. At the very end, a sufficient amount of wheat flour should be poured into the liquid milk. And after that, the dough should become more dense and viscous. For uniformity and elimination of excess lumps, the base can be left at room temperature for 30-45 minutes.

Roasting products

How to cook pancakes in a pan? To do this, it is required to heat the sauté pan, pour in it a little refined sunflower oil and wait until a light smoke comes from it. Next, use a large spoon to scoop a thick dough and put it in hot dishes. Depending on the size of the frying pan at the same time, you can bake 4-5 pancakes. After their upper side is a little dry, and the bottom is browned, the products should be turned with a spatula and fried in exactly the same way.

When all the pancakes on kefir are ready, they should be smeared with fresh butter and put them on a flat dish.

Correct submission of American dessert to the table

Ready pancakes on kefir base is preferably presented to the table in a warm or hot state. Also to such tasty and satisfying dessert it is recommended to serve sweet tea, thick sour cream, honey, jam or condensed milk. But such a serving of food is more common for Russians, as in America punkcakes are presented together with maple syrup, peanut butter or fresh berries.

Another way of making kefir pancakes

The recipe for American pancakes quite often includes a component such as cocoa powder. It should be added to the dough in the amount of 2-3 large spoons along with sugar, salt and other ingredients. It is worth mentioning that such a base should have the same consistency, but only a dark brown color with a pronounced aroma of cocoa. Bake chocolate pancakes in a pan is similar to the above recipe. However, it is recommended to serve them with a glaze or coffee drink. In America, this dessert is particularly welcome to children, because they are not indifferent to chocolate and other sweets.

Step-by-step recipe of American punkcakes with cottage cheese and yogurt

Few people know, but such a dessert has many options for cooking. After all, in an effort to achieve a better taste and appearance, experienced chefs add more ingredients to the pancake dough more and more often. So, pancakes on the basis of kefir and fine-grained cottage cheese use especial popularity in America. It is worth noting that such a dessert is much more lavish and softer than using only a liquid fermented milk product.

To make it more clear how to properly do American punkeys on yogurt and cottage cheese, we decided to bring to your attention its detailed method of preparation.

So, to create such a dessert, we need:

• Cottage cheese fine-grained non-acidic - 250 g;
• Egg of chicken of usual size - 1 piece;
• Kefir of any fat content - 250 ml;
• Wheat flour sifted - 5 large spoons (add to the density of the base);
• Soda canteen (do not quench) - 1/3 dessert spoon;
• Sugar - 2.5 large spoons (add to taste);
• Salt iodized fine - add to taste;
• Greens of parsley, dill and onions - add to the dough if desired (for a variant without sugar).

Preparation of the basis

In order to knead the dough with curd and yogurt for pancakes, there is nothing complicated, because such a procedure is very easy and fast. To do this, the sour-milk drink should be slightly heated, and then it is good to extinguish the table soda in it. Next to kefir, it is required to lay out fine-grained cottage cheese, chicken egg, sugar and iodized salt. All the ingredients must be thoroughly mixed with a fork so that in the end you get a homogeneous and fairly liquid mass with the visible grains of the curd product. In conclusion, the basis should be poured in wheat flour and knead the dough to the consistency of thick and fatty sour cream. If desired, in such pancakes you can add fresh chopped herbs (parsley, dill and leek). But in this case, spreading sugar in the dough is not recommended. So you do not get dessert, but a kind of snack that you can use with tomato sauce or mayonnaise mixed with garlic.

Heat treatment of products

After mixing a thick dough with kefir and cottage cheese, you can immediately begin to fry the pancakes directly. To do this, it is necessary to heat up the frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil, and then lay out 3-5 items using a large spoon. Cooking sweet or salted (with greens) pancakes on the plate should be exactly the same as in previous recipes. And grease the saucepan is recommended only before the first pancake. In the future, ready-made pancakes should be sprinkled with hot butter already. This will make them more succulent and tasty, and also will add an appetizing gloss.

How correctly to present sweet pankakes to the table?

Ready-made American dessert must be poured on a flat saucer, pour maple or some other syrup, honey or condensed milk, and decorate with blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. Serve these American pancakes guests should be in hot condition, along with strong sweet tea, coffee or cocoa. As for salted pancakes with herbs, they must be presented to a table with tomato sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise or sour cream. Bon Appetit!