Every housewife cooked draniki at least once in her life.
Fragrant, crispy vegetable pancakes have long gained popularity. Try adding grated cheese to the dough, and you will see how much more interesting the taste of a traditional dish will be.
Draniki with cheese - the basic principles of cooking
Traditional potato pancakes are cooked. However, there are many recipes for preparing this dish from other vegetables. They are peeled, washed and crushed into large chips. Then the vegetable mass is carefully squeezed, combined with eggs and flour. By the way, you can use wheat flour, but also oat or buckwheat. You can also replace flour with semolina. The dough is seasoned with herbs and salt.
The cheese is triturated, added to the dough and mixed. Cream cheese can be used as a filling.
Draniki with cheese is tender and juicy. The prepared dough is spread in a hot oil with a spoon and fried on both sides to a delicious crust.
Potato pancakes are served with garlic, cheese or tomato sauce.
Recipe 1. Potato pancakes with cheese
Ingredients
potatoes - six tubers;
vegetable oil;
cheese - 100 g;
table salt and spices;
egg;
medium onion;
flour - 100 g;
fresh greens.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potato. Wash it and grate it on a medium grater. Transfer the potato mass to a sieve to stack the juice. Then squeeze and transfer to a bowl.
2. Peeled onion head, rinse and grind. Add the onions to the grated potatoes. Pour the flour and season with spices, salt and chopped herbs.
3. Cheese coarsely and add it to the vegetable mixture. Beat the egg and knead the mass with a spoon until smooth.
4. Spread the potato-cheese mass with a spoon in a pan with hot oil. Fry until the edges are browned. Then turn over the spatula to the other side and continue to fry until golden brown. Put the finished pancakes on a plate covered with a paper towel. Serve with garlic or tomato sauce
Recipe 2. Zucchini pancakes with cheese
Ingredients
four zucchini;
sea salt;
three cloves of garlic;
100 ml of vegetable oil;
egg;
100 g of wheat flour;
200 g of Dutch cheese.
Cooking method
1. Peel the zucchini and grind them on a coarse grater. Add plenty of salt and tilt the squash into a colander. Leave for half an hour to squash the juice.
2. Meanwhile, peel the garlic and grate it on a fine grater. Add the egg to it and beat well with a fork.
3. chop the cheese into large chips.
4. Squash squeeze through a sieve with a spoon. Put squeezed squash into a bowl, add grated cheese, flour and pour in a beaten egg with garlic. Knead thoroughly with a spoon until smooth.
5. Put the pan on a medium heat and heat the vegetable oil in it. Put a squash-cheese mass with a spoon and fry on both sides, four minutes on each. Serve pancakes on a slice of homemade bread.
Recipe 3. Draniki with vegetables and chicken under cheese
Ingredients
six potatoes;
common salt;
75 ml of vegetable oil;
spice;
80 ml of flour;
two tomatoes;
one chicken breast;
100 g of cheese;
small onion;
Bulgarian pepper pod.
Cooking method
1. Peel the potatoes. Wash the vegetable and chop it into large chips. Squeeze the potato mass well and transfer to a deep bowl. Add flour, egg, season with spices and salt. Knead the dough with a spoon until smooth.
2. Spoon the potato mass into a pan with warmed sunflower oil. Fry to a delicious crust on both sides.
3. Chop the onion into cubes. Rinse the chicken fillet, soak it with napkins. Rinse the bell pepper pod, remove the stem and remove the seeds. Chop tomatoes, chicken and peppers in the same way as onions.
4. Fry the onion in preheated oil until clear. Add chicken to it and continue to fry until the meat is covered with a golden crust. Now put the pepper, pepper, salt and fry for another three minutes. Add chopped tomatoes and stew for about five minutes.
5. Draniki lay out tightly to each other on a baking sheet, pre-lubricating it with oil. Spread chicken and vegetables topping. Sprinkle all with cheese shavings and bake for five minutes at a temperature of 200 C. Put the pancakes with a spatula on plates and serve with sauce.
Recipe 4. Draniki with cheese and sausage
Ingredients
600 g of potatoes;
sunflower oil;
100 g of cheese;
a couple of spoons of flour
100 g of cooked sausage;
black pepper;
egg;
salt;
greens - a small bunch.
Cooking method
1. Chop the cheese into large chips.
2. Remove the thin film from the sausage and chop it as finely as possible.
3. Peel and wash the potatoes. Rub it grossly and squeeze it well.
4. Combine the potato mass with cheese and sausage. Beat the egg.
5. Rinse fresh herbs, dry slightly and crush finely. Add it to a bowl of potatoes.
6. Send flour here and season with black pepper and salt. Knead the dough for potato pancakes thoroughly with a spoon until smooth.
7. Heat sunflower oil in a pan. Spread potato dough with a spoon, forming round pancakes. Fry potato pancakes for about three minutes over medium heat. Then turn over and continue to fry for the same amount of time. Serve cheese pancakes with tomato or garlic sauce.
Recipe 5. Draniki with cheese, herbs and ham
Ingredients
bulb;
vegetable oil;
six potatoes;
black pepper;
ham - 200 g;
salt;
200 g of cheese;
flour - 100 g;
eggs - two pcs.;
fresh dill.
Cooking method
1. Peel and wash the potatoes and onions. Free the ham from the film. Grind vegetables and sausages into large chips. Finely chop the dill. Put everything in a deep bowl. Pepper and salt. Beat in eggs, add flour and add grated cheese. Mix thoroughly with a spoon until smooth.
2. Put the mass with a spoon in the heated oil, forming a round cake. Fry on both sides to a delicious crust. Transfer the finished potato pancakes to a napkin-covered plate to get rid of excess fat.
Recipe 6. Rice pancakes with cream cheese
Ingredients
80 g of flour;
a kilogram of potatoes;
sunflower oil;
salt;
blue bow head;
garlic;
a bunch of green onions;
two eggs;
two processed cheeses;
a cup of boiled rice.
Cooking method
1. Wash the peeled potatoes, dry and chop on a fine grater. Do not wring the potato mass!
2. Rinse the rice in several waters and boil, following the recommendations on the package. Throw the boiled rice into a colander and cool. Combine rice with potato mass.
3. Peel the blue onion head. Chop green and blue onions. Add it to the potato-rice mass. Drive eggs here and add flour. Knead the dough with a spoon until smooth.
4. Spread the resulting mass in a pan with hot oil. Put a piece of cream cheese in the middle. Top with another spoonful of potato mass. Fry until golden brown, then turn over and cook for another five minutes. Serve pancakes with cheese, watering sour cream.
Recipe 7. Draniki with cheese and minced meat
Ingredients
one and a half kilograms of potatoes;
sunflower oil;
egg;
baking soda;
200 g sour cream;
a piece of butter;
150 g of flour;
bulb;
salt;
carrot;
black pepper;
half a kilogram of minced meat;
marjoram;
garlic - six cloves.
Cooking method
1. Peel and wash the carrots and onions. Chop the onion into small cubes. Finely grate the carrots.
2. Stuff the minced meat in hot oil, stirring vigorously so that it does not gather into lumps. Then add onions and carrots. Season with salt and pepper. Continue frying for another ten minutes.
3. Peel and grate the potatoes. Add sour cream, egg, soda, garlic and flour squeezed through a press to the potato mass. Season with salt and marjoram. Mix well with a spoon until smooth.
4. Put the pan on the fire, pour in the oil and heat it well. Spoon potato dough into round cakes. Fry potato pancakes on both sides, five minutes on each.
5. Lubricate the heat-resistant mold with a piece of butter. Put ready-made potato pancakes in it, overlapping each other. Spread the fried minced meat with vegetables on top. Pour sour cream and sprinkle generously with grated cheese.
6. Place the potato pancakes in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 200 ° C. Before serving, sprinkle with green onion rings.
Draniki with cheese - tips and tricks
For potato pancakes, take potatoes with a high starch content.
Do not use new potatoes for cooking.
You can add sour cream, kefir, mayonnaise or milk to the dough.
Hard potato grated cheese is added to the potato pulp for potato pancakes, and for the filling you can use processed and soft cream cheese.
