Draniki with meat - 5 recipes

Draniki, potato pancakes, sorcerers (potato pancakes stuffed with) - the national dish of Belarus. Traditionally, it is prepared from Belarusian potatoes, which have a large amount of starch, due to which lush pancakes with meat are especially tasty. Having a high calorie content, this dish is served on the table on its own, and can also be supplemented with sour cream, butter, mushroom sauce, light vegetable salad or sauerkraut.

Tricks of cooking delicious pancakes

Each housewife makes adjustments to the potato pancakes with meat, taking into account the taste characteristics of the family. For example, some women boil potatoes in advance until half-cooked, which significantly reduces the time of frying potato pancakes, and the finished dish is more tender.

Secrets of experienced housewives:

• When choosing a potato, it is worth paying attention to mature strong tubers having a rough skin and a yellow center. Such potatoes positively affect the taste of ready-made potato pancakes and helps maintain the shape of the product when frying;
• Most often, the tubers are rubbed on a fine grater, but so that the mass has better adhesion and does not crawl when frying, some of the potatoes are rubbed with large chips;
• Adding a small amount of oil to the potato mass will give the potato pancakes a porous consistency;
• The starch obtained when sludge is squeezed from a potato liquid, you can replace the flour, which is part of the recipes, then the dish will be more tender and juicy;
• Since potato pancakes are supposed to be fried in a large amount of oil, after cooking they are laid out on a paper towel to remove excess fat.

Potato pancakes with meat: a classic Belarusian recipe

Structure:

• 700 g potato tubers
• onion head
• 2 chicken eggs
• 2 tbsp wheat flour
• 200 g minced meat
• salt and pepper
• rast.cooking oil

Step by step cooking:

1. Favorite minced meat is salted and pepper, then finely chopped onion is added, it is well mixed until a homogeneous consistency.
   

   1-2 tablespoons of milk or cream added to the minced meat will make it more juicy.

2. The peeled tubers are rubbed on a fine grater (the degree of grinding can be changed depending on taste). The resulting mass is squeezed, then eggs, salt, flour are added to it and everything is thoroughly mixed. A tablespoon of sour cream or grated onions will not allow the potatoes to darken and acquire a bluish color.
3. For frying, it is better to use a cast-iron pan with a thick bottom, in which vegetable oil is poured with a layer of 4 mm. The pan is placed on a strong fire for heating.
4. The potato mass is laid out on a hot pan and slightly leveled.
5. The meat filling is placed on the browned cakes, leveled with a fork so that the edges of the potatoes remain free.
6. A serving of potatoes is laid out on top of the meat, "sealing" the meat inside the potato mass.
7. Sorcerers, fried over high heat from two sides until golden brown, are covered with a lid and brought to readiness.

A similar recipe:potato wizards with minced meat

Potato pancakes with meat

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• kg of potatoes
• 0.5 kg pork belly
• 2 chicken eggs
• 5 tbsp flour
• salt and spices
• large onion
• 100 g sour cream
• vegetable oil

Cooking

1. The peeled tubers are ground using a grater. Eggs are added to the squeezed mass obtained, 4 tbsp. flour and salt. Everything is well kneaded.
2. Potato cakes are fried in a hot pan. The diameter of potato pancakes should not exceed the diameter of existing pots.
3. The pork belly is cut into small pieces and fried with chopped onions, spices for meat and salt in a pan for a quarter hour.
4. A tablespoon of flour is mixed with sour cream and half a glass of cold water. The resulting dressing is poured into a pan with meat, after which the brisket is stewed for another 3-4 minutes.
5. In dry clean pots, 1 shingle is laid, a small amount of meat with gravy is laid out on top and closed with another 1 potato pancake.
6. Layers of cakes and meat are filled with pots, covered with lids and placed on a baking sheet.
7. The oven is preheated, then the pan with pots is placed in the oven for 15 minutes at 190 приC.

How to cook potato pancakes with chicken?

Read also: zucchini potato pancakes recipe

Structure:

• 2 kg potato tubers
• 700 g chicken breast
• 3 onion heads
• 2 chicken eggs
• 100 g sour cream
• bunch of fresh dill
• tsp dried or fresh garlic
• salt
• 50 g wheat flour
• cooking oil

Cooking

1. The breast is cut into slices and ground together with 2 onion heads into minced meat in a meat grinder or combine.
2. An egg, finely chopped dill and salt are added to the minced meat. Everything is mixed and refrigerated.
3. Peeled potatoes are grated. The selected juice is drained, after which salt, egg, sour cream, garlic and flour are added to the potato shingle. The mass is well kneaded.
4. On a hot pan with vegetable oil, a tablespoon is laid potato shingles and is formed in the form of cakes.
5. When the edges of the pancakes begin to brown, the minced chicken is laid out on top in the form of a flat cutlet.
6. The meat is covered with a new layer of shingles, sealing the chicken between the layers of potatoes.
7. Pancakes are fried over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.
8. The finished dish is served with sour cream, decorated with a sprig of greens.

Oven baked potato pancakes

Structure:

• 800 g potato tubers
• 250 g minced meat
• 150 g hard cheese
• egg
• salt and spices to taste

Cooking

1. Minced meat is salted, seasoned with spices, kneaded and cleaned in the refrigerator.
2. The peeled potatoes are mashed, the selected juice is drained.
3. A 100 g piece of cheese, an egg, salt and black pepper are added to a potato shingle. The mass is well kneaded.
4. While the oven warms up to 200 ° C, the pan is smeared with rust. oil. Half of the potato shingle is laid out on a baking sheet in the form of fritters, on which the minced meat and the second half of the potato mass are laid out.
5. Harvesting potato pancakes is covered with food foil and sent to bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
6. After time, the foil is removed, potato pancakes are sprinkled with grated cheese and put in the oven for another 5 minutes.

A simple recipe for pancakes in Minsk

Structure:

• 800 g of potatoes
• 4 tbsp softened butter
• 4 tbsp vegetable oil
• 400 g pork
• salt and pepper to taste
• 6 garlic cloves

Cooking

1. The meat with garlic is chopped into minced meat, to which salt and pepper are added, everything is mixed until smooth.
2. The peeled potato tubers are grated. The selected juice is drained, salt is added to the shingle and mixed.
3. A frying pan with a thick bottom is heated, vegetable oil is added, on which potato cakes are fried until golden brown.
4. A heat-resistant dish, for example, a ducklings, is greased with butter, then a layer of potato pancakes is laid out in it, a layer of minced meat is laid out on top, which is closed with potato cakes.
5. The dish is baked in the oven at 200 ° C for about half an hour.

Before you cook potato pancakes with meat, try to correctly calculate the yield of the finished dish, as they are served hot. Taste qualities of the cooled products are lost, and they cease to crunch.

Bon Appetit!