Draniki is a favorite dish of grated potatoes. However, not many people know that the taste of traditional food can be changed beyond recognition. In the summer, cook potato pancakes and zucchini - hardly anyone will know what kind of dish it is. A detailed recipe and cooking secrets are in the article.

Potato pancakes: recipe, ingredients

Draniki is considered to be a traditional dish of Belarusian cuisine, although it has become popular in many post-Soviet and European countries.

The official name of the dish is potato pancakes. And the dish was called potato pancakes because of the cooking method: potatoes for it are torn (tinder) on a grater.

There are many recipes for cooking potato pancakes. Everything has changed - from the method of chopping potatoes to the composition of the dish. Now potato pancakes, the recipe of which is easy to remember, are prepared from potatoes and vegetables, with meat filling, cheese, and seasonings. Also fritters not only fry in oil, but also bake in the oven.

If traditional potato pancakes are fed up, diversify their taste with zucchini - you get juicy tender pancakes that melt in your mouth.

The recipe for pancakes is this:

• potatoes - 300 g;
• zucchini - 100 g;
• egg - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 200 g;
• salt, pepper, seasonings - to taste.

This is a basic recipe for potato pancakes with zucchini. Do you want the taste to be more piquant? Add finely chopped garlic or onions to the “dough”. Feel free to use Provencal herbs for the dish - the taste will become brighter. Finely chopped greens will not spoil draniki.

Thinly sliced \u200b\u200bham also goes well with vegetables. But do not overdo it: the main ingredient is still potatoes.

To make potato pancakes golden and tasty, do not fry them from young potatoes: there is a lot of water in it.

If there is no choice, use such potatoes, but after grinding, squeeze the juice and add 1 tbsp to the vegetable. l starch. By the way, starch can replace flour in a traditional recipe.

And if you want lush pancakes, add a little kefir or soda to the dough.

How to cook potato pancakes and zucchini

It would seem that cooking potato pancakes is a couple of trifles. However, many housewives know that with this dish is not so simple.

To potato pancakes were juicy and golden, strictly follow the instructions.

The cooking technology is as follows:

• Preparation of vegetables.

Wash potatoes and zucchini and cut into large pieces. Then grate the vegetables separately, squeeze out the excess juice and only then mix in a large bowl.

• The connection of the components.

Salt and pepper grated vegetables. If you use seasonings, it's time to add them too.

Then beat eggs into the mass and mix gently. When it becomes homogeneous, add flour.

• Consistency check.

It is very important that the dough for potato pancakes and zucchini is not too thick or too thin. The consistency of the mass should resemble a very thick sour cream.

• Roasting.

Draniki should be fried in a well-heated pan in a large amount of oil.

Give the pancakes the desired shape - do it with your hands or use a large wooden spoon.

The thickness of potato pancakes should not be large, otherwise they will remain raw inside.

Put potato pancakes in a pan. Fry over high heat for approximately 3 minutes on each side. Has a golden crust appeared? Flip.

• Innings.

The most enjoyable part of cooking is, of course, serving and tasting the food.

If you want to make potato pancakes less caloric, first put them on a napkin, and only then on a dish.

Serve potato and zucchini pancakes with sour cream, mayonnaise or garlic sauce, adjika. They should be eaten immediately, because after half an hour the dish will not be so tasty and will lose a crisp.

If you want to surprise homemade ones, put out potato pancakes in any sauce, for example, in mushroom sauce: you will get an equally tasty dish.

Potato pancakes, the recipe of which is useful to every housewife, is a dish where there is something to experiment with. Cook several options to find the best option.

And what potato pancakes do you like?

Fragrant, golden pancakes with a crispy crust, tender and juicy inside - the decoration of any table! They can be prepared for a dinner party, for family tea drinking, and even put on a festive table. After all, potato pancakes usually love everything! Meanwhile, each housewife has her own secrets of cooking this seemingly simple and ordinary dish. Potato pancakes from zucchini and potatoes are much more tender and beautiful than their counterparts from one potato.

Cooking time - 30 minutes
  Products are given in 4 servings

Ingredients for zucchini and potato pancakes:

• 1 medium squash
• 3-4 potatoes
• 2-3 tablespoons of kefir
• soda on the tip of a knife
• 1/3 teaspoon of salt
• 3-4 tablespoons of flour
• vegetable oil for frying

How to make potato pancakes from zucchini and potatoes

Wash the potatoes, peel and grate. Take a grater with medium holes so that the potatoes do not turn into slurry. So the finished products will be more crispy and in appearance will look exactly like potato pancakes, and not like squash pancakes.

Remove the peel from the zucchini and remove the seeds. For zucchini pancakes, both very young, tender zucchini, and mature ones with a thick skin are suitable. Rub the zucchini on a fine grater. A homogeneous tender mass should be obtained. Squeeze the grated zucchini with your hands to remove excess juice.

Stir the grated zucchini and potatoes in a deep bowl, drain the excess juice, if any. Add a little kefir and soda to the tip of the knife in a bowl. Thanks to kefir and soda, draniki will turn out more magnificent and beautiful. Beat the egg in a potato-zucchini mass, and then add a little flour. If the dough remains liquid, add a little more flour than in the recipe.
  The dough for potato pancakes should turn out to be quite thick and resemble fat sour cream in consistency.

Put the pan on the fire and pour vegetable oil. Take a zucchini-potato dough with a tablespoon and carefully put in hot oil. Try to put potato pancakes in a pan so that there is enough space between them. Thus, they will not stick together and it will be convenient to turn them on the other side.

Fry the potato pancakes from the zucchini on one side until golden brown, then turn over with a wooden spatula and fry on the other side. Add vegetable oil to the pan as needed. It will take about 5-7 minutes to prepare one serving of potato pancakes.

Put the pancakes on a paper towel or a special lattice so that the glass has excess oil and after a minute put it on the dish. Draniki must be served hot! Do not forget to add sour cream to the pancakes. And some people like to eat them with mayonnaise, honey or even jam. Zucchini-potato pancakes - a versatile and tasty dish with any sauces and additives.

Bon Appetit!

And I enjoy preparing all kinds of dishes with them. This recipe from the category of simple, fast, tasty and satisfying. To taste, these draniki are very similar to the classic ones, but more tender and juicy. This dish will be enjoyed by both children and adults, especially if served with sour cream or sour cream and garlic sauce. You can serve them for breakfast, lunch, and as a light dinner. Serve necessarily hot, then although they will be soft and tender inside, but outside will remain pleasantly crispy. In general, zucchini itself is a rather useful vegetable, which perfectly affects the body as a whole and is very well absorbed, but not everyone loves it, but in such a tricky, but simple way, you can feed some picky ones. Potato pancakes and zucchini are prepared for no more than half an hour, the recipe is simple, which even an inexperienced chef will cope with. It turns out very tasty, I recommend trying and diversifying the daily menu.

Ingredients:

• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• zucchini - 1 kg.
• onion - 1 pc.
• egg - 2 pcs.
• flour - 100 grams.
• greens to taste.
• salt to taste.
• spices to taste.
• vegetable oil - in fact.

• Servings Per Container: 4.

How to cook potato pancakes and zucchini:

Three zucchini on a fine grater and squeeze well from excess moisture. My zucchini is young, so I didn’t take off the skin, but if you use a large zucchini, we get rid of the skin, as well as large seeds.

We take potatoes of medium size, closer to large. We clean it from the peel and also three on a fine grater and squeeze it well.

Onions can be finely chopped with a knife, but for a more delicate taste I recommend grating it on a grater, preferably on a shallow one.

Combine the zucchini, potatoes and onions in a deep bowl. Add eggs, any herbs to taste, salt and spices as desired. You can add chopped garlic for a brighter taste, but I served the finished pancakes with sour cream and garlic sauce to the table, so at this stage I did without it.

Mix the mass and add the flour.

Then again, everything must be mixed.

We put the finished tesla on a hot frying pan with vegetable oil, giving the pancakes the desired shape. Choose the thickness of your choice, as well as the degree of roasting. In my opinion, the thinner the pancakes, the tastier.

Fry on both sides over medium heat.

Serve immediately to the table with sour cream or any sauce of your choice. I served with sour cream and garlic. To do this, add garlic to taste and fresh dill to sour cream.

Potato pancakes and zucchini are very tasty and quite satisfying, quite suitable as an independent dish.

Bon Appetit!!!

Regards, Oksana Shepherd.

Absolutely everyone is familiar with the traditional Belarusian cuisine - potato pancakes. However, there is an alternative option for its preparation, where the potatoes are replaced by zucchini. Potato pancakes are lighter than potato ones. There are several step-by-step recipes for cooking potato pancakes. Be sure to remember them.

How to make zucchini pancakes

For the dish you do not need expensive products or what is difficult to get. The simplest step-by-step recipe, in addition to zucchini, includes several eggs, a little flour, onions, spices. Other vegetables may be added. Before making potato pancakes with zucchini, the main ingredient is triturated. Then it is mixed with other ingredients in a dough of medium density and fried in a pan or in the oven.

Product Preparation

To guarantee a delicious meal, use the following recommendations:

1. Try to choose young zucchini in which there are no formed seeds yet. You can take zucchini. This vegetable has a denser consistency, it gives less juice. Beginners will be easier to cope with zucchini.
2. Be sure to squeeze grated zucchini before cooking, otherwise your dough will be excessively watery. You can use a colander or a sieve for this.
3. To make the dough homogeneous, grate a small portion of zucchini on a fine grater, and the rest on a coarse grater.
4. Calorie potato pancakes cooked in the oven will be significantly lower than fried ones. In addition, they are healthier, perfect for children's menus.
5. If you want the dish to be more satisfying, add potatoes or minced meat to it.
6. The presence of garlic or hot pepper in potato pancakes will add spice to them.
7. If you do not want to use flour, you can thicken the dough with semolina.
8. The dish must be served with sauce. You can cook it on the basis of mayonnaise. The dietary option is best seasoned with low-fat sour cream, low-calorie yogurt. There is insanely delicious pancakes from zucchini with garlic or tomato sauces, tkemali. It is advisable to do them yourself.

Recipes for making zucchini pancakes

There are a lot of dish options. You can make the most healthy dietary potato pancakes in the oven. Those who want something more satisfying will like step-by-step recipes with cheese, meat. Pancakes with zucchini and potatoes are very tasty. Vegetarians and fasting people can cook them without eggs. Each of these dishes is very tasty. Be sure to try to make at least one of them.

Recipe 1 - Oven Dumplings in the Oven

This dish will appeal to those who prefer roasting to roasting. Potato pancakes in the oven are very tender, juicy. Even if you adhere to a strict diet and categorically do not want to look at your own photos, such a treat will still not harm your figure. Try step by step cooking in the oven potato pancakes, and you will see that it is very tasty.

Ingredients:

• zucchini - 1.5 kg;
• nonfat milk - 120 ml;
• onion - 3 heads;
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l .;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 300 g;
• salt, pepper, olive oil.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the zucchini. If they are young, then you can don’t clean before cooking, if not, remove the skin.
2. Rub one or two on a fine grater, the rest on a coarse grater. Put the mass in a colander to drain.
3. Meanwhile, scroll the bulbs in a meat grinder or cut them very finely.
4. In zucchini add salt and pepper, lemon juice, milk. Beat eggs, lay onions. Start mixing the dough, adding a little flour.
5. Brush a baking sheet or baking dish with a minimum amount of olive oil. Using a spoon, you need to put dough cakes on it, give them the same shape.
6. Preheat the oven to 185 degrees. Bake potato pancakes for 25 minutes. Prepare a light sauce for serving of minimum fat content, sour cream, garlic, and herbs.

Recipe 2 - Zucchini dumplings with cheese

It is impossible to break away from this dish because it is insanely delicious. Zucchini pancakes with cheese will appeal to even kids who are hard to get to eat most vegetables. They are nutritious and nutritious. The cheese in the dough makes the consistency of the dish very pleasant, because it melts when frying. Potato pancakes with him even in the photo look very elegant and beautiful.

Ingredients:

• zucchini - 2 large;
• onion - 1 large head;
• hard cheese - 220 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• salt, lean oil, pepper;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• flour - 250 grams.

Cooking method:

1. Washed and peeled zucchini grate on a coarse grater. Salt them, let stand a little, and then wring out to remove excess juice.
2. Scroll the onion and garlic in a meat grinder.
3. Stir the zucchini with eggs and sour cream. Put salt, soda, pepper in the dough, add onions and garlic. Start kneading by adding flour.
4. Put the cheese grated on a fine grater into the vegetable mixture.
5. Heat oil in a skillet. Form a spoonful of dough pancakes. Fry on both sides until their surfaces are golden. It is advisable to serve them hot.

Recipe 3 - Zucchini Dumplings without Eggs

Vegetarians will also not be deprived of the pleasure to try potato pancakes. This dish can be cooked step by step and without eggs, the taste of this will not deteriorate. You can choose any method of processing products: both frying and baking. Draniki from zucchini without eggs is allowed to eat in the post. They are suitable for those young ladies who follow the figure and adhere to strict diets.

Ingredients:

• flour - 340 g;
• turmeric - 0.5 tsp;
• zucchini - 3 large;
• salt pepper;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the zucchini. Clean them if necessary, rub two coarsely, one finely. Salt, set aside for a few minutes. Drain excess juice by squeezing the vegetable well.
2. Mix zucchini with flour. Season with pepper, turmeric. If the dough seemed too thin, you can add more flour.
3. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Fry potato pancakes over high heat on both sides. You can bake them for 25 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Serve with garlic sauce.

Recipe 4 - Potato Zucchini and Potato pancakes

A variant of the dish, close to the traditional Belarusian. The recipe for potato pancakes from zucchini and potatoes is very popular step by step. There are many reasons for this. Potato and zucchini pancakes are very palatable, soft and tender. They are in harmony with almost all sauces: garlic, sour cream, sweet and sour, tomato. Even looking at the photo of this dish, I immediately want to cook it.

Ingredients:

• zucchini - 3 large;
• flour - 280 g;
• potatoes - 6 pieces medium;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• onion - 1 head;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• pepper, salt, oil.

Cooking method.

It is unlikely that there will be many people who do not like the taste of potato pancakes with a crispy crust. The recipe for this dish has migrated to us from Belarus for several decades. Since then, our compatriots have widely used it to the delight of lovers of a hearty meal, Potato pancakes and zucchini deserve special attention. Even the most inexperienced cook can make them. In everyday life, this factor plays an important role. A delicious daily meal can be prepared in minutes.

Recipes for making potato pancakes from zucchini and potatoes

At the heart of this dish are two simple vegetables that together give an amazing taste. The basic recipe remains unchanged, but each culinary adds its secret ingredients to add variety. Thus, original formulas are born, which are constantly being improved and passed from mouth to mouth from generation to generation. If you want to learn how to cook potato pancakes, write down for yourself common recipes that have gained recognition in dozens of countries around the world. Having mastered them perfectly, you can improvise by adding new ingredients to your liking.

Potato and zucchini pancakes in a pan

If your household does not particularly favor zucchini, try to instill a love for them, resorting to tricks. Prepare a large bowl of potato pancakes with this vegetable. The taste of zucchini and potato dishes will be specific, but no one will guess what you added there. The family will appreciate your work and will certainly ask you to cook potato pancakes again. In order for your vegetable pancakes to be approved, you must know the proportions of the necessary ingredients and be able to properly fry them.

Grocery list:

• zucchini of medium size - 2 pcs.;
• yellow potatoes - 1 kg;
• wheat flour - 300-320 g;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• salt - 5-7 g;
• pepper - 5-7 g.

1. Grind pre-peeled vegetables on a medium grater.
2. Add chicken eggs, pepper, salt.
3. Slowly introduce the flour, gradually mixing the dough.
4. Heat the pan to medium temperature, pour a little oil.
5. Using a tablespoon or dessert spoon, spread the pancakes of a centimeter thickness.
6. Fry until pancakes on both sides are covered with a delicious golden crust.
7. Spread on a plate. Serve with garlic sauce.

With semolina

An original recipe in which a special component is involved - semolina. With it, potato pancakes become denser. Their taste is noticeably different from the simple fritters of potatoes and zucchini. This dish will never get bored. In the summer, in the season of cheap vegetables, you can please their family every day. Tasty and, most importantly, wholesome treats will be appropriate at any family feast.

Essential Ingredients:

• semolina - 180 g;
• boiled water - 100 ml;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• zucchini - 400 g;
• flour - 40 g;
• salt - 8-10 g;
• ground pepper - 8-10 g;
• vegetable oil - as needed.

Step by step cooking potato pancakes, zucchini and semolina:

1. Pour semolina with water. Leave for a quarter of an hour to swell.
2. Grind zucchini with potatoes on a medium grater.
3. Pass garlic cloves through the garlic press.
4. Finely chop the carrots.
5. Mix prepared vegetables with soaked semolina.
6. Add eggs to the container with a total weight.
7. Pour in flour.
8. Introduce the spices.
9. Stir the dough thoroughly.
10. In small portions of 40-50 grams, put the pancakes in a pan.
11. Fry the pancakes until both sides are covered with a golden brown.
12. Ready-made potato pancakes are served with light mayonnaise or sour cream.

In a slow cooker

The happy owners of multicookers Polaris and Redmond unanimously declare that potato pancakes cooked in such devices turn out to be extremely tasty. You can follow suit. Prepare the products, make the dough, divide it into small portions of 40-50 grams, and wait until the miracle machine does the main job for you. With this approach, you don’t have to think about how to fry potato pancakes in a pan.

List of ingredients:

• potatoes - 1 200 g;
• zucchini - 500 g;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• semolina - 50 g;
• medium onions - 2 pcs.;
• spices - a moderate amount;
• vegetable oil - 75-100 ml.

Cooking process:

1. Peel vegetables and grind. Mix them in one container. Drain the juice.
2. Add semolina, beat in eggs, introduce spices.
3. Stir the dough thoroughly.
4. Put the pancakes in the multicooker bowl. Start the baking mode.
5. In a quarter of an hour, turn over potato pancakes and detect as many more.

Potato pancakes with zucchini and cheese

Many familiar dishes can be supplemented with cheese, and potato and zucchini pancakes are no exception. With this product, the taste becomes more refined and refined. A small portion of grated hard cheese, added to the vegetable dough, will cause indescribable delight for everyone who happens to taste a couple of your pancakes. If you already know how to make potato pancakes, making minor adjustments to the recipe is not difficult. Harvest food and get started!

Essential Ingredients:

• yellow potato - 12 pcs.;
• pitching young - 2 pcs.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 150 g;
• garlic - half the head;
• wheat flour - 80-100 g;
• vegetable oil - 80 g;
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
• ground pepper, salt to taste.

Order of preparation:

1. Peel potatoes and zucchini. Rinse under the tap. Grind on a coarse grater.
2. Using garlic presses, crush the garlic, finely chop the onion.
3. Add eggs.
4. Introduce the spices.
5. Finely grate the cheese. Add it to the bulk.
6. Stir the dough thoroughly.
7. In a preheated pan, put several servings of dough up to 50 g.
8. Reduce heat to a minimum and fry potato pancakes on both sides.
9. When the color of the fritters becomes golden, put them on a plate.
10. Serve with sour cream or sauce.

How to do with minced meat and onions in the oven

If you want variety, for a moment forget about the pan and make potato pancakes and young zucchini in the oven. The dish that you cook with onions and minced meat will somewhat resemble cutlets. Such pancakes will delight your household at an ordinary everyday dinner and will look worthy at a solemn feast. The recipe is significantly different from the basic formula, so write it down so as not to get out of your head.

List of required products:

• yellow potato - 1300 g;
• zucchini - 400 g;
• onions - 3 pcs.;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• minced pork - 450 g;
• greens - 1 bunch;
• pepper, salt - in moderation.

Cooking process:

1. Dice the onion. Mix it with minced meat.
2. Add spices, chopped herbs. To stir thoroughly.
3. Finely grate potatoes with zucchini. Add eggs and salt. Leave this mixture in a separate bowl.
4. Oil a preheated pan. Put a few potato-zucchini pancakes on it.
5. When they take a solid form, top with minced meat cakes of the appropriate size.
6. On top of the minced meat, lay out another layer of vegetable dough. Cover the pan.
7. Turn over potato pancakes carefully so as not to disrupt the sequence of layers.
8. After 20-25 minutes, the pancakes with potatoes will be ready for use.
9. Put them on a plate. Allow to cool slightly.
10. Serve with sour cream to the table.

Lenten eggless pancakes

Gentle lean pancakes will appeal to adults and children. Their taste is as magnificent as aroma. Using the simplest products and an ordinary cast-iron frying pan, you will prepare a full bowl of potato pancakes. They are suitable for any feast, whether it is an ordinary family dinner or a gala event. Take a simple recipe to delight households and guests with a wonderful dish.

Essential Ingredients:

• young zucchini - 400 g;
• potatoes - 800 g;
• white cabbage - 200 g;
• wheat flour - 200 g;
• spices - in moderation.

Step-by-step cooking procedure:

1. Grind zucchini and potatoes. Finely chop the cabbage.
2. Mix vegetables and leave for a quarter of an hour. During this time, juice will come out. It needs to be drained.
3. Add flour, spices.
4. Thoroughly mix the vegetable dough until a thick homogeneous mass is obtained.
5. Heat the pan. Lubricate it with oil.
6. We put small portions of dough into the pan.
7. Turn over the pancakes every 2-3 minutes.
8. When the golden crust appears, remove the pancakes from the fire. We shift them to a plate.

Video recipes: how to cook potato pancakes with zucchini

The videos that you will find below will be useful to those who have not previously had to cook potato pancakes. After reviewing them, you will see the whole process with your own eyes. For clarity, each recipe includes a photo of the finished dish. Based on what you saw and heard while watching these videos, you can independently prepare wonderful potato pancakes and young zucchini for the joy of the whole family!

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