Potato pancakes without eggs - Lenten recipe 🥔

Kitchen appliances and utensils: bowl, spatula, tablespoon, grater or blender, knife, board, frying pan, stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Let's start with the main ingredient - potatoes. We will wash it, peel it and finely chop it into cubes if we are going to use a blender. Otherwise, you don’t have to cut it, but you will need to grate it with a fine grater. Having dealt with this component, we do not remove the container in which it is located.
   
2. After peeling the onion, grind it in a blender along with dill. If one is not at hand, finely chop the ingredients with a knife. Add salt to our mix of potatoes, onions and dill. Focus on your taste, but do not overdo it, since systemic consumption of salted food leads to a series of events ending in a heart attack or stroke. Now we need to add pepper. We recommend using freshly ground, since a brighter aroma comes from it.
   
3. We mix the whole consistency with a spatula and add the flour. Initially, we take 70 g, but you need to focus on the juiciness of the vegetable. If the potato has let out a lot of juice, then it should either be squeezed out a little, or the volume of flour to be added, otherwise the potato pancakes will not clutch.
   
4. Mix the dough thoroughly and set the bowl aside. We pass to the stove. We heat the pan by pouring vegetable oil into it. It is desirable that the pan was with a thick bottom, then potato pancakes will not burn. In any case, it is important not to leave the stove during frying and to ensure that the bottom is covered with oil and does not dry out. Using a tablespoon, spread the dough for potato pancakes at a small distance from each other. Reduce the fire from medium to minimum.
   
5. Fry them on both sides until golden. Draniki are crispy anyway, no need to fry them, evaporating all the potato juice.
   
6. Serve the dish by decorating with lettuce, along with sour cream for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Although potato pancakes are primarily associated with Belarusian cuisine, they are also prepared in Poland, Ukraine and Russia, and the recipe itself came from Germany. The name comes from the word “tear”, because earlier the potatoes were not rubbed, but “torn” on pointed boards. The combinations of ingredients are varied. Pancakes are fried with lard, garlic, wild berries, minced meat, cottage cheese, bacon and even pumpkin. In Belarus, they are often offered with a machanka, a traditional national sauce. A real chef will always find his own vision of the recipe and the way of serving, so give free rein to imagination and bon appetit!
   

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