How to cook American pancakes?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Each national cuisine has special dishes that make it easy to recognize in which country a person lives. Along with Italian pasta, Japanese sushi and Belarusian potato pancakes, American pancakes are also well known. This dish is well known to many from films. In many films, this is what every American family cooks for breakfast.

Classic recipe

First you need to figure out what this product is. American pancakes are not at all like those baked in Russia. They are more like medium sized pancakes. They are mainly prepared with milk, but kefir or cream are also used as the main liquid ingredient. For example, consider the classic version of cooking unusual pancakes.

The following ingredients are required for work: the same amount of flour, 3 eggs, a pinch of s alt, 2 tablespoons of sugar and vegetable oil, and 2 teaspoons of baking powder are taken for a glass of milk.

American pancakes are surprisingly easy to make:

1. Egg firstyou need to break and separate the whites from the yolks. Each of them must be collected in a separate container.
2. Beat egg whites with s alt into a thick foam.
3. To the yolks, first add sugar and milk, and then baking powder and flour. The mass must be thoroughly mixed with a mixer.
4. Gently fold in egg whites with a spoon.
5. The dough is almost ready. It remains only to pour in vegetable oil.
6. Heat the frying pan strongly. The first time it can be lubricated with oil. Then this will not need to be done.
7. Scoop up part of the dough with a ladle or spoon and pour it into a hot frying pan. As soon as bubbles appear on the surface, the workpiece should be turned over. To do this, it is better to use a special spatula. The second side cooks much faster.

This dish takes very little time to prepare. Pancakes are baked almost instantly.

Important details

American pancakes are easy to recognize from the outside. They are usually round and very lush. The thickness of such a pancake, as a rule, is at least 5 millimeters. In addition, the pancakes have a flat and smooth surface. The reason is that they are baked only in a dry frying pan. The first time it can be lubricated, and then it is no longer required. On a hot surface, the mass instantly seizes, and the rest of the air mass is baked in a matter of seconds. But, in order not to be afraid of accidental burning, it is better to use non-stick cookware. Historians claim that this dish was brought to the States by emigrants from Scotland. Since then this product has becomea traditional dessert of both Americans and Canadians. Typically, tender pancakes are stacked on plates and topped with chocolate or maple syrup. Real sweet tooth from such a delicacy will be delighted. Berries, fruits or honey are sometimes used as additives. They can be placed on a plate next to pancakes or added to the dough during kneading. In any case, the result is excellent.

Subtleties of technology

What is so remarkable about American pancakes (pancakes), unlike those that are baked, for example, in Russia? First, you need to pay attention to the name of the dish itself. It consists of two words: “pan” is translated from English as “frying pan”, and “cake” is “cake” or “pancake”. Secondly, the unique recipe allows you to get an unusually soft and delicate product. Despite the fact that the dough is kneaded very thick, pancakes are simply airy. This is because the egg whites are beaten separately. Connecting with the dough at the last stage, they saturate it with oxygen to the maximum, which accumulates in the bubbles of stable foam. Ready fragrant pancakes are poured with jam, honey or syrup. And along with hot tea, this is a great opportunity to have a good snack. The last feature is the baking process itself.

All you need is a dry hot frying pan. The rest depends on how the hostess will have time to quickly and correctly turn the blanks.

Alternative

According toone of the recipes you can cook very tasty American pancakes (pancakes) on kefir. Externally, such a product will not differ in any way from the one that was prepared using milk.

The following components will be present in the changed composition: for half a kilo of flour you need the same amount of kefir, 2 eggs, two tablespoons of sugar and melted butter, one teaspoon of s alt and baking soda.

The cooking method will be slightly different from the previous version:

1. Beat the eggs well, gradually adding sugar and kefir to them.
2. Mix flour with soda.
3. Add egg mixture and mix thoroughly.
4. Introduce melted butter and then finish kneading.

After that, it remains only to put the pan on the fire and gradually, one by one, bake lush pancakes. Ready-made pancakes can be immediately put on portioned plates of 2-3 pieces and poured with syrup, sour cream or any other product.

Required supplies

Before you start working, you need to check that there are all the necessary accessories for this on the table:

1. Deep bowl for kneading dough.
2. Whisk for manual whipping of mass. At the first stage, you can also use a mixer. Then such intensive mixing will no longer be advisable.
3. It is better to immediately take a small frying pan so that the diameter of the products is no more than 15-17 centimeters.
4. A sieve is necessary forsifting flour. It helps to solve two problems at once: it prevents foreign inclusions from entering the dough and saturates the flour with oxygen. This is especially important.
5. A ladle or a large spoon for putting the dough into the pan.
6. Shovel for turning the product.

Having everything you need, you can start cooking American pancakes. The recipe with photos is good for beginners. They will be able not only to control the correctness of their actions, but also to see how the product should look at each stage.

Chocolate dessert

There are many different ways to make wonderful American pancakes. A recipe with a photo step by step will be a good teacher for those who will do it for the first time. For chocolate lovers, a very interesting recipe can be offered.

You will need a fairly large list of products: half a glass of whole grain and wheat flour, an egg, a glass of milk, 4 tablespoons of cocoa, a little s alt and 50 grams of powdered sugar, 30 milliliters of vegetable oil, a tablespoon of baking powder and 4 drops of almond flavor.

The whole process can be divided into six stages:

1. Sift and combine dry ingredients (cocoa, s alt, powder and flour) together.
2. Shake the egg with a whisk.
3. Add milk to it.
4. Combine both masses and stir them well.
5. Add remaining ingredients.
6. Bake products, pre-wellheating the pan.

Do not violate the above procedure. Otherwise, you may not get the desired result.