Dracena: the recipe of our grandmothers

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

On the weekend, when the whole family is together and no one is in a hurry to go about their business, every housewife wants to treat her family and loved ones to a delicious breakfast.

Quick and tasty

Of course, you can stand by the stove for 2-3 hours and cook something complex and unusual, or you can spend quite a bit of time and serve a dish to the table that absolutely everyone will like. It's called drachena. The recipe for its preparation is quite simple - see for yourself. In this article, we will publish the most popular varieties of drachena, each of which is good in its own way.

A la casserole

Dracena is a delicious, hearty dish that was eaten in the vastness of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Some 30 years ago, drachena was cooked in almost every family, then the recipe was forgotten, giving way to newfangled dishes. As a rule, the main ingredients of drachena are eggs and milk, as well as potatoes, bread or any cereal. In a nutshell, drachena (whose recipe can be varied with any products you wish) is something between an omelette and a casserole. To date, this dish is gaining popularity again, and we will not lag behind the culinary fashion.

Egg Miracle

If you and your household love eggs, then the egg drachena, the recipe of which we propose to master, will become one of your favorite homemade dishes. To prepare drachena, we need the following products:

• Milk - 1 cup.
• Eggs - 8 pieces.
• Wheat flour - 1 tablespoon.
• Sour cream - 2 tablespoons.
• Butter - 60 grams.
• S alt, spices - to taste.
• Greens (onion, parsley, dill) - to taste.

First of all, carefully separate the yolks from the proteins. We put the proteins in the freezer for a short while, and mix the yolks, sour cream, flour, s alt and spices thoroughly, gradually pouring in the milk.

We take out the cooled proteins and beat them with a mixer or a whisk into a steep foam, add to the main mass and mix gently. Lubricate the ceramic or silicone mold with vegetable oil, put our workpiece there and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 7-10 minutes until our drachena becomes lush and ruddy.

We take out the finished dish from the oven, pour melted butter on top and sprinkle generously with finely chopped herbs. That's all - our egg drachena, the recipe of which will be mastered even by those who are not strong in cooking, is ready! You need to eat it right away before it falls off.

Potato fantasies

If you want something hearty and not too difficult to prepare for breakfast, then potato drachena, the recipe of which is not much more complicated than the basic one, is what you need! We will need suchingredients:

• Potato - 6 tubers.
• Wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
• Salo - 30 grams.
• Egg - 1 piece.
• Soda - 1 pinch.
• Sour cream - to taste.
• Onion - 2 pieces.
• Butter - to taste.
• S alt, pepper, spices to taste.

First, peel the potatoes, wash them and rub them on a coarse grater. Put in a saucepan, add eggs, s alt, spices and soda.

Put a frying pan on the fire, melt the fat and fry the finely chopped onion on it until transparent. After that, add the onion to the potato mass and mix.

Grease a silicone mold or a deep baking sheet with vegetable oil, put the future drachena there, evenly distribute with a spoon. We put the form in a preheated oven and bake the drachena until cooked at a temperature of 200-230 degrees. When serving, drizzle with melted butter or sour cream.

Cheese aroma

For a change, you can cook drachena with cheese - fragrant and extraordinarily tasty. Just imagine the alluring cheese smell that will wake up the household better than any alarm clock … To get a spicy cheese drachena, the recipe suggests using only hard cheeses. So, we take the following products:

• Milk - 1 cup.
• Wheat bread - 120 grams.
• Cheese - 80 grams.
• Butter - 2 tablespoons.
• Eggs - 8 pieces.
• S alt and spices to taste.

First things first rubcheese on a large grater. Then we cut off the crust from the bread, and cut the crumb into small cubes. Separate the yolks from the whites. Heat up the milk and pour over the bread cubes. Leave until the bread is soaked. After that, add 2/3 of the grated cheese and yolks there. S alt, add spices and mix well.

Next, beat the whites into a strong foam and add to the total mass. Stir gently until smooth. We grease the form with oil, put our bread-cheese-egg mixture there and level with a spoon. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until golden brown. Before serving, we grease our drachen with butter. If desired, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Some sweetness

Did you know that in addition to potato, egg and cheese, there is sweet drachen? The recipe with a photo of this diverse dish, which was prepared in the villages on major holidays by our grandmothers, we publish in our article. To prepare sweet dracheny we need:

• Wheat flour - 1 cup.
• Rye flour - 1 cup.
• Milk - 2 cups.
• Powdered sugar - 3 tablespoons.
• Eggs - 3 pieces.
• Butter - 50 grams.

First, separate the yolks from the whites. Then, in one container, grind the yolks with powdered sugar, and in the other - butter. We combine everything together and stir, gradually introducing milk and flour. Then s alt, add spices and mix everything again until elastic.

Lubricate a mold or a frying pan without a handle with oil, pour the prepared mass into it and put it in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 30 minutes. When our drachena is baked, you can sprinkle it with powdered sugar. That's all the wisdom! Now you know how to cook drachena and diversify your table.