Potato pancakes with original fillings: Tetiana Lytvynova shared her recipes

Who doesn't love pancakes, especially well-fried ones with sour cream? And if they are made with unusual fillings, such as meat, mushrooms, and onions, the taste of the dish will reveal itself in a whole new way.

Culinary expert and MasterChef judge Tetiana Litvinova shared 3 recipes for delicious and completely unexpected fillings for pancakes on her YouTube channel that everyone will love.

Cooking secrets from the cook:

• onions will give flavor to pancakes
• after grating the potatoes, be sure to drain off the excess liquid
• add baking soda to the dough for pomp
• be sure to transfer the finished pancakes to a paper towel so that excess fat drains off

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - 1200 g
• Onion - 200 g
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Wheat flour - 4 tbsp.
• Salt - 1 tsp.
• Black pepper - 0.5 g. 
• Soda - 1 tsp.
• Butter - 100 g

Filling:

• Minced chicken thighs - 450 g
• Onion - 150 g
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Black pepper - 0.5 g. 
• Suluguni - 100 g

Method of preparation:

1. Dough: Peel the potatoes and onions and soak them in water. Put these two ingredients in a blender and blend, but you can also grate them. Drain the excess liquid from the potatoes.
2. Chop the onion and add it to the potatoes, add 2 eggs, salt, baking soda, mix, and 4 tbsp of flour, and mix well again.
3. For the meat filling: cover a board with cling film, grease it with vegetable oil, put the minced chicken and fried onions on the board, and cover it with cling film. Next, roll it out evenly with a rolling pin and then remove the plastic wrap.
4. Classic pancakes: Heat a frying pan well, pour in vegetable oil, and spoon in the pancakes. Fry on both sides until golden brown and be sure to transfer to a paper towel to drain off excess fat.
5. Stuffed pancakes: spoon the pancakes into the pan, put a flat piece of minced meat on top, and then put the dough back on top and fry well.
6. Suluguni pancakes: put an even layer of dough on a preheated frying pan, when it sets, sprinkle with generously grated cheese, carefully put the dough on top again, and fry well.

It is best to serve all three types of pancakes hot, with herbs and sour cream, it will be very tasty, hearty, and flavorful.