Salty pancake fillings: 9 ideas for every taste

What to cook pancakes with? A standard question on the eve of Shrovetide. Our answer: with anything!

Pancakes are good because they can be used to wrap meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables, as well as served empty, but with jam, honey, syrup, or some kind of sauce. We have already told you how to make salted caramel and orange sauce for pancakes. Today we have prepared a list of salty fillings for you.

First, you need to prepare the dough. You can choose the dough for pancakes at your own discretion:

• Pancakes with milk
• Pancakes with whey
• Pancakes with water
• Pancakes with kefir
• Pancakes with sour milk
• Pancakes without eggs
• Lean pancakes

If you have decided on the dough, let's start preparing the fillings. Here, as they say, there is a complete flight of fancy: from banal fried eggs with a piece of red fish to complex sauces. We offer you a choice of nine varieties of savory fillings.

• Chicken and mushrooms. An excellent option for a hearty filling – pancakes with a mix of chicken and mushrooms will be a complete breakfast, lunch, or dinner. We suggest you cook chicken with mushrooms and paprika or chicken with mushrooms in a creamy sauce.

• Mushroom julienne. A great filling option for all mushroom lovers. Here is a universal recipe for julienne, in which you can use any kind of mushrooms.
• Pate. Pate is another great filling for pancakes. You can make pate from any kind of liver – chicken, turkey, beef, or pork. For those who don't eat meat, we suggest making mushroom pate, as well as pate made from beans, lentils, or herring.
• Herring with pickled onions. If you don't want to bother with pate, make pancakes with plain salted herring and add pickled onions to it.
• Salmon and cream cheese. Another option for filling with fish is salmon, which we suggest salting yourself. To go with it, prepare homemade Philadelphia cream cheese, the recipe for which we have already shared earlier.
• Bolognese sauce. Bolognese is primarily the name of a meat sauce, and only then – the name of pasta. Since both pasta and pancakes are dough, why not serve minced meat with thin dough instead of pasta? If you don't want to bother, just fry the minced meat with finely chopped onions.

• Cottage cheese mousse with herbs. A very simple recipe for pancake filling. Blend a packet of cottage cheese with a pinch of salt and pepper and your favorite herbs – dill, parsley, cilantro, or mint. If desired, you can squeeze a few cloves of garlic.
• Cheese and ham. Another simple filling: finely chop the ham and mix with grated cheese. Wrap the resulting mass in pancakes and heat them in a frying pan to melt the cheese.
• Stewed cabbage. This filling is suitable for both meat eaters, vegetarians, and vegans because cabbage can be stewed with both meat and mushrooms.