What to add to the dough for fluffy potato pancakes: the two most important ingredients

One of the best potato dishes is pancakes, which can be prepared in different ways, with a filling or sauce. Perfect potato pancakes: soft, fluffy and not darkening. And to make them that way, you need to know what to add to the dough.

The FoodOboz editorial team has gathered information for you and will tell you what you can add to the dough for potato pancakes to make them fluffy.

Flour or starch

This means that after you grate the potatoes, you should salt them well and leave them like that for a few minutes. Then drain the liquid that the vegetable releases and add a few spoons of flour or starch to it.

Eggs.

Experienced housewives say that it is advisable to add not one, but two eggs to the dough for pancakes. They make the dough liquid, so you can drain off the excess liquid again and repeat the procedure with flour or starch.

Cooking secrets

• To prevent the potato pancakes from darkening, be sure to add a grated onion to the dough.
• If the pancakes turn out to be rubbery, you have added too much flour; if the pancakes are too thin, there is too much excess liquid in the dough.

• If you want to make pancakes without eggs, add a little more flour to the dough. Approximate proportions: 4 tbsp of flour for 800 g of potatoes.
• To prevent the pancakes from falling apart, you can periodically pour off the liquid that will form.
• To prevent the pancakes from burning and being raw inside, cook them over low heat under a lid.