Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes)
Belarus's national dish — grated raw potato with onion, bound with a little egg and flour and fried in hot oil until lacy and crisp at the edges, then eaten straight from the pan with cold sour cream.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1 kg floury potatoes, peeled
- 1 medium onion
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp black pepper, ground
- 150 ml sunflower oil, for frying
- 250 g sour cream, to serve
- 10 g dill, chopped
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 2832 kcal · P 37.3g · C 217.4g · F 204.6g
Estimated from 9 of 9 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Grate the potatoes on the fine side of a box grater and the onion straight into the same bowl; the onion juice keeps the potato from turning grey.
- 2Tip the mixture into a sieve over the bowl and press out the liquid. Let it stand for 2 minutes, pour off the liquid but keep the white starch that settles at the bottom, and stir the starch back into the potato.
- 3Mix in the egg, flour, salt and pepper; the mixture should be wet but hold on a spoon.
- 4Heat a 3 mm layer of the oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Drop in heaped tablespoons of the mixture and flatten them to about 1 cm.
- 5Fry for 3–4 minutes a side, until deep golden, crisp at the edges and cooked through; add more oil between batches.
- 6Drain briefly on kitchen paper and serve hot with the sour cream and dill.
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Questions and answers
How long does Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes) take to make?
About 45 minutes: 20 min prep and 25 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes)?
9 ingredients: floury potatoes, onion, egg, plain flour, salt, black pepper, sunflower oil, sour cream, dill.
How many servings does this Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes) recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes)?
About 708 kcal, with 9.3 g protein, 54.3 g carbohydrate and 51.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
Which diets does this Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes) recipe suit?
It is vegetarian.
What cuisine is Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes)?
Draniki (Belarusian Potato Pancakes) comes from Belarusian cuisine.
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