Potato pancakes without flour

The most delicious, beautiful, rosy and appetizing! Potato pancakes without flour — a recipe for real vegetable pancakes, crispy and toasted. The absence of flour makes them less caloric and significantly improves the taste — it becomes more natural.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 3 g
Fats 39 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 50 % 14 g
151 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make potato pancakes without flour? Prepare the products. Wash the potatoes thoroughly under running water, preferably with a brush to wash off all dirt. Also wash the egg. Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush. Take refined, odorless vegetable oil.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse or medium grater. To get a more dietary product, grated potatoes can be washed to wash out excess starch – a source of calories. In addition, if the potatoes are washed, they will not darken. Potatoes will also not have time to darken if the draniki are prepared immediately, without hesitation. The washed potatoes must be squeezed out of the liquid, excess moisture will not allow it to fry.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In a bowl with grated potatoes, beat in a chicken egg. Add spices: salt and ground black pepper to taste. If desired, you can add any more spices, now they sell special sets for potatoes. But it seems to me that this minimum is enough to get delicious pancakes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Knead the mass thoroughly so that the egg is well dispersed and the spices are mixed with the minced potatoes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Spread the minced potatoes on it with a tablespoon, forming pancakes. Draniki should be thin so that the potatoes are well baked inside, then they will turn out delicious and crispy. Fry the draniki over medium heat on one side until browned.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Then flip them over and fry on the second side. Serve the draniki hot, fresh from the pan, with sour cream. Enjoy your meal!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

How do I know if an egg is fresh? Break it into a separate container. First of all, there should be no unpleasant smell. The protein of fresh eggs will be transparent and clean. The yolk should not spread and will be shiny, convex, homogeneous.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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