Cornmeal pancakes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the specified products. Use milk of any fat content, of any grade to your liking.

2. Step 2:

   

   Break chicken eggs into a deep container, add granulated sugar and salt. Beat with a whisk or mixer at low speed into a fluffy foam. If desired, add a little flavor or vanilla sugar.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pour in the milk and mix. Instead of milk, you can use cream with a fat content of no more than 10-15%. If chicken eggs with a light yolk, add 2-3 pinches of turmeric to the mass to give the finished dish a bright color.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour in the corn flour and beat the contents of the container. Leave for 40-50 minutes so that the flour swells - this is a mandatory condition! Many ignore this step and add wheat flour, but even with the addition of wheat flour, the dough must be allowed to "rest" for 20 minutes to activate gluten. If this is not done, the first pancakes will tear, and the last ones will be very dense, like pancakes, because of the flour that has sunk to the bottom.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour in the vegetable oil, gently mix the dough.

7. Step 6:

   

   Heat the pan on the stove, turning on the maximum heat, lubricate for the first time with vegetable oil or a piece of lard. stir the corn dough, lifting the flour from the bottom, pour a portion of the dough into the pan, twist, forming a pancake. The dough will be runny - do not be afraid, it should be so! Fry for 1-2 minutes on medium heat until the edges are browned.

8. Step 7:

   

   Flip and bake for another 1 minute. Put the pancake on a plate and fry the rest of the dough in the same way, without greasing the pan with oil.

9. Step 8:

   

   Ready-made pancakes, if desired, lubricate with butter or a piece of lard, they can be wrapped with cottage cheese filling, fruit slicing, etc. On a picnic or on a trip, you can create salted corn pancakes by removing granulated sugar from the list of ingredients.

10. Step 9:

    

    Serve pancakes to the table warm under a cup of fragrant tea or coffee, preferably with honey. They remain juicy and soft during the day. Many even freeze pancakes in the freezer, and then defrost them in the microwave, forming pies from them.