Draniki is a national dish from Belarus. It became especially popular in our country in the XX century. Potatoes were one of the most common vegetables. Therefore, housewives tried to diversify dishes with potatoes.
However, diversity in the menu visited not only Soviet women. Jews, too, have their own recipe for draniki. Jewish draniki are prepared from cabbage, without adding potatoes. This is a hearty, budget dish that can be prepared all the time. We will tell you how to cook cabbage draniki.
Ingredients for cabbage draniki:
- kefir – 400 ml;
- egg – 2 pcs;
- salt – ½ tsp;
- soda – tsp;
- flour – 400 ml;
- cabbage – 500 g;
- onion – pcs;
- carrots – pcs.
Preparation of cabbage draniki:
It is necessary to finely shred cabbage, dice onions, and grind carrots on a grater. In a frying pan with hot vegetable oil put onions, bring to softness
. To the onions put cabbage and carrots, cover the mixture of vegetables with a lid and stew until ready.
At this time it is necessary to beat eggs with salt, and dissolve baking soda in kefir
. Mix the egg mass and kefir, sift flour into the mixture.
In the resulting dough put the stewed vegetables, mix again.
In a frying pan, fry the pancakes in a small amount of oil. Put the dough on the surface with a spoon, cook on medium heat until golden crust.
You get puffy Jewish draniki from cabbage. This is a good substitute for the usual draniki and a reason to diversify your diet.