Oladie is a rather ancient dish, which is most often associated with the Eastern Slavs. The fact is that pancakes are the ancestors of pancakes. The first pancakes were also small and thick, more like fritters. Later, when cooking utensils were modernized, pancakes became thin and openwork
. However, at the same time, pancakes also remained in the Slavs’ everyday life. This dish was a reminder of past traditions taken from paganism. In addition, when there was little flour, fritters became more profitable to cook than pancakes.
Let’s tell you how you can cook fritters with vegetable filling.
Ingredients for vegetable fritters:
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Carrots – 1 pc;
- Cabbage – 350 g;
- Salt – tsp;
- Sugar – 1/3 tsp;
- Kefir – 350 ml;
- Egg – 1 pc;
- Flour – 250 g;
- Soda – ½ tsp;
- Green onions – 20 g.
Preparation of vegetable fritters:
Chop finely onion, grate carrots on a coarse grater. Shinkuem finely and thinly cabbage. Put the onion in a pan with vegetable oil, lightly fry until transparent.
Add to the onion carrots and cabbage, pour half a spoonful of salt and sugar, stew for 10 minutes on medium heat. While the stuffing cools, break an egg into kefir, pour salt and mix.
Sift flour and soda into the kefir, knead a thick dough
.
Shred the green onion finely, add it to the dough together with the stewed cooled cabbage, stir.
In a frying pan in vegetable oil fry the fritters on both sides until browned
.
After the fritters are flipped to the second side, it is better to cover the skillet with a lid.
The fritters can be placed on a paper towel to let the excess oil drip off.
The fritters are delicious vegetable fritters.
