Polish Pancakes Recipes

POLISH APPLE PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine flour, sugar if desired and salt. In another bowl, lightly beat egg; add milk and oil. Add to dry ingredients and stir until smooth. Fold in apples. , Pour batter by 1/2 cupfuls onto a lightly greased hot griddle and spread to form a 5-in. circle. Turn when bubbles form. Cook the second side until golden brown and apples are tender. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar if desired.

POLISH PANCAKES

Steps:

• Beat eggs until foamy.
• Add milk, flour, salt and sugar. Beat well.
• Melt 1 teaspoon butter in a 9-inch skillet, tilting to cover entire bottom.
• Pour 1/4 of egg mixture into hot skillet, covering the surface evenly. Cook until firm enough to roll.
• Slip pancake from skillet onto clean cloth.
• Spread with jam and peaches and roll up.
• Repeat process making 4 rolls.
• Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar. Slice and serve warm.

POLISH POTATO PANCAKES

Steps:

• Sauté onions, cabbage and garlic until soft.
• Peel and fine-grate potatoes, or dice and use a blender. The potatoes need to be a real purée. It's ok to add water to blend, as later you MUST put the potatoes into a fine mesh strainer and let the water seep out.
• After 2 or 3 strainings to remove excess water (takes 30 minutes or so), put potato "mud" into a bowl and add egg, salt, pepper, and flour and mix well.
• Add sautéed onion-cabbage mixture to potatoes, mixing well.
• Heat thin layer of oil in electric frypan at 300° F, drop large spoonfuls of mixture into pan and smooth out to a thin pancake about 3-4" in diameter.
• Cook about 5-7 minutes a side until nicely browned and crisp.
• Place on a paper towel lined plate, keeping warm as you do other batches.
• Serve with sour cream.

NALESNIKI (POLISH PANCAKES)

Steps:

• Batter: Sift the flour into a large bowl.
• Add the egg and the egg yolks from the separated eggs.
• Add the milk, water, oil and nutmeg and mix thoroughly.
• Whisk the egg whites together with the salt until stiff, and fold into the batter.
• Filling: Cream the butter with the egg yolk and mix together with the cheese.
• Add the sugar and vanilla sugar.
• Mix well.
• If the mixture is too stiff, add a little bit of milk.
• Putting It Together: Melt some of the butter over medium heat in a small frying pan.
• When it's hot, pour in about 2tbs of batter and cook on both sides until lightly browned.
• Remove from pan and keep warm in the oven at low heat.
• Repeat until all of the batter is used.
• Put a tablespoonful of filling on each pancake, fold over and serve hot.