looking for potato cakes and pampoushke recepies

[ricardo]

Does anyone have a good not much oily recepie for small potato cakes and pampoushkes thanks?
Tried few in the past but with no success they come out flat and oily, Also tried the jewish version called latke no good either.

[UkeyMarie]

Originally posted by ricardo
Does anyone have a good not much oily recepie for small potato cakes and pampoushkes thanks?
Tried few in the past but with no success they come out flat and oily, Also tried the jewish version called latke no good either.

You can make sure the oil in the pan is very hot and place on paper towels???

[volya]

Ricardo,
what do you mean by small potato cakes? And pampushki are not supposed to be oily, you have to make them with yeast.By the way, most of Ukrainians don't have specific recipies- we just know what basically goes there, and the amount of ingridients is mostly determined "by eye"

[Lubov]

Originally posted by volya
Ricardo,
what do you mean by small potato cakes? And pampushki are not supposed to be oily, you have to make them with yeast.By the way, most of Ukrainians don't have specific recipies- we just know what basically goes there, and the amount of ingridients is mostly determined "by eye"

Potato cakes (deruny) will come out oily unless you use a non-stick spray of some sort. They tend to absorb a substantial amount of oil during frying. As for pampushki, you can safely use a basic yeast dough recipe. Pampushki are especially good with garlic sauce ( 2 tbs water, 2 tbs oil, 1 clove crushed garlic, a pinch of salt, mix the ingredients, put pampushki into a mixing bowl, pour the sauce over the pampushki, toss - YUMM!!)

[Silkrem]

Hi! I want to add, that pampushki are eaten with Borsch instead of bread. Do not forget a small glass of vodka!

[johnstruthers]

Make sure the skillet is good and hot. The potato cakes (shredded potatoes, eggs, maybe a little kefir and a little flour to help bind them, plus salt to taste) will fry up pretty readily. Squeeze the excess water out of the shredded potatoes before you add the other stuff.

Pampushki: The man's right, plain bread dough plus the mandatory garlic sauce. But try to find the flour you use for cakes, if you can. It's a little lower in gluten and rises better.