How to fry pancakes without oil

Pancakes - a favorite Russian national dish, can be made less caloric, if in the recipe, use the minimum amount of oil and fry without it. These pancakes are more mild, dense, but, nevertheless, do not lose their taste.

Is it possible to fry without oil?

Modern frying pans allow you to cook food without the use of cooking oils. Cookware with non-stick Teflon or ceramic coating allows for food to cook, heats up quickly and cools down, easily cleaned and with proper use last for years.

You should not choose the cheapest frying pan with non-stick coating. As a rule, they very quickly come into disrepair.

The easiest recipe for pancakes without oil

To prepare 6 pancakes you will need:

- 1 chicken egg;
- 150 grams of milk (you can take sour);
- 0.5 teaspoon of sugar;
- 0,5 teaspoon of salt;
- 100 grams of boiling water;
- 2-3 tablespoons of sunflower oil (for kneading the dough);
- flour (for consistency).

Whisk the egg in a deep bowl. Add the sugar and salt, mix well. Then add to the mixture the milk and boiling water, stir with a whisk until smooth. Optionally, you can not mix water and milk and immediately take 250 grams of milk. However, the boiling water makes the custard batter, so the pancakes the result is lace.

After adding in the dough with the liquids need to pour the flour. It is difficult to immediately specify how much it will need: the exact amount of flour needed depends on the size of eggs, which served as the basis for the test. To start, pour 3 tablespoons with a slide, mix thoroughly. See how the dough comes off the spoon. If it the consistency is like a very liquid cream, then more flour is not necessary. If it turned out watery – add more.

Later in the dough to pour 2-3 tablespoons of sunflower oil and mix everything for 3 minutes. In principle, it is possible not to add oil into the dough on a Teflon pan it's still a good fry. However, you have already made pancakes, and tortillas.

Remember that the batter cannot be stored. Start frying immediately after its preparation.

Clean dry pan put on the fire. The roasting temperature can vary depending on the pan. So, frying pan with a thick bottom good prikalivatsja and allows you to fry pancakes on the fire above average. However, they prepared very quickly. On the contrary, more cheap thin pans heat up slowly, so with a strong fire burning outside a pancake and not baked through inside. That's why thin pans allow you to bake pancakes slowly and on low heat.

The oil in the pan to pour is not necessary. When it is sufficiently warmed up, spoon slightly less than 1 ladle of the dough and slowly tilt the pan at different angles, pour it on the bottom of the pan. Right damn completely covers the bottom of the pan. In 30-60 seconds, when the edges of the pancake is browned, carefully flip it to the other side. As a rule, on the other side of the pancake is fried faster. When frying pancakes is very important to use plastic or wooden spatulas, as the metal can scratch the non-stick frying pan.