Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Potato dill pancakes
Squeeze the potato dry. Dill in the batter. Sour cream at the table.
The sheet · 4 cakes · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Squeeze the potato dry. Dill in the batter. Sour cream at the table.
What it needs
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- potato
- eggs
- dill
- flour
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: sour cream.
Method
- Grate the potato and squeeze it hard in a cloth. Then let the liquid settle and pour it off — the white starch at the bottom goes back in.
- That starch is the binder, which is why traditional recipes need almost no flour.
- Work fast. Grated potato goes gray in minutes once it is exposed to air.
- Hot pan, plenty of fat, thin cakes, and left alone until the edges are dark before turning.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- potato
- Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- dill
- Grassy and slightly anise, and it belongs to cold food more than hot.
- flour
- Thickener and structure. Raw flour tastes like paste, so it wants a minute of cooking in fat before liquid arrives — that minute is the difference between a sauce and a lumpy disappointment.
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