Friday 11 November 2011

Pancakes

Basically it is a variant of what nigella does with her buttermilk banana pancake.
That recipe can found here .
But since in my house pancake is standard breakfast for my 3 year old ... at least 4 times a week, I had to make it healthier and kid friendlier.
What I do is replace as much flour as possible with oatmeal powder. You can just dry roast standard breakfast oatmeal and then use the mixer to grind it into a powder.
So right now what I do is, take around 3 cups of oatmeal, dry roast it, grind it.
Mix one cup of flour with it ( I have tried to do away with flour altogether, but the result is more moist, heavy and not good looking pancakes ... now kids are the harshest food critic, if the food does not have the exact amount good looks or taste as they expect ... well best of luck with that situation).
Now I have 4 cups of pancake mix, I mix around about 3 small teaspoon of baking power and around one or slightly less teaspoon of edible soda (I use eno), I make this mixture once a week and store.
So in morning when her highness orders pancake, I just take one cup of this mixture, and perishable items, like egg, buttermilk etc.
Standard recipe is, blend all the items below.
1. one cup of flour mixture
2. one egg
3. enough buttermilk to make your favorite styled pancake, you can go by nigellas prescribed amount which will give you spongy thick pancake, I add a little more to get thinner crispier version, as my daughter prefers that, they are little difficult to make, as the thick ones can be flipped easily, no such luck with thinner ones, they can become as fussy as crepes or patisapta.
Don't have buttermilk just add one spoon vinegar in a cup of milk and wait for 5 Min's.
4. one teaspoon of sugar.
5. one tablespoon of melted butter.
6. Add some fruit or variant for flavor, you can add one banana, or apple (with cinnamon power, its heavenly), chocolate chips. Or nothing, it tastes just as good.

As for cooking, heat a tawa, pour the batter with a ladle, flip, butter up (or put in cream), and syrup ... Enjoy!

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