I never really liked the pancakes served at numerous diners. The were light, fluffy, soft and pretty much needed to be soaked with syrup to taste like anything. Then i tried these dutch pancakes and decided that if am going to have pancakes then i am going to have these ones. These pancakes are not light and fluffy but are very custardy and dense, they are not thick and soft but are infact thin and crispy on the edges. The apples make are a good fruity addition and cinnamon just goes great with the apples.
(Makes 1 large pancake)
Half cup milk
1 egg or equivalent egg beaters
1/2 cup all purpose flour (I would like to try this with wheat flour someday!)
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 table spoons sugar (This helps to make our pancakes be crispy)
pinch of salt.
1 Apple
Non Stick cooking spray
Light Pancake Syrup
Cinnamon Grinder / Powder
Powdered Sugar to sprinkle (You can use a mixture of cinnamon sugar instead)
Warm the milk in microwave. Stir in sugar, pinch of salt and vanilla essence. Whip the egg and slowly add to the milk whipping continuously. Add the flour and whip to make a pourable thick batter.
Slice apple into thin slices as shown.Heat a round pan with slightly tall edges on medium heat and when hot spray some non stick cooking oil. Add apple slices and light fry each side for couple of minutes.
Do not overcook the apples, cook enough just for them to change their color and caramalize a bit. Set Aside onto a plate.
Heat same pan on medium heat and check hotness by sprinkling little water on it to see if it sizzles. Spray oil when pan is hot and then lift the pan up and pour some batter and do a round swirling motion to let the batter move around and coat the complete pan. Add the rest of the batter at the centre. And swirl pan around to get an even spread not too thick. Place the pan back and continue heating on medium without disturbing the pancake.
As the pancake cooks, the top will start going dry and might puff up from trapped air. Loosen the pancake from sides and keep pressing down on the pancake as it cooks when it starts to swell up with trapped steam. This is to make sure the pancake is golden brown evenly and crispy.
Check the underside of the pancake and if it crispy and brown, spray just a bit of oil on the top side and flip the pancake.
On the side you just flipped up, lay the apple slices like pizza toppings. Cook on slightly lower heat because the drier side gets crispier faster. Cook till pancake is crispy and slide onto the plate.
Add Pancake syrup in an outward spiral starting from the centre. Grind Cinnamon all over the pancake and using a collander sprinkle powdered sugar.
Cut into individual portions using a pizza cutter and serve.
You can try wheat flour with a pinch of baking powder. Different toppings can also be tried like bananas.
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