Approx cost: €1.00
Approx calories (per six pancakes, not including butter, syrup): ~360
Approx preparation time: 25 minutes
Pancakes make a really great breakfast on a sunday morning, and really don’t take very long at all to make. Served with a hot cup of coffee, a big lump of butter and half a bucket of maple syrup they may not make the healthiest meal but it’s certainly one of my favourites!
Ingredients
Ingredients you'll need for this dish
– 130g Plain Flour (1 cup)
– 1 tbsp Sugar
– 3 tsps Baking Powder
– 0.5 tsps Salt
– 1 Egg
– 0.6 decilitres Oil
– 2.4 decilitres Milk
Instructions
- First, put the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, egg, oil and milk in a large bowl and whisk until smooth. Transfer to a suitably sized jug and place a frying pan on a hot stove with a
couple of teaspons of extra oil in the pan.
When the oil is hot, pour the batter into the pan in circles, about 7cm across. Bubbles will rise to the surface of the batter and break. When the top of the batter is bubbly and has solidified a little, flip over and fry on the other side for about 20 seconds. Remove the pancakes from the pan and repeat until all the batter is used up. You can either serve immediately or keep them warm in a tin covered with foil in the oven around 100 degrees Celsius.
- Once all pancakes are ready, serve in a stack on a plate. The ingredients above should be sufficient for around 12 pancakes, so two servings of 6 each. Serve with butter and maple syrup, if you have it available, or jam, honey, or even with scrambled eggs and bacon and so forth.
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I know a Johnny person that will be forced to practice this recipe till perfection 😉
Haha, I love these. They've gotta be the best breakfast ever! Nothing beats sitting inside when it's all snowy outside on a lazy sunday with a giant stack of pancakes in front of you!
This is the ultimate comfort food any time of day or night, especially when they are made for you.
There definitely is an art to making the perfect pancake. You seem to have mastered it!
You have a very nice blog. I am glad I visited it. I hope that you will give my blog a visit too. Thank you and blessings, Catherine
Thanks Catherine. I'm glad you're enjoy looking around, I'll be sure to stop by your blog! 🙂
Dear Charles, I hope that you can find sesame oil. I know that it is sold in the supermarket here in NY, but it is much more expensive in the supermarket. Thank you for stopping by my blog. You have a wonderful blog. Blessings, Catherine
Thanks Catherine – it is much more expensive, it's true, but it doesn't seem to be in the supermarkets at all! I think I might need to go into Paris to go to the special Chinese superstores there. Seems French people don't like sesame oil so much! Have a nice day 🙂
The best valued comfort food in the history of comfort foods!
I quite agree Erwan! Nothing beats a big plate of these, day or night! Thanks for stopping by – hope you're having a good day 🙂
Yep – we'll be making these for breakfast one of these days. I think if it were up to my kids they'd live off of pancakes, pizza and chicken. 🙂
Thanks Kristy! I'm not a big fan of McDonalds, but I *love* their pancakes. This is the result of several weeks of experimentation trying to find the most-McDonalds-like result (gah, as a food lover it positively pains me to write that!). Don't forget a slab of butter and maple syrup 😀
You just said the magic word! My kids LOVE McDonalds' pancakes too! And don't worry, I think as "foodies" we're allowed our guilty pleasures – makes appreciate the truly good stuff all the more. (Or something like that. LOL!) My guilty pleasure is their breakfast burrito. I could eat way too many of those. They are often my special treat on road trips! YUM!
Aaah, the breakfast burrito – Luckily the McDs over here don't sell those (actually the breakfasts available in McDs here are decidedly fail… only pancakes, bacon and egg McMuffin, some sort of toasted bread thing or yoghurt), otherwise I think I'd probably end up over there much more often. It's dangerous having an office right across the road from one of those nasty hell-pits!