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Many people have pancakes for breakfast or snacks because they are tasty and nutritious. Furthermore, the pancake usually takes us little time from the preparation to the processing. You can utilise the readily available ingredients to make a wonderful dish of pancakes for your family and yourself.
Due to its commonness and deliciousness, knowing how to make pancakes from scratch is a primary cooking skill that anyone should possess. The tutorial on making pancakes is right here. Scroll down now!
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How To Make Pancakes From Scratch?
Before doing anything, carefully preparing essential stuff will make our work easier and more efficient. Firstly, let’s go into the preparation stage.
Preparation Stage
As we mentioned above, you can make pancakes with ingredients that you can find at any grocery store. They are:
- Flour: Pancake flour is usually whole wheat or multipurpose flour. You can combine these two types of flour if you want. The combination also tastes great. If none of these flours is your choice, you can try to mix any gluten-free flour or go for buckwheat type.
- Sugar: Two sugar types are highly recommended for making pancakes. One is granulated sugar, and the other is brown sugar. While granulated sugar (white sugar) only adds sweetness to the cake, brown sugar will make the pancakes moisture besides sweetening them.
- Baking powder: This ingredient is what creates the fluffiness and lightweight of pancakes.
- Salt: Coarse salt in an amount of ¾ teaspoon of fine salt in the ratio of ½ teaspoon is enough for you to process pancakes. Salt will mix into sugar and keep the flavour balanced.
- Milk: The range of milk choices is wide. You can pick reduced-fat milk, skim milk, whole milk, or non-dairy milk. Which milk you use will depend on whether you want to reduce the calories or not. Interestingly, orange juice also works well with pancakes.
- Melted Butter: People often rely on melted salted butter or melted unsalted butter for pancakes. When using salted butter, you should carefully consider the quantity of salt. Or else, the final product may become too salty. Melted coconut oil is a favourable substitution if you don’t have melted butter within your reach.
- Eggs: Egg is also the ingredient that makes pancakes light and fluffy. As a vegan, you can get rid of eggs while still having pancakes. The guide to making pancakes without eggs is in the “How to make pancake step by step” tutorial below.
- Vanilla/Almond extract: For better flavour and sweetness, you can add these two extracts.
Preparation is crucial for a tasty dish of pancakes.
Step-by-step Direction
1- Put the oven under the 200 Celsius temperature for preheating. Heat-proof platters and baking sheets must be ready for you to place the cooked pancakes on. You can cover a layer of aluminium foil on the platters.
2- Contain the salt, flour, baking powder, and sugar in a small bow. Then, whisk everything in the bowl to form a relatively dense mixture.
3- After processing the dense mixture, you just leave it there and turn to the making of the liquid combination. Whisk egg, milk, and butter in a medium bowl to form the liquid ingredient.
4- Next, add the dense mixture you have previously made into the liquid one and keep whisking until all of the mixtures become moistened.
You have to whisk even.
5 – Moisten a piece of paper towel with melted butter. Fully rub the griddle or the cast-iron/nonstick skillet with the butter-damp towel. On the other hand, you can directly rub the butter on the skillet or the griddle.
Then, heat the griddle or the skillet at the temperature to feel the heat rising from these kitchen appliances by using your hand.
6- The appropriate amount of batter for a pancake is about two or three tablespoons. Spoon the batter and pour it onto the skillet or the griddle. If you utilise a skillet, you have to use the spoon’s back to shape the batter around.
7- Wait for the bubbles to show up on the upper side of the pancakes. Most of the time, it will take 1-2 minutes for this situation to happen.
Once you see the bubbles, you need to use a spatula to flip the pancakes. You must carry out this step with focus and carefulness to avoid leaving the redundant batter on the skillet or the griddle.
When you manage to flip the pancakes, keep waiting for about 2 minutes till the underside turns brown.
The perfect colour of pancakes
8- Place the recently cooked pancakes on the platter or baking sheet you have prepared. Then, leave them in the oven for a few minutes before enjoying the pancakes.
9- Alternative for eggs: People who go vegan can still enjoy delicious pancakes by creating flax eggs. Firstly, combine a tablespoon of water with a tablespoon of ground flaxseed.
Secondly, you just leave the mixture there for about 5 minutes, and it will thicken. The thick final product is the alternative for eggs in making pancakes.
Some Variations Of Pancakes
Above is the widely-used “How to make pancake recipe” for making ordinary pancakes. If you want to taste something different, you can opt for these methods:
- You can put some berries, chocolate chips, nuts, or sliced bananas in the batter.
- Or else, before placing the wet batter on the skillet or griddle, you can add on some slices of strawberry or banana.
- A slightly spicy taste is also interesting. To make the pancakes a little spicier, you can sprinkle slices of nutmeg, cinnamon, or lemon zest.
- Drip syrup, cream, or honey on the pancakes’ surface for deeper sweetness.
Syrup on pancakes
Bottom Lines
We have shown you how to make pancakes from scratch. We can’t deny the tastiness and nutrients that pancakes bring. It’s wonderful to enjoy pancakes every day as our breakfast or snacks.
At first, your final product may not meet your demand. However, keep moving and thoroughly follow our tutorial; you can process your pancake dish with ease.