Crepes can be eaten for breakfast,lunch or dinner. Try crepes with maple syrup,combination of berries and whip cream, with banana and cream, with cinnamon and brown sugar, with spinach, egg and cheese, or with creamed chicken and mushrooms. Actually, one of my favourites is a spinach ,egg and cheese crepe,Yum!
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 2 minutes
Yields: 14 crepes
Buttermilk Pancakes have a light and spongy texture and their flavor only hints of the richness and tanginess that buttermilk offers. You begin these pancakes as you would any regular pancake batter; by whisking together the flour, baking powder and salt. For this recipe, replace the milk with buttermilk. The Buttermilk Pancakes are so good with pure maple syrup.
Ingredients
1 cup All-purpose flour
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 Egg, lightly beaten
1 cup Buttermilk
Water to adjust the consistency
Idiyappam or String hoppers is a culinary specialty in Tamilnadu, Kerala and Coastal areas of Karnataka. It is also popular in certain areas of Sri Lanka.
It is also called noolappam or noolputtu from the Tamil word for string, nool. It is made of rice flour, salt and water. It is generally served as the main
course at breakfast or dinner together with a curry (potato, egg, fish or meat curry) and coconut chutney. It is also served with sweetened coconut milk in Malabar region of Kerala.
Ingredients
Rice flour 2 cups
Water 3 cups
Grated coconut for garnishing(optional)
Salt to taste
Oil
Jack fruit( chakka) Ada is my all time favorite. In Kerala, you get to have chakka ada, chakka varattiyathu,chakka chips during summer(March to May).When you live in a temperate zone where few arils of Jack fruit cost you $5….then you tend to rely on canned Jack fruit imported from Thailand or Philippines. I used the frozen banana leaf from Philippines for this recipe. Chakka ada takes me back to those nostalgic memories of my school summer vacations.
Ingredients:
1.Roasted Rice flour-2 cups
2.Ripe Jack fruit pulp – ½ cup
3.Jaggery- 1 cup
4.Grated coconut – 1 cup
5.Salt- a pinch
6.Cardamoms -3 No
7.Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp
8.Shallot- 1 No
9.Banana leaves( Vazhayila) for wrapping the Adas
For best results, let the bread slices dry overnight. The hardness of the bread keeps the bread from absorbing too much egg and getting soggy.
Ingredients:
Bread -4 slices
Milk -1/4 cup
Egg -1
Sugar -3 tbsp
Salt -a pinch
Butter -2 tbsp
Vanilla extract/Cardamom powder- 1/4 tsp(optional)
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