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Filled Yemenite Pancakes
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Filled Yemenite Pancakes

Thin Yemenite pancakes filled with white cheese, served with honey and butter

⏱ 45 min🍽 8 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
🧀 Dairy🥬 Vegetarian
Versions:Original🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Whisk the eggs, milk and oil with the salt in a bowl, add the flour and mix to a smooth batter.
    BowlWhisk
  2. 2
    Let the batter rest for 15 minutes.
  3. 3
    Heat a flat pan and grease lightly with the fat.
    ⚙ Greased Flat PanStoveFrying pan
    💡A very thin layer of fat, with the excess wiped off with paper towel: too much fat gives spots and fried edges.
  4. 4
    Pour in ladle of batter and swirl the pan into a thin, even layer.
    Ladle
    💡The first crêpe almost always gets tossed: it tests the heat of the pan and the amount of batter.
  5. 5
    Place a spoonful of the cheese in the center of the crêpe and fold into an oval.
  6. 6
    Fry 2–3 minutes, until the edges dry and brown lightly, flip and fry 1 more minute. Repeat until the batter is used up.
    Stove
  7. 7
    Melt the butter and serve with the honey and melted butter.
    StoveSmall saucepan
270calories
9 gprotein
31 gcarbs
12 gfat
● protein 13%● carbs 46%● fat 41%

Per serving (129 g), of 8 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Ladle · Also works: Measuring cup (Cup) · Spoon / teaspoon (regular) (Slow)
  • Whisk · Also works: Hand mixer (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Fork (Beat with a fork, less air)

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Crêpes

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