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Yemenite Cottage Cheese Pancakes
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Yemenite Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Soft, light cottage cheese pancakes, a Yemenite-Israeli tradition. A special, wonderful breakfast with honey and yogurt.

⏱ 30 min🍽 8 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Drain the excess liquid from the cheese.
    Colander
  2. 2
    In a bowl, mix the cheese, eggs, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
    Bowl
  3. 3
    Add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix into a smooth, thick batter.
  4. 4
    Heat the oil in a flat pan over medium-low heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
    💡What you brown (meat, patties, schnitzel) goes into hot oil: in lukewarm oil it soaks it up and comes out greasy. For onion and garlic that you soften, oil heated over medium or low heat is enough; do not wait for it to smoke.
  5. 5
    Drop tbsp heaping of batter into the pan, spaced apart, and flatten lightly into rounds.
    Frying pan
  6. 6
    Fry 3 minutes, until bubbles rise on the surface of the latkes and the edges set, then flip and fry 2–3 more minutes, until lightly browned.
    Stove
    💡When bubbles rise on the surface of the latke and the edges are no longer runny, the bottom is golden and the batter has set: that's the moment to flip.
  7. 7
    Sprinkle the powdered sugar on top.
  8. 8
    Serve the cheese latkes hot with the yogurt and honey.
159calories
9 gprotein
16 gcarbs
6 gfat
● protein 24%● carbs 42%● fat 35%

Per serving (84 g), of 8 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • 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)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)

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