Pancakes prepared according to this recipe are thin and delicate or porous and spongy, depending on how you knead the dough. They will be the perfect family Sunday morning breakfast or the signature dessert, accompanied by fresh berries and powdered sugar if guests are on the doorstep.
For pancakes you will need:
- 400 g of wheat flour;
- 800 ml of milk;
- 50 g of vegetable oil;
- 3 eggs;
- 25 g of sugar;
- 3 g of salt.
Cooking pancakes
Beat eggs with sugar and salt. If you want to make thin delicate pancakes, use a whisk. For fluffier pancakes, a mixer will do. The difference is in the enrichment of the beaten egg with oxygen: the more oxygen, the more porous the dough products will be.
Heat milk to 45-55 degrees. It is believed that this temperature is ideal for kneading the pancake dough in this recipe. In the absence of a thermometer, you can "catch" it if you dip the tip of your little finger into milk - it should pinch, but not burn.
Combine warm milk with eggs, stir half of the vegetable oil in the resulting mixture. Then slowly add flour.
When all the flour is dispersed in the liquid fraction of the pancake dough, it must be left to "rest". At this time, there is a certain interaction of products at the molecular level. In everyday language, flour swells and binds better to milk and eggs. The quality of the pancakes prepared according to this recipe depends on how much easier and faster their interconnection occurs.
To bake pancakes, you need a good cast iron skillet. Heat it until white smoke appears, moisten a silicone brush with vegetable oil and grease a frying pan. Pour the pancake dough with a ladle - the layer should be as thin as possible and immediately spread over the pan, taking up the entire surface area.
After 1-2 minutes, pick up the pancake with a spatula and try to slightly lift one edge. If this is not yet possible, wait some more time. Usually two to three minutes is enough for a thin pancake to bake on one side. Turn over gently and toast the other side.
Serve the pancakes with berries, fruit, jam, or runny honey. However, if you are not a sweet tooth, they will also be very tasty with a melted piece of butter.
