Home made ricotta pancakes | American Breakfast

Another speciality of holidays is that we have late breakfasts. I call it brunch (breakfast+lunch). This mostly happens when we have had nightouts the previous night. On such days I make a heavy breakfast so that we can skip lunch and have supper directly.

In my childhood days I was always served a heavy breakfast. These days most of the times I run away to office with just a glass of milk. Back at home, breakfast was considered an important meal of the day. Here's a simple pancake recipe which we all love at home. and I make it often. Whenever I make this pancake I serve the breakfast in american style. I serve the pancakes with honey. Along with it I serve some fruits, little meat (fried), toasted bread and some juice. Believe me this is a very filling breakfast. Vegetarians can serve boiled or mashed potatoes instead of meat. Try it out!!!

Ingredients:

Ricotta cheese - 125 grams / 1/2 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Eggs - 2

Maida - 125 grams / 1 cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Oil / ghee - 2 tbsp

Salt - to taste

Sugar - 2 tsp

Method:

• Separate the egg whites and egg yolks.
• Put the ricotta cheese, milk and egg yolks into a bowl and mix well to combine. 
• Stir in the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt and gently whisk to make a smooth batter. 
• Keep the batter aside for 30 minutes.
• Just before making the pancakes - Beat the egg whites until they become foamy and then fold them into the batter
• Heat a tava or frying pan. Pour 1/2 tsp of oil or ghee.
• Pour in heaped laddle of batter. Need not spread the pancakes.
• Cook the pancakes for about 1 minute until golden and then flip them over and cook for another minute.
• Remove and store hot.
• Repeat the same for the rest of the batter.

Pancakes are ready!!! Serve warm

Notes:

• Left-over batter can be refrigerated and used. Keep the batter out of the refrigerator 30 minutes before cooking.
• Left-over pancakes can also be refrigerated in an air-tight container. Microwave the pancakes for 30 seconds and serve warm.
• Instead of honey, we can also serve the pancakes with any other syrup like blue-berry syrup

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