Japanese Pancakes: A Step-by-step Recipe For Fluffy Pastries In A Pan, With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

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How to make Japanese pancakes

The peculiarity of these pancakes is their cylindrical shape. Whatever the dough, it will not rise in the pan as required for Japanese pancakes. Therefore, first of all, you need to get a pastry ring. You can buy it at a china shop or any supermarket. Basically, you can make such a ring yourself from a strip of tin. Observe the diameter, it should be 8-10 cm.

Such a confectionery ring is useful not only for making pancakes.

To make pancakes you will need:

• 5 tablespoons of flour;
• 1 tablespoon of starch;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• a pinch of vanillin;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 4 eggs;

• 3 tablespoons of milk.

  

  To make pancakes, you need the simplest set of foods

This method is very simple and time-tested.

1. Separate the egg yolks and whites. Make sure that there is not a drop of yolk in the whites, otherwise you will not be able to beat the protein mass into a strong foam. Add milk, vanillin, baking powder to the yolks. Whisk well.

   

   Separate egg yolks and whisk with milk

2. Combine starch with flour, sift well. Pour the mixture into the yolk mass and stir with a whisk until smooth. The mixture should resemble thick custard in thickness.

   

   Mix the milk yolk mixture with flour and starch

3. Cool the proteins, add sugar to them and beat with a mixer. Set it to the highest possible speed, the work will take 2-3 minutes. The protein mass should form stable peaks.

   

   Whisk the whites into a strong foam.

4. Take a silicone spatula and use it to gently mix the egg white with the yolk dough. Do this from the bottom up, as if covering the squirrels with dough. This will leave a maximum of air in the mass so that the pancakes acquire a special splendor. Add the rest of the proteins in 2 steps, stirring gently.

   

   Stir the dough gently with a silicone spatula

5. Put some vegetable oil on a napkin and wipe the inside of the pan. The inside of the pastry ring needs to be oiled a little more. Place the cookware on a medium heat, place a ring on it, wait until the surface is properly warmed up. Fill the ring with dough no more than 2/3 full. Quickly add some water (1 tablespoon) to the skillet and immediately cover the pan with a lid to close the steam outlet.

   

   Fill the pastry ring with dough, but not to the top

6. Each pancake needs to be fried for 3-4 minutes. During this time, the dough will increase and the top will set. After that, the pancake ring should be turned over and fried for another 2-3 minutes. Pierce the pancakes with a toothpick to check if they are done.

   

   Fry pancake on both sides

7. To remove the pancake, take a sharp knife and gently slide it over the inside of the ring. After cleaning it, oil well and then pour in the next batch of dough.

   

   Remove pancakes gently from the ring and serve

Japanese pancakes are ready, you can treat them to family and friends.

Any sweet additives are ideal for pancakes.

By the way, I recently learned and tried out another variation of the recipe for Japanese pancakes. The products are the same, but you need to take about 90 ml of milk, and add 1 tbsp. l. with a slide of butter. The milk needs to be heated, and the butter must be melted, and all this must be added to the yolks while whipping. This gives pancakes a creamy flavor.

Video: how to cook Japanese pancakes

As you can see, making Japanese pancakes is not difficult at all. Try it once and the whole family will ask for these pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Enjoy your meal!