Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make American pancakes? Prepare the ingredients. Melt the butter in advance. To learn how to melt butter in different ways, follow the link at the end of the recipe. Cool the melted butter.
Step 2:
Take a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients in it. First, sift the flour into a bowl, add sugar, salt and soda. Who likes sweeter, you can increase the amount of sugar in the recipe. But since traditional American pancakes are served with maple syrup or honey, a little sugar is put in the dough. Mix the ingredients well with a spoon or with your hands.
Step 3:
In another bowl, beat the egg. Add milk to it.
Step 4:
Beat the milk-egg mixture well.
Step 5:
Pour the liquid ingredients into a bowl with the dry ones and mix everything well with a fork or whisk until the lumps disappear. Then pour the melted butter into the dough, the main thing is that it is not hot, otherwise the egg in the dough may curdle. Mix the dough well again.
Step 6:
Heat a frying pan on the stove over medium heat. Put a little dough on a preheated dry frying pan (no need to pour oil) with a tablespoon, so much so that the pancakes turn out to be small in size, about like a tea saucer. If the pan is large, you can bake several pancakes at the same time, which will reduce the baking time. When the pancakes are browned on one side, turn them over and fry them on the other until they are ruddy.
Step 7:
Serve pancakes with berry syrup, jam, or as traditional Russian pancakes with sour cream. It turns out very tasty, sweet and fragrant, with a cup of coffee or tea. Simple and fast. Bon appetit!
Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.
It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.
Butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath.
How to melt butter in the microwave?
Cut the butter into small pieces and place it in a special container. To prevent the oil from splashing when heated, cover the oil vessel with a paper towel. The oil should be melted either at the lowest power or in defrosting mode. At first, five seconds will be enough. Next, if the butter has not melted yet, set it again for 5 seconds and start the microwave. Repeat the process several times until the desired result.
How to melt butter in a water bath?
You will need two containers of different diameters. Pour water into a large one and put it on the stove. Place the smaller container on top so that it is submerged in water by about half. Put the sliced butter into it. Under the influence of boiling water, the oil will begin to melt. Stir the oil slightly to speed up the process. As soon as the pieces of oil are completely dissolved, remove the container from the stove.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
