Pancakes

By Alex Wardall

Pancakes: great with sugar, excellent with jam, and supreme with golden syrup. But this year why not try something different, or simply use up extras, by making savoury pancakes.

Easy One-Cup Pancakes

Ingredients:

• Plain Flour
• Milk
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg

Method

Crack the egg into a bowl.

Fill a mug with flour and add it to the bowl. Then using the same mug fill it with milk and add to the flour. It can be any mug, or glass, just simply use the same one for the flour and milk.

Whisk it together using a whisk or fork.

Heat a pan on the hob, add a knob of butter and let it melt. Pour in a spoonful of batter to the hot pan, swirl the batter to coat the pan equally and let it cook. Small bubbles will form on the surface of the pancake when it’s ready to be flipped over and cooked on the other side. Continue with the rest of the batter.

Pancake Tortellini

Ingredients:

• 1 onion
• Mincemeat (beef or lamb)
• 1 Oxo cube or 1 tbs Bisto
• x2 Tinned Tomatoes
• x1 tin of cannellini or Kidney beans (optional, but great)
• Pancakes (4 pancakes will make a filling meal for one)
• Spinach
• x1 jar of passata (like tomato purée, and available in all supermarkets)
• Chedder cheese, grated

Preheat oven to 180-200 degrees.

Gently fry the onion in oil in a roomy pan for a couple of minutes.

Add the mincemeat and cook, stirring.

Crumble in the stock cube/ Bisto.

Add the tinned tomatoes and the cannellini or kidney beans.

At this stage chuck in any sauces/ or extras that you normally would in your Bolognese sauce- such as a squirt of ketchup, HP or mushrooms.

Once the filling is cooked, let it cool slightly.

Take one pancake and lay it flat. Spoon a large spoonful down the pancake in a line slightly to one side. Roll up the pancake carefully into a tube and place this into a baking dish.

Repeat and continue laying each pancake tube tightly alongside each other.

Sprinkle over the spinach.

Pour over the passata, and top with the grated cheese.

Cook for about 30 minutes until the cheese is melted and a browning.