Easy Eggless pancakes with tips for variations

Pancakes

Pancakes are excellent breakfast or even dessert option for the sweet tooth.

Making fluffy pancakes  is just a small recipe away. We will go about  the different variations in the same recipe.

Basic Recipe for fluffy eggless pancakes:

Self Raising flour : 1 cup
Salt                        :  1/2 tsp  
Sugar                     : 1 tbsp
Milk                       : 3/4 cup
Oil                          : 1 tbsp
Vanilla essence    : 1 tsp

Tip:

If self raising flour is not available. Replace with same measure of  All purpose flour  and a tbsp of Baking powder.

Method:

Mix all dry ingredients. Then add all wet ingredients  .Mix thoroughly without any lumps. If the batter seems to be thick, add a little more milk to lighten it.

Heat a pan or a dosa tava. When its really hot , just switch off the stove and let it to cool.

Reheat the pan. Add some butter ,  and pour a big ladle of batter on the stove.

Cover with a lid and cook for 2 minutes. When the top surface is cooked, use  a toothpick to check if the pancake is cooked entirely .

Then take the pancake from the pan and repeat the same steps for more pancakes.

You can also make 2-3 mini pancakes at a time .

Variation 1: Egg pancakes.

Please add 1 egg for 1.5 cups flour.Make the batter and continue.

Variation 2 : Chocolate/Nutella  stuffed Pancakes.

Pour a thin pancake, then add some chocolate chips/Nutella  on the pancake and cover the pancakes with more batter.

Variation 3: Carrot Pancakes

Add ½ cup some grated carrots , 1 tsp cinnamon , ¼ cup chopped walnuts to batter  and make pancakes.

Variation 4 : Apple Pancakes

Add ½ cup some grated apple , 1 tsp cinnamon to batter  and make pancakes.

Variation 5: Banana Pancakes

Add 1 big mashed overripe  bananas to the batter.

Variation 6: Red Velvet Pancakes

Cook beetroots and make a puree .Add ½ cup puree  to the batter.

Variation 7: Whole Wheat Pancakes.

You can replace a part or full  of the All purpose flour  with  Whole wheat flour or  other millet flour  like  Ragi flour  (finger millet ) , oats flour.

Serving instructions:

Serve pancakes with  vanilla syrup or Maple syrup, fruits, cream cheese, fruit jam.

Recipe for Vanilla syrup  below.

Make a sugar syrup with 1 cup sugar and ½ cup water. Boil sugar and water together till the sugar melts and the syrup thickens. Add 3-4 drops of vanilla essence. Any fruit jam that is not solid by nature but soft can be added to the syrup to add some flavor. I add some fig jam to the syrup.