Thursday, 29 September 2016

Around the World in Pancakes

quote [ For most Americans, the word 'pancake' conjures a stack of fluffy, hot-off-the-griddle flapjacks, a pat of butter slowly melting beneath a rivulet of maple syrup. But pancakes take myriad forms around the world, from delicate French crêpes sprinkled with sugar to spongy, sour Ethiopian injera to chewy-crisp Japanese okonomiyaki, studded with seafood and drizzled with sticky brown sauce and mayo. ]
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[by XregnaR@11:53amGMT]

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midden said @ 12:39pm GMT on 29th Sep [Score:1 Hot Pr0n]
Recently I've been eating black bean pupusas as a staple of my diet. Super easy to make, super cheap, and they provide all the body's necessary amino acids.

dough:
3 cups masa flour
2.5 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil

filling:
black beans
onion
cumin

I make the beans semi-refried, first cooking the onions in a pan with a little olive oil until soft. Then add the beans and cumin and a little water. Simmer for about 10 minutes. Squish about 1/4 of the beans with a fork and mix, then simmer another five minutes or so, or until you reach the consistency you like. I go for lumpy peanut butter. It makes it easier to fill the dough.

I haven't gotten good at the "make a little cup and pinch it off" method of stuffing the pupusas, so I just make pairs of 1/8" disks, about five or six inches in diameter, plop a good sized dollop of beans in the middle of one, then crimp the edges together. Fry in a dry, medium hot cast iron skillet for 3-4 minutes on a side.

I make up a big bowl of masa dough on the weekend and keep it in the fridge and usually cook pupusas fresh, but they reheat fine, and are even good cold.
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:08pm GMT on 29th Sep [Score:1 Hot Pr0n]
M'Semen? Mmm, semen.
Morris Forgot his Password said @ 5:55pm GMT on 29th Sep [Score:1 Classy Pr0n]
I could go for a goat roti right about now
HoZay said @ 6:56pm GMT on 29th Sep
A bit of jalapeno and minced onion in your pancakes is also tasty.
MFDork said[1] @ 10:13pm GMT on 29th Sep
This was way more informative than I was expecting.

Also, everyone should try a traditional injera dish sometime. The little holes or divots in the pancake make them extra absorbent and oh so delicious. At the end of the day, sure, it's just a bunch of random shit on a pancake that you eat with your fingers, but the dining experience is a blast and the flavors are so much different than typical western dishes.

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