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    Rice Flour Pancakes

    October 22, 2019 by pakistaneats Leave a Comment

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    I only started using rice flour recently after poring through Sarla Razdan's book on Kashmiri cuisine. First with fried squash blossoms and recently, pancakes! I wasn't aware that we had pancakes in the sub-continent till her book. The rice flour pancakes in Razdan's cookbook are very simple: made with a simple batter of rice flour and water, and spiced with black cumin. I saw another variation of them in Sumayya Usmani's book, Mountain Berries and Desert Spice.

    Usmani adapted a version from her friend who belongs to the Northern Areas. She prepares them with a batter of coconut milk, cornflour and water; flavored with sugar and cardamom pods; and topped with cottage cheese, honey and a sprinkling of poppy seeds.

    I adapted Razdan and Usmani's rice flour pancake recipes by incorporating my mother's age-old recipe of butter-milk pancakes. The incorporation of butter-milk and baking soda provides the pancakes with a more desirable, fluffier texture while still retaining the savory, smoky taste of Razdan and Usmani's take. It's definitely a non-traditional recipe but if you enjoy the smoky flavor of black cumin as much as I do, you will definitely love these pancakes. I topped them with some honey but I'm sure they taste great with maple syrup as well.

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    Rice Flour Pancakes

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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast
    Servings 4

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup rice flour
    • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon black cumin seeds slightly toasted
    • 1 teaspoon sugar
    • ½ cup water
    • ½ cup buttermilk
    • 1 tablespoon canola/sunflower/vegetable oil

    Instructions
     

    • Mix rice flour, baking soda, salt, black cumin and sugar in bowl. Beat in water and buttermilk into the dry mixture with an electric mixer till well-blended.
    • Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a non-stick frying pan on medium heat. Once hot, spoon a ladle of the batter on to the pan and cook each side for 2-3 minutes till light brown and cooked through. Remove from heat. Repeat until you have used up all the batter.

    Notes

    The batter should yield about 8 pancakes, roughly 3 ½ inches wide.

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