Chickpea pancakes recipe
These chickpea pancakes are best served with a savoury topping. My personal topping of choice is a fresh salad of avocado, cherry tomatoes, rocket leaves or lamb's lettuce, seasoned with olive or rapeseed oil, salt, pepper and a little bit of lemon/lime juice. A spoonful of natural yoghurt on the side works well with this. Note: If you prefer to serve your chickpea flour pancakes plain, just leave out the onion, chili and coriander leaves from the recipe below. Yotam Ottolenghi serves his plain chickpea pancakes with this tasty spiced aubergine and coriander topping.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 200 g chickpea flour
- 4 g dried yeast
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 small egg beaten
- 200 g water
- 1/2 onion finely chopped
- 1/2 fresh chili (green or red) finely chopped
- Fresh coriander leaves a few sprigs, finely chopped
Instructions
How to make chickpea pancakes
- Combine the chickpea flour, yeast and salt in a bowl.
- Add the beaten egg and the water.
- Add the chopped onion, chili and coriander leaves and combine well.
- Cover and set aside for an hour, until nice and frothy.
- Make the pancakes in a non-stick frying pan by heating up oil (I use a silicone brush to distribute a layer of oil evenly across the frying pan surface area). Use 3 tbsp of batter per pancake.
- Serve immediately.