Wheat pancakes with berry sauce

Ellie Krieger prepares easy heart shaped pancakes with berry sauce. Brought to you from www.foodtv.co.uk

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Recipe

Serves 4
Ingredients
105g plain flour
105g whole-wheat flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
250ml skimmed buttermilk
125ml skimmed milk
1 tablespoon honey
¼ teaspoon vanilla
Strawberry sauce, recipe follows
Confectioners' sugar, optional

Preheat oven to 93C. Preheat a large nonstick griddle or skillet over a medium-low flame.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients (flour through salt). In another medium bowl, beat together the eggs, buttermilk, non-fat milk, honey and vanilla. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, mixing only enough to combine them. The batter will be somewhat lumpy.

Use a measuring cup to ladle the batter onto the griddle or skillet. Flip the pancake when the top is bubbling and it is golden brown on the bottom. Then cook until the other side is golden brown. Hold on an oven proof plate in the oven until the entire batch is ready. When all the pancakes are ready, cut them into heart shapes with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Ladle about a third of a cup of the strawberry sauce onto each plate, place pancakes on top and sprinkle with icing sugar, if using.

Strawberry sauce:
450g strawberries, fresh or frozen (unsweetened, thawed)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons maple syrup

Puree strawberries to a chunky puree. Heat them in a small saucepan over a low flame, until they are just warm. Stir in lemon juice and maple syrup.

Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes

Equipment List
Griddle pan
Medium bowl
Ladle
Blender
Whisk

2005, Ellie Krieger, all rights reserved.

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