Learn how to make giant fluffy vegan pancakes covered in a rich chocolate sauce, New-York style, with vegan fine-dining chef Zineb Hattab.
Difficulty
Medium
Total Time
35MIN
Ingredients
Vanilla pods: 2
Almond milk: 25g
Apple cider vinegar: 25g
Baking powder: 35g
All purpose flour: 440g
Brown sugar: 70g
Salt: 6g
Seed oil
Dark chocolate pearls: 100g, 68%
Almond milk: 100g
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Zineb Hattab - executive chef, and owner of vegan fine-dining restaurant Kle in Zurich, Switzerland - will teach you all the tips, tricks and techniques required to make giant plant-based pancakes, which she serves at her restaurant in memory of the giant fluffy pancakes she once enjoyed during brunch-time in New York.
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Serves 2
01.
To make the pancakes
Split one of the vanilla pods and carefully remove the beans.
02.
Put the milk in a bowl and spoil it with the apple vinegar to make buttermilk.
03.
Add the vanilla seeds, then the baking powder.
04.
Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt)§ in another bowl.
05.
Mix the dry ingredients into the wet, using a whisk or a stand mixer, until well incorporated and let rest, covered with a towel, for 10-15min. When there are bubbles showing in the batter it's good to use.
06.
Heat some seed oil in a pan, take a ladleful of batter, drop it into the pan and make sure it covers the bottom.
Top tip: at this point you can drop in blueberries, sliced bananas, nuts or peanut butter. Scatter them over the batter and then cover with another ladleful to trap them inside the pancake.
07.
When the bottom of the pancake is golden, flip it over to allow it to cook on both sides.
08.
Put the pancakes on a rack.
09.
To make the chocolate sauce
Heat the milk on low and infuse with a vanilla pod. Switch off before it begins to boil.
10.
Add the chocolate, let it set for a couple of minutes and then mix patiently together.
11.
To finish
Plate the pancake and pour over the chocolate sauce.
