Ranch eggs with sourdough toast

Ingredients

• 100 g bacon lardons
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 red pepper, seeds removed, finely chopped
• 1 green pepper, seeds removed, finely chopped
• 1 courgette, finely chopped
• 8 cherry tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 small Thai bird's eye chillies, finely chopped
• 1 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2-3 tbsp butter
• 4 eggs
• olive oil
• 4 slices sourdough bread
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves
• hot chilli sauce, to taste

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. In a frying pan, fry the bacon until crisp. Add the onion, red and green peppers, courgette, tomatoes, chilli and garlic and cook for 1 minute.

2. Grease a baking tray with butter and sit four 10cm chefs’ rings on it. Spoon the fried vegetables into the rings. Make a well in the centre of each ring of vegetables, add a small knob of butter and crack an egg into each. Cover with foil and bake for 3 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, put a griddle pan over a medium heat. Cut 10cm diameter circles out of the bread, brush them with oil and griddle for 2 minutes on each side.

4. Put the griddled bread on serving plates and top each toast with a ring of egg and vegetables. Remove the ring, garnish with the coriander and drizzle with hot chilli sauce.

This recipe is by Simon Rimmer. Yummy!

Coconut pancakes

By Darlene Schmidt

Ingredients:

1 can coconut milk (400 ml)

1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

2 eggs

1+1/2 tbsp white sugar

2 tbsp coconut oil OR butter, melted

1 cup all-purpose flour

3 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

oil for frying

For coconut syrup:

1/3 can  coconut milk

1/4 cup maple syrup

Preparation:

In a medium size mixing bowl, combine the can of coconut milk with the shredded coconut. Set aside.

In a smaller bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the sugar then melted butter, and whisk again until light and fluffy.

Add the egg mixture to the coconut milk mixture, stirring well to combine.

In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Now add the wet coconut-egg mixture to the dry flour mixture, stirring well to combine.

Heat a frying pan or flat-bottomed wok over high heat for 30 seconds (use a pan with a thick base, if you have one). Reduce heat to medium for another 30 seconds. Add 1 Tbsp. oil and swirl around, then ladle about 1/4 cup pancake batter (for large pancakes) into the middle of the pan. Jiggle the pan a little or tilt to spread the batter out (if needed).

When surface around is covered with bubbles, flip and cook the other side. Always add more oil when frying the next batch, or it may stick. Also, you may need to lower the heat as you go, or the pan might become too hot and burn your pancakes before they're cooked. Medium-low heat is best once the pan is good and hot.

To Make the Coconut Syrup simply combine the coconut milk and syrup, stirring well. 

Purūs Blyneliai

2 dideli kiaušiniai
2 puodeliai (340 g) miltų
2 arb.š. kepimo miltelių
1 arb.š. sodos
60 g sviesto, lydyto
1/2 puodelio (160g) grietinės
1 3/4 puodelio (460 g) pasukų
4 valg.š. (120 g) cukraus
1 arb.š. druskos
1 arb.š. vanilės esencijos (galima naudoti romo)

Dideliame dubenyje sumaišyti miltus, kepimo miltelius, sodą, cukrų ir druską.

 

Kitame dubenyje išplakti kiaušinius su ištirpintu sviestu, grietine, pasukomis ir vanilės esencija.

 

Plakinį supilti į miltų mišinį ir gerai išmaišyti, kol tešla taps vientisa. Tešla turi būti tiršta!
   

Leisti paruoštai tešlai pastovėti kambario temperatūroje 5 min., tada išmaišyti dar kartą.
   

Dėti maždaug po 1/4 puodelio tešlos (labai patogu naudotis tiesiog vidutinio dydžio samčiu) į vidutinio karštumo keptuvę. Kepti, kol gražiai parunda, tuomet atsargiai apversti, ir taip pat apkepti kitą pusę.
 

Patiekti su mėgstamais priedais, cukraus pudra, vyšnių uogiene. Na fantazuoite kaip išmanot :)

Banana Pancakes with Maple Syrup

Makes 6-8 pancakes


Ingredients

1 Cup Flour
1 Egg
1 tsp Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Cup Mashed Banana
1 1/4 Cup Milk

Put the first 6 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Slowly add milk and mix thoroughly with a whisk but do not over mix. There should be some small lumps of flour.
Heat a griddle or a large frying pan. Make sure to use a pan spray even if your pan is non-stick. Use a 1/4 cup measuring spoon for the pancake batter. This makes more consistent and even size pancakes. Cook on medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. If it browns too fast, make sure to turn down the heat or else the pancake will be raw in the middle.
Serve with maple syrup or a syrup of your choice. You can also add crushed walnuts into the batter :) Enjoy!


Today I made some pancakes for breakfast. I didn't have any bananas so made plain pancakes with lemon and maple syrup.
Here's the result: