Delicious gluten free pancakes flavoured with ginger and served with melting cinnamon butter are a dream to cook direct on the ESSE hotplate. A real treat for the festive season!
Using buckwheat flour gives them a delicious nutty flavour, they are more nutritious and naturally gluten free. As there is no gluten, you don’t have to rest the mixture before baking them and I find them easier and quicker to cook.
Ingredients:
- 100g buckwheat flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 large egg
- 150ml milk
- 2 heaped teaspoons ground ginger
- 3 bulbs stem ginger, finely chopped, plus a tablespoon of ginger syrup from the jar
For the cinnamon butter:
- 75g butter, softened
- 50g light muscovado sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon powder
Method
For the cinnamon butter, simply beat the butter, sugar and cinnamon together until soft and spreadable.
To make the pancakes: Place the buckwheat flour and baking powder into a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Whisk the egg and milk together in a jug, then pour into the bowl and whisk for a few minutes until you make a smooth thick batter. Then stir in the stem ginger/syrup and ground ginger. Pour into a jug. Heat the hotplate (the dial at 12 o’clock) and when hot pour a little of the batter to make small pancakes and cook for a minute or two until they puff up and are set. Then turn them over and cook the second side. Serve the pancakes spread with a little of the cinnamon butter or stack the warm pancakes and spoon the butter over the top and let it melt over them!
About Philippa Vine
Philippa Vine is a cookery tutor, food writer, and passionate advocate for British seasonal cooking. Based on her working farm in Arlington, East Sussex, she showcases the warmth and versatility of ESSE Range Cookers in her farmhouse kitchen. A long-time ESSE collaborator and former Farmers Weekly columnist of 12 years, Philippa champions honest, homegrown ingredients through her cookery courses, product development work, and seasonal recipes featured on esse.com and @ESSE1854. Follow her @philippavinecooking.
