German
Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes)
Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) is German home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1.25 cups whole milk
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp butter, for the pan
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar, for dusting
How to cook it
- Whisk together the flour, eggs, milk, salt, and sugar in a bowl until smooth.
- Let the batter rest for 10 minutes.
- Melt a little butter in a wide skillet over medium heat and pour in a thin layer of batter, tilting the pan to spread it evenly.
- Cook for 2 minutes, until the edges lift and the underside is golden, then flip and cook for 1 minute more.
- Stack the pancakes as they finish, adding a little more butter to the pan between each one.
- Dust with powdered sugar, add a squeeze of lemon, and serve warm.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | Yes | Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Egg, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on flour, egg, and milk.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from Germany.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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