Pumpkin Ratatouille Pancake - Friday evening little love

Pumpkin Ratatouille Pancake - Friday evening little love

Friday evening it is. I decide to curl up in front of TV with DD watching Ratatouille. Happy faces. TV screen and my DD’s company – together they make me feel a little less lonely on a Friday night. Then came scores and scores of recipes, cooking, French recipes are after all French to me. Bah! It all made my bong belly think “Wow Ratatouille, I didn’t know they made them like that.”. Hunger came calling next.

“Ma – Khide” , the French cooking and the bong kitchen inspired a cross connection. Then the pancake was born. The common thread was the pumpkin and flour, both of which were aplenty in my pantry as well as on TV.Time to roll up the sleeves to breathe life into the Pumpkin Pancake or shall I call it my ‘Pumpkin Ratatouille Pancake’?

Pumpkin Ratatouille Pancake

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour
3 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
¼ cup  sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 tsp vanilla
Oil as required

Directions:

Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl. Mix all wet ingredients. Keep the milk aside .Add the wet and dry ingredients, and add milk slowly till the consistency is right.  Mix all till there are no lumps.

To  make the pumpkin puree

Steam 250 gms chopped pumpkin. Cool. Add 1/2 cup milk and puree in a mixer.

Process

Heat oil in  a pan, pour a ladle. Spread the mixture evenly. You will soon see some steams being let out from the little holes of the pancake. Time to flip. You are done when the both sides are lightly browned.

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