How to Cook Gingerbread Pancakes

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 15 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Ingredients needed to make Gingerbread Pancakes:

• 8 oz self raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 drops vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• Zest of ½ lemon, finely grated
• ½ pint semi-skimmed milk
• 12 Parma ham slices
• 3 tbsp soft light brown sugar
• 4 tbsp sunflower oil

For serving:

• 3 ½ fl oz sour cream
• 3 ½ fl oz maple syrup

Cooking instructions for Gingerbread Pancakes:

• Warm up your oven to 225 degrees F.
• Place the flour in a large bowl and stir in baking powder, salt, sugar as well as a dash of ground spices until just combined.
• Make a depression in the middle with your fingers and sprinkle the grated lemon zest into it.
• Pour the vanilla extract and milk into the well, few splashes of the latter from time to time, while stirring it into the mixture until they blend together to form a smooth batter.
• Crack the egg into it and beat it into the batter until fully incorporated.
• Drizzle some of the oil in a large skillet and heat it over moderate flame and toss the Parma ham slices into it.
• Fry each side for a couple of minutes and transfer them into a paper towel-lined plate, with th help of tongs; keep warm until the pancakes are ready.
• Lower the heat of to low and pour in more oil into it.
• Ladle 1/12 of the batter and spread it into 3 ¼’’ wide circle, using the back of the ladle.
• Cook one side for a couple of minutes or until the base turns golden and flip it over to cook the other side for another 2 minutes.
• Slide it onto a baking dish and pop it into a hot oven to keep warm until all the pancakes are cooked.
• Make 11 more pancakes until all the batter is used up and place 3 of them in each serving plate.
• Stack the 3 Parma ham slices on top of each serving and drizzle the maple syrup over them.
• Place a dollop of sour cream on top and serve warm.

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