Cooking, Recipes apples
hello my lords, ladies and gentlemenand welcome to nick saraf's foodlog. you might have rightly guessed from my t-shirt.. ..that our european journey has taken usto good of netherlands. fondly known as holland. ah! good old netherlands!famous for its tall people and flat, flat, flat land! and of course! its distinct cuisine which hasa little bit of fish, a little bit of meat, potatoes.. ..sometimes no flavor and sometimesa big burst of flavors. but, there is one particular dutch dishthat really crowns the cuisine of netherlands. and that is, the dutch pancakes.
a very traditional and a typical breakfastfor the dutch people. not to be confused with people from denmarkas most people do! so all over amsterdam there are beautifulpancake houses that i have been to! and there is one particular pancake that i hadfor breakfast in amsterdam once.. ..which i am going to recreate today! and that was,an apple and bacon pancake a beautiful mix of sweet and savory flavors. and with that a traditional dutch hot chocolate. really, you haven't had hot chocolateuntil you have had a dutch hot chocolate.
we use these green granny smith applesthat are nice and sour and not too sweet. they are regularly used in Cooking, Recipes and aresometimes known as Cooking, Recipes apples in many places. so the first thing we are going to do iswe are going to peel, core and slice this apple.. ..into slices like this. so now, we fry up some bacon bits. you put a frying pan on a medium to high flame. put up the bacon bits,let the fat melt off the bacon and cook it. make sure you don't cook your bacon completelybut just wait till all the fat melts.. ..and it's about 3/4 cooked because we are going toput it in the pancake when it's being cooked on the pan..
so it will cook completely then. you don't want your bacon to be overcookedand burnt. when these bacon bits are cooked through your liking,take them off on some absorbent paper and spread them out. i am going to fry these apples in the bacon fatinstead of butter, just the same! so, on a low flame, fry the apples. just like the bacon, don't cook your apple too muchbecause you are going to add it to your pancake again. that's more than done. with the bacon and apples out of the wayit's time to make our basic batter for a dutch pancake. the first thing we do is, break open 2 eggs.
we add about 2 tbsp of caster sugar.. ..and whisk all of it until combined. in this we add about 1 tbsp of butteror maybe 1 and a half and whisk that in. make sure your butter is either softor melted when you add it for the best results. cold butter is not going to mix in so well. now to this, add about 250 gramsof sifted flour. then you add about 1 tsp of baking powder,this is wholly optional. and just a pinch of salt. not too much because the bacon and the appleshave some amount of salt content.
so you don't want to over salt it. now as this forms a paste add about500 ml of milk. if you want it to be lighter and more liquidy,you can always add more milk. but don't add too much milkor it's not going to cook very well. when your batter is fully combined,on a medium flame put out some butter.. ..and cover the whole pan with it. turn the flame down to low and pour not too muchof the pancake batter and spread it throughout the pan.. ..so that a thin pancake is formed but as notas thin as a crepe either! god! the dutch really had issues, didn't they?
when this is on a very low flamewe can sprinkle the bacon.. ..or as some dots too buta whole strip of bacon in there. apple slices... now when it's done,most difficult part is flipping it without breaking it. and there we go. let's put this on. there we go. back it up a bit. and here we go!
ah, that looks beautiful. and now to make somegood popular dutch hot chocolate. for this i have quite a good amount of dark chocolatewhich i am going to melt in this double boiler. so when the chocolate is nice and liquidywe add in equal amount of milk. and keep on stirring the milk and the chocolatetogether till all of it's nice and combined. this of course doesn't need any sugarbecause the chocolate is quite sweet already. but if you do wish to add some sugar to it, then i suggest you get your diabetes checked before hand. and to enhance the taste, add just a pinch of salt. let it dissolve.
and take it off the heat, into a glass. dutch hot chocolate cannot be complete without anice swirl of whipped cream on top. so, i have with me a bowl i had keptin the freezer for sometime. the best result is if you whip the creamin the coldest of bowls or preferably over an ice part. here i have little quantity of whipping cream. nothing less than 33% of fat! now why is that you are going to get anything? just you know...liquid cream you can pour on something. we take a balloon whisk and we whip.
when it reaches stiff peak... there you go! nice and stiff. i am going to put it in a piping bag. then, pipe some nice cream on top of this hot chocolate. and of course, just to go with dutch tradition.. ..sprinkling of cinnamon on top of thiswhipped cream, that's the trick! so what most people love doing is,they wait for the cream to collapse.. ..and then mix it into their hot chocolate to geteven a creamier texture of hot chocolate. so, generally in pancake houses or dutch homes,with pancake, this syrup is served called stroop..
..which is made out of sugar beans which is thick and dark but much like maple syrup. so since we are not really in... we don't have stroop. so, i will be using our beloved maple syrup and give a nice sprinkling and pour a good bit on this pancake. and my lords, ladies and gentlemen,before i get lost in this beautiful beautiful creation.. i have this one thing to say'eet smakelijk!'
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