Sere Bites: Thin Pancake Recipe

I love love pancakes especially the thin ones and not drenched in oil. Here is one that is Easy and healthy. (For savoury food)

Ingredients

2 cups of all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup of milk
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
100g of melted margarine
A pinch of cumin seeds
1/4 cup of sugar

Let's Cook

• Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in another.
• Add the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and and stir,
• Pour in warm water and mix to your desired thinness.
• Heat a skillet, add a small amount of cooking oil and rub the surface and add the pancake batter and spread around the skillet.
• Flip on the other side and add some oil if its stick.
• When the pancakes are brown, they are ready :-)
• Repeat the process until all the batter is done.

You can have it with spicy stew or mince meat

Sere Bites Doughnut without the Hole

This is a combination of doughnut and swahili bun, aka Mandazi/Mahambri. I made them in Ramadhan and was a hit :)

Ingredients

• 2 kg All purpose baking flour
• 4 eggs
• 250g of margarine
• 500g sugar
• 1/4 cup of yogurt
• 2 teaspoons instant yeast
• Green Cardamom (iliki) crushed, the fresh cardamon is green and has a stronger scent.
• warm water

Kneading

• In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, cardamon and yeast. Add melted margarine and mix well (mixture should look like breadcrumbs)
• Add the yogurt and eggs, mix and gradually add water and start kneading. DO NOT KNEAD FOR MORE THAN 10 MIN so that the doughnuts without the hole won't be tough.
• Cover with a moist cloth for 1 hour or until you finish cleaning the house :)

Cut and Fry

• You can use any cutter to design your doughnut without a hole, but i used the a glass to cut them out.
• Take a handful of the dough, flatten on a flat clean surface, flatten to 1/2 an inch and cut them out.
• Place the cut out on a flour dusted surface and repeat the process on the remaining dough.
• Deep fry until brown.

Serve while warm with Masala tea or you can wait it cool and dust icing sugar and serve with chilled ginger juice.