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Dutch pancakes are bigger and thinner than regular pancakes but so delicious. Would you like to see how you can make traditional Dutch pancakes? Let’s get started!
Dutch Pancakes Ingredients
Traditional Dutch pancakes are so yummy and much larger and thinner than regular American pancakes. You can easily make it from scratch. All you need is:
- Whole wheat flour
- Baking powder
- Eggs
- Milk
- Pinch of salt
You can find all the ingredient amounts and instructions in the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
How To Make Dutch Pancakes
When you make these pancakes, you need a big frying pan or skillet. I have a great nonstick frying pan that has never failed to produce great pancakes or eggs.
Start by adding all the flour to a large mixing bowl then add the baking powder and salt. Whisk the flour mix thoroughly before adding half of the milk into the bowl.
Stir well until you have a lump-free batter. Now add the remainder of the milk slowly. Keep whisking as you continue to add the milk.
Then break an egg and whisk until the egg has totally dissolved in the batter. Repeat for the second egg. Set your batter aside for 5 minutes.
Heat a frying pan until hot and add half a tablespoon of butter. Add a soup spoon of batter to the pan. Swirl the batter in the pan until the whole pan is covered.
Add more pancake batter if the base of the pan is not totally covered. Let the batter sit and bake for about 1 minute per side and take the pancake out of the pan.
Keep warm and serve. Depending on the size of the pan this recipe yields between 12-16 pancakes.
See How To Make Dutch Pancakes
Want to see how easy it is to make this traditional Dutch pancake recipe? Then watch the instructional video in the recipe card below.
Pancake Toppings And Add Ons
You can eat your Dutch pancakes with:
- Powdered sugar
- Sugar syrup
- Apple syrup
- Brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Fruit – you can add banana, apple, berries, or peach. You can even mash your banana or berries and incorporate them into the batter
- Whipped cream
- Bacon or ham – If you like savory you can make them with bacon. Just bake the bacon first and put the pancake batter on top of the bacon
You can even turn it into a pizza. Just use a little more pancake batter in the pan and add vegetables and cheese.
What Makes This Pancake Recipe
During our summer vacations, we would stay in our caravan for three weeks. It was a small caravan with a mini kitchen.
Somehow my father managed to cook up dinner in that little caravan every evening. Every summer the highlight of our vacation would be eating a stack of pancakes.
So, when we were asked what we would like to eat the answer was always the same. Pancakes!!!
Which was quite a task because how do you bake approx. 20 pancakes and keep them warm in such a small caravan?
Keeping them warm was probably the easiest task as the caravan would be like an oven in the Summer.
But making the batter and cooking the pancakes were the real challenge. He managed to make it work every time.
We would eat these pancakes mostly for lunch but also for dinner and even on occasions for breakfast. So, you can eat these any time you want.
So today I’m sharing his recipe for Dutch pancakes or Hollandse pannenkoeken.
How To Store Pancakes
If you are wondering if you can store these pancakes or make them ahead of time? The answer is yes you can.
- Refrigerator – all you need to do is put the pancakes on a plate and let them cool. Then cover it with foil and put it in the fridge.
- Freezer – you can also put them in the freezer wrapped in tin foil. I never roll them up when freezing but you can do this well and put them in a freezer-proof container. Just thaw before using them again.
Best Way To Reheat Pancakes
There are a number of ways to reheat pancakes. If you have frozen pancakes make sure you thaw them first.
- Boiling water – Take a big pot of hot water and put a plate on top of the bowl. Put the pancakes on the plate and cover them with a lid. Let it sit for 10 minutes and your pancakes will be warm
- Oven – Preheat your oven to 400℉/200℃ and wrap the pancakes in tin foil. Put them in for 7-9 minutes and your pancakes will be warm
- Microwave – put the pancakes on a plate cover with foil and put them in the microwave. Warm at 800W for 1 minute and check if the pancakes are warm and extend with another minute
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Traditional Dutch pancakes
These Dutch pancakes are thicker than a crepe and thinner than American pancakes. Serve for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sweet or savory.
Ingredients
- 500 g whole wheat flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 900 ml milk
- 2 large eggs
- Butter or baking product
Instructions
- Put all the flour in a bowl and add the baking powder and salt. Whisk before adding half of the milk into the bowl
- Stir until a lump free batter. Now add the remainder of the milk and keep whisking
- Then stir in the two eggs until you have a smooth batter. Set aside for 5 minutes
- Heat a frying pan and add a knob of butter. Add a soup spoon of batter in the pan. Spread the batter and let it set. Bake for about 1 minute per side
- Keep warm and serve
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 226; Fat: 5.5g; Carbs: 35.8g; Protein: 7.9g;
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