German

Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes)

Name: Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: German
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; 2 eggs; 1.25 cups whole milk; 1 pinch salt; 1 tbsp granulated sugar; 2 tbsp butter, for the pan; 1 lemon, cut into wedges; 2 tbsp powdered sugar, for dusting

Birgit @birgit1978

Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) is German home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

25 min Easy Low sodium Eggetarian Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1.25 cups whole milk
1 pinch salt
1 tbsp granulated sugar
2 tbsp butter, for the pan
1 lemon, cut into wedges
2 tbsp powdered sugar, for dusting

How to cook it

Whisk together the flour, eggs, milk, salt, and sugar in a bowl until smooth.
Let the batter rest for 10 minutes.
Melt a little butter in a wide skillet over medium heat and pour in a thin layer of batter, tilting the pan to spread it evenly.
Cook for 2 minutes, until the edges lift and the underside is golden, then flip and cook for 1 minute more.
Stack the pancakes as they finish, adding a little more butter to the pan between each one.
Dust with powdered sugar, add a squeeze of lemon, and serve warm.

Watch how to cook Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Blumenkohl mit Butterbroeseln (Cauliflower with Browned Butter Crumbs)
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Apfelmus (German Applesauce)
  
  20 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice)
Gluten	Yes	Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham)
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbs: 45 g
Fat: 15 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 13 g
Sodium: 140 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pfannkuchen (German Pancakes) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.