A Pancake By Other Name - Kueh Dadar / Ketayap (Nyonya Pandan Pancakes With Palm Sugar And Coconut Filling)
Sometime I believe the planet is unfair. How come pancake day always falls on the Tuesday? Uhm. before you begin, which was the rhetorical question. The final factor I want at this time is really a lecture around the fact behind this tragic arrangement. Will the world not realized there are people much like me who wake up early each morning for work? And when i state early, I meant at 5.30 each morning. In those days each morning, the final factor on my small mind is going to be sifting flour and making my pancake batter, not to mention flipping it. I merely don't have time! And yet, I actually do love pancakes which poses a continuous dilemma.
Cold pancakes will never be really that nice, so prepping them yesterday is totally unthinkable. It's at occasions such as these that If only there exists a well outfitted kitchen at work. But no. not again! All we've are a few run lower industrial microwaves that are fine if you wish to zap your packed lunch (mmm. something smells burnt) but try making pancakes with such (now that's a concept) is nearly impossible. Trust me, I have attempted. And then any attempt in reheating pre-made pancakes during these microwaves only will lead to pancakes so soft that you'll be working you way through them come Easter time time.
Therefore the next best factor is. my nan's ace in the hole - Nyonya Kueh Dadar (also referred to as Kueh Ketayap). Initially glance may possibly not seem like your conventional pancakes but on closer inspection, all of the usual suspects which make great pancakes exist.
You've deliciously light pancakes that you simply produced by flipping (mind the ceiling!) - Tick!
Sugary syrup by means of the palm sugar infused grated/dessicated coconut filling - Tick! Tick!
And finally, this is often produced in advance and eaten cold the very next day - Tick! Tick! Tick!
Well, I am unsure in regards to you, pancakes or no pancakes, here it is! Give it a try. you realize you need to.
Ingredients (Makes 8-10 )
For that filling:
300g gula melaka (palm sugar)
1 tablespoons of caster sugar
350ml coconut milk
4 pandan leaves, tied right into a knot
250g desiccated coconut
For that pandan liquid:
20 pandan leaves
50ml water
For that pandan pancakes:
250g plain flour
1 tablespoons of caster sugar
1 tablespoons of tapioca flour (optional but provides you with an attractive bouncy pancakes)
1 teaspoon salt
4 whole the opportunity eggs. gently beaten
450ml coconut milk
natural eco-friendly food colouring, optional
Method
Put the gula melaka, sugar, coconut milk and knotted pandan leaves inside a pan gradually provide the boil. Simmer for five minutes, before the sugars dissolve. Switch off heat and add some desiccated coconut. Toss to combine well. Leave to awesome before discarding the pandan leaves. Set this aside not less than one hour or more suitable overnight therefore the coconut can absorb all of the liquid and turn moist clumps.
For that pandan liquid, blitz the pandan leaves and water inside a blender. Go through a sieve to get rid of pandan fibres. Put aside.
Sift the flour right into a large mixing bowl. Add the tapioca flour, salt and sugar. Create a well within the center and whisk within the eggs, just a little at any given time, before flowing within the coconut milk, pandan liquid and eco-friendly colouring, if using. Whisk to some smooth batter. Rest the batter for half an hour before frying.
To organize the pancakes, heat a nonstick fry pan, about 20cm across, over medium-low heat. Pour inside a ladleful of batter and tilt the pan or utilizing a spatula to start the batter thinly over the pan. Once small craters start developing at first glance, switch the pancake over and prepare for any 30 second, until prepare through. Remove in the pan and repeat with all of those other batter.
To roll the kueh dadar, lay a pancake on the work surface. Fill the center with 1-2 tablespoon from the filling. Fold the low 1 / 2 of the pancake over, the fold the left side over. then your right. Roll-up to create a cigar shape. (see pics below). Repeat with all of those other pancakes and filling.
Serve preferably at the time however this may also keep, if wrap well, for a couple of days.