How to Feed a Family: Corn pancakes

BT Toronto | posted Tuesday, Sep 10th, 2013

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How to Feed a Family: Corn pancakes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen corn
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 ½ cups cornmeal
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• 1tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1tsp salt
• 1tsp sugar
• 4 scallions trimmed and chopped from white to beginning of green

Method:

1. Pour frozen corn into small bowl and set aside to thaw. Separate the eggs and whip up whites into soft peaks
2. In another bowl, mix the egg yolks with buttermilk and oil
3. In yet another bowl, mix together cornmeal, flour, baking soda, baking pwdr,salt and sugar.
4. Add the egg yolk mixture to dry ingredients and stir to combine. Stir in thawed corn and scallions. Gently fold in the egg whites. Allow batter to stand for 10 min before cooking.
5. Heat small amount of vegetable oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Pour ¼ cup of batter for each pancake in to hot pan, allow bubbles to form along the edges of the pancakes, flip and cook for a couple of minutes. Serve with tzatziki and salsa.

Courtesy Ceri Marsh and Laura Keogh, www.sweetpotatochronicles.com