Erbe in cucina - Ricetta: Pancakes al basilico cannella

Recipe: Cinnamon Basil Pancakes
Sugar High Fridays

October 22, 2009

My basil plants died a few weeks ago, but cinnamon basil is still alive, and now it's blooming too.
I love to touch and smell its leaves, and I use them in sweet recipes like this.
If you don't have cinnamon basil, don't give up because this recipe is worth trying: use some regular basil leaves and half teaspoon of cinnamon instead.

Oat flakes make these pancakes taste more rustic. I toasted them a few minutes, to enhance their flavour. Don't burn them, they should look like these after you toast them.

Cinnamon Basil Pancakes

Ingredients
Makes four pancakes:
50g oatmeal
50g all-purpouse flour
1 egg
250ml milk
1 tsp baking powder
10 cinnamon basil leaves

Directions
Toast the oatmeal for five minutes, then mince them with a food processor.
Beat the egg with the milk and the baking powder, then add the oatmeal flour, the all-purpouse flour and the basil leaves cut into stripes.
Heat a pancakes pan and pour one quarter of the oatmeal mixture in the pan. Spread it out.

You can garnish the pancake with a basil leaf before turning it.
Cook the other side for one minute and repeat for the other three pancakes.
Serve with chestnut honey, maple syrup or jam of your choice.

This is my contribution for Sugar High Fridays, a monthly event handled by The Domestic Goddess, this month hosted by Not Derby Pie who chose the theme 'Toasted!'.

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Author: Joanne (URL) 23/10/2009 These are so intriguing to me! I have never heard of cinnamon basil. Does it taste the same as regular basil?
Author: Graziana 24/10/2009 Hi Joanne, cinnamon basil taste as basil with a strong aroma of cinnamon.
Author: Chaya (URL) 13/11/2009 I have never heard of it either. Where does one get cinnamon basil. What a great creation you have here.

Author: Joanne (URL)

23/10/2009

These are so intriguing to me! I have never heard of cinnamon basil. Does it taste the same as regular basil?

Author: Graziana

24/10/2009

Hi Joanne, cinnamon basil taste as basil with a strong aroma of cinnamon.

Author: Chaya (URL)

13/11/2009

I have never heard of it either. Where does one get cinnamon basil. What a great creation you have here.

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