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- Welcome to Oat Cuisine with GCN.
This is a recipe for savory spinach pancakes
made of surprise, surprise, oats.
Let's get crackin'.
So savory spinach pancakes.
What do we need?
We need some oats, two eggs, 50 grams of spinach,
baking powder, some lowfat milk, squeeze of lemon juice.
And then to layer the pancakes we're gonna need mushrooms.
We're gonna need a lowfat cheese,
which I'll talk about in a moment.
And then to garnish, we're gonna need some cherry tomatoes
and maybe a little bit of balsamic and some salad.
Now obviously, I've got a little cheeky headstart here
by pre-chopping 250 grams of mushrooms,
weighing out 50 grams of spinach,
weighing out my 150 grams of oats and my 300 mils of milk.
So pretty much ready to go.
First thing you wanna do, is start cooking your mushrooms.
While the mushrooms are cooking
is a great time to make your batter.
So, weigh out 50 grams of spinach,
add in the juice of half a lemon,
which is about one to two tablespoonful.
150 grams of oats.
Trying not to lose them, oh no.
Let me chuck the rest in,
which is 300 mils of milk, two eggs,
one teaspoon of salt, and three teaspoons of baking powder.
So voila, easy peasy.
Just bung the lid on and blend the hell out of it.
If you don't have a cool blender like this
then use a handheld blender or if you have no blender at all,
just use oatmeal flour.
Great, now we wanna blend the pancake batter
until it's smooth so that there are no lumps of oats.
Before you start frying your gloriously green pancakes,
it's a good idea to line up the things
you are gonna stack the pancakes with so you're ready to go.
So you need two plates,
you need your mushrooms which are now cooked,
and you need your cheese.
Now I'm gonna use Quark.
It's a low fat cream cheese.
Low fat and high protein.
You could also use soft goat's cheese or cream cheese.
But just be aware that,
depending on which cheese you use,
there might be more fat in the recipe.
Great, so we've got pan up to temperature.
Got one calorie cooking spray.
I'm gonna cook each pancake is gonna be
about two tablespoons.
Two generous tablespoons, I would say,
of the pancake batter.
Cook it for about two to three minutes on the first side.
And about one minute on the second side.
Cooking time of course will depend a bit
on the temperature of your hob and your frying pan,
and everything else,
but roughly look for when it turns a little bit golden
and it's firm enough to flip over.
They must be golden on both sides.
Now, bear in mind that these pancakes
are nice thick pancakes,
they're not skinny crepes,
so don't expect them to spread out too much,
and, in fact, don't let them spread out too much.
They're also a quite glorious shade of green.
Now we're gonna stack these pancakes up on two plates,
so while each pancake is cooking,
you wanna put the layers in between.
So, on each pancake,
gonna put about a teaspoonful of your soft cheese,
doesn't have to be too neat
because no one's gonna see this bit,
and a few cooked mushrooms.
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Number three.
As the pancake stack gets higher,
you need to be a little bit more careful
so it doesn't topple over.
Number four.
And my last one.
Okie dokie.
Whoa, last one.
So with two generous tablespoons of batter
for each pancake,
you should end up with four or five pancakes on each plate,
or in this case, five and four, but it's alright.
We'll argue about who gets the bigger portion later.
Top off your pancake stack with bit more cheese,
spread it around,
and the last of the mushrooms.
Brilliant.
So we've got our pancake stack,
we're gonna top it off
with the very last bit of the cheese, yum,
and then garnish time, to make it look pretty.
Little bit of rocket,
or maybe some spinach if you've got any left over,
maybe a few sprigs on top.
Did I mention that I love rocket?
It is so delicious, mmmm.
And a few cherry tomatoes,
because cherry tomatoes are also delicious,
and also they look great against the green and white
of the pancakes and cheese.
I would garnish this with maybe a bit more salt,
if you like a little salt,
black pepper, chili flakes, and a drizzle of balsamic.
You could use balsamic glaze if you like things sweet.
Okie doke, here goes.
This is gonna be one of the weirdest ways
I have ever eaten porridge.
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Mmmmm.
Mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
Mmmmm mmm mmm mmm mmmm.
That was a win.
You can make almost infinite variations on this.
You could use, for example, tomatoes, slow-cooked tomatoes,
mozzarella, cottage cheese.
Basically, you can put any flavors you like
with these spinach pancakes.
I think they're pretty tasty.
If you like the recipe, give it a thumbs up.
If you'd like to check out some other recipes
in this Oat Cuisine series,
you could also check out the sweeter version
which is these lemon and blueberry pancakes.
Mmmm, I love rocket.
Oh, (beep).
It's a good thing I'm wearing this apron, eh?
You can get this apron, by the way,
in the GCN shop.