APPLE PANCAKES

Identity Card of the Recipe

135 KCal Calories per serving

Ingrediants

150 g of white flour of type 00
600 g (3 medium) of apples
7 g of baking powder
100 ml of milk
60 g of lemon verbena
50 g of sultanas
Half a glass of aniseed liqueur or orange liqueur
Untreated lemon zest
Juice and peel of untreated oranges
1 pinch of salt
60 g (medium one) of eggs
80 g of sugar

For frying

About 500 ml of peanut oil

Materials Needed

Bowl
Scale weighs food
Skimmer
Blotting paper
Mixer
Pot for frying
Food thermometer
Core lever
Chopping board
Knife
Juicer
Sieve
Whip
Lemon grater or row
Plier
Fork

Preparation

Soften the raisins in warm water and leave them to soak for about ten minutes.
Prepare the pancake batter. In a bowl, sift the white flour and add the sugar. Flavor the powder with orange and lemon zest.
Blend the candied fruit to obtain a mince.
Drain the raisins from soaking.
Separately, squeeze the juice of an orange, then add the juice to the flour, adding an egg, milk, a pinch of salt, baking powder, softened raisins, chopped limes and half a glass of liqueur. pleasure (eg aniseed liqueur).

The egg-free alternative
As an alternative to eggs, you can use 60 g of plain or fruit yogurt.
White flour can be replaced with wholemeal flour, and white sugar can give way to cane sugar.

Wash the apples, remove the core and cut them horizontally, so that the slices have a central hole.
Pour the peanut oil into a saucepan and heat it, taking care not to exceed the smoke point: the use of a food thermometer is recommended.
When the oil is ready, dip one slice of apple at a time into the batter, so that it is completely covered with the mixture. Immediately dip the apple into the boiling oil: it is advisable to cook 4-5 apple pancakes at a time, depending on the size of the pan used.
Cook the pancakes for 2 minutes per side: during cooking, it is advisable to turn the pancake with the help of tongs or a fork.
When the apple fritters appear colorful, remove them from the boiling oil and place them on a sheet of absorbent paper. Proceed in this way until you run out of ingredients.
To taste, sprinkle the surface with icing sugar or rub the pancakes in granulated sugar. Consume hot.

Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

These pancakes will drive young and old alike crazy! The beauty is that you can also bake them in the oven: I recommend 180 ° C for about 15 minutes! You can even change the type of fruit: instead of apples, you can use bananas, prunes or even apricots! What will be your favorite pancake?
Also try the baked pancakes!

Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe

Apple Fritters are foods that belong to the dessert group.
They have an average energy intake, mainly provided by carbohydrates, followed by proteins and finally by lipids.
Carbohydrates are mainly simple, unsaturated fatty acids and peptides of high biological value.
Fiber is present in good quantity and cholesterol is significant but not too much.
The Apple Fritters are not suitable for the diet of obese subjects and / or those suffering from metabolic diseases.
They contain gluten and are not allowed in the diet for celiac disease.
They contain lactose and are not suitable for the diet for this type of food intolerance.
They are relevant to the lacto ovo vegetarian philosophy but not to the vegan one.
Estimating that the absorption of oil with frying is at least 10-15g per 100g of food, the average portion as a snack is 50g (65 kcal of pancake + 55 kcal of absorbed oil = 120 kcal).
The nutritional values were calculated using 100 grams of ingredients, without considering the frying oil.