Photo by Judith Hausman
Broccoli di rabe pancakes make for a quick vegetarian dinner .
Potato pancakes with horseradish root are a annual tradition , and Korean - stylescallionpancakes , brush with sesame crude oil , are a restaurant favorite . Recently , I fooled around and come up with broccoli di rabe griddlecake , which turned out great . We had ruthlessly harvested most of our 2d crop of this tough bitter green , and I had trimmed and cooked a Brobdingnagian potful withgarlicand Olea europaea oil color to get the mess of greens down to a manageable amount .
In cooler weather , I ’d add up sausages and maybe potatoes to the Brassica oleracea italica di rabe , but I was reckon for a really fast vegetarian dinner . The flapcake would actually make a fairly good barbecue side dish , too . I begin with the recipe for savory Bisquick - establish zucchini pancakes I ’ve made many times . I know — a mix ? But it ’s summer , and pancake intermixture made this tight . Whole - pale yellow versions exist , or you may add a little Indian meal to the batter for character .
The trick with the Brassica oleracea italica di rabe pancakes , whether grated summer squash or greens , is to press out special liquid well so the cooked vegetable are quite wry . I dried this tidy sum out in the cooking and also chopped it further before total it to the slugger . If the resulting batsman is just too dry or thick , thin it with a slight milk . That wo n’t suffer a thing .
I continue this experiment simpleton , using some Parmesan in the batter and do the hotcakes off the griddle with a smear of fresh Capricorn cheese . You could certainly try other cheeses ( Blue ? Asiago ? More Parmesan ? ) and add , say , half a diced hot pepper or some carmine pepper flakes or oregano . I ’d like to try out the Brassica oleracea italica di rabe pancakes with sautéed onions and mushroom cloud with tonic herbs , too . Chopped basil or mint are perfect with the delicately- flavour squash variation .
In this time of year , a tomato salad seemed the obvious backup .
Broccoli di Rabe griddlecake
INGREDIENTS
PREPARATION
conflate all ingredients well , reduce the mix further with a little milk if necessary . ignite a griddle or fry pan and surface with a tenuous layer of olive oil color . Spoon the hitter onto the hot griddle , forming pancakes about 4 inch across . When the surface burp , wrench the pancakes . Add and heat up more crude as often as necessary for the rest . Serve with goat cheese or other tall mallow .
yield about a 12 hotcake .
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