Even if your morning cravings lean more salty than sweet, you can still enjoy a stack of hot, fluffy pancakes for breakfast. Ham, leeks, cheese and even quinoa give these six pancake recipes a savory twist.
Savory pancakes would make an unusual addition to a weekend brunch, or a satisfying weekday breakfast if you made the batter the night before. A few of these recipes are even hearty enough to stand in for dinner.
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ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
• Dill Pancakes with Country Ham and Cheese at Fine Cooking
• Cottage Cheese & Cauliflower Pancakes at 101 Cookbooks
• Savory Leek Pancake with Smoked Gouda at Big Girls Small Kitchen
• Quinoa Cakes with Eggplant-Tomato Ragù and Smoked Mozzarella at Gourmet
Do you ever make savory pancakes?
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Ooh, savory pancakes are my favorite things. I love crepes, socca, injera, roti, tortilla...all of those pancake-into-flatbread meals.
I have a recipe for cheater's chickpea crepes that's a lot easier to work with than traditional socca, and I've filled it with all sorts of things, including chard, pecans and ricotta.
I even invented my own savory pancake, a yeasted semolina version. It's very nice! You make it on a griddle, and it becomes a bit like injera, but crispier on the outside.
I like roll-up bacon and spinach pancakes for dinner. But I'm not yet sure about fluffy ones as a meal. It just seems odd.
Those quinoa cakes sound good. Thanks!
sugar as the first thing in the morning is not good for our health....cool that Kitchn is featuring such posts
I don't like sweets in general and so pancakes are not yummy to me. I always wished there would be a savory pancake. This is awesome.
I feel like I remember hearing that pancakes are generally consumed as a savory dinner food in Australia... That said, I'll take mine plain still!
i have been seriously craving savory pancakes lately.. thank you!
During the summer I make these basil corn pancakes and serve them with chive butter and jalepeno black beans: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/corn_basil_cakes.html
Damn I can't wait for summer produce!