Chebab ( Emirati Pancakes) With Date Syrup | Emirati Breakfast Recipes
 
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Chebab is a traditional Emirati breakfast had with dates syrup. These yeasted pancakes are perfect breakfast to relish.
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Recipe type: Breakfast Recipe
Cuisine: Emirati Cuisine
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • All-purpose Flour - 2 cups
  • Non- fat Milk pd - 2 tbsp
  • Active Dry Yeast -1 tsp
  • Sugar - ¼ cup
  • Warm Water - 3 cups( or less depending on the consistency)
  • Cardamom pd - ½ tsp
  • Saffron - Few strands soaked in warm water.
  • Baking soda - 1
  • Salt a pinch
  • Egg replacer -3 tsp (mixed in 4 tbsp warm water)
  • Oil or ghee - as needed to make the pancakes.
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl sieve the flour, baking pd and milk powder.
  2. Add yeast, sugar, salt, cardamom pd and mix them well.
  3. Add the wet ingredients to them saffron syrup and Egg replacer mix.
  4. Mix them well and add water little by little to make the pancake batter.
  5. The batter must be not too thick like our normal pancakes nor thin like dosa batter.
  6. Cover and keep it in a warm place for the yeast to react for 1 hour 30 minutes.
  7. After 1½ hour the batter will rise and get fermented.
  8. Heat a tawa or a pan, Mix the fermented batter well.
  9. Once the tawa is hot , grease it with ghee or oil and pour in a ladle of batter and gently rotate the ladle on the batter clockwise like we do for dosa.
  10. Cook on one side once lightly browned flip and cook the other side and transfer them to a plate.
  11. Do the same for the rest of the batter.
  12. Enjoy this soft pancake with dates syrup or cream cheese or Nutella
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/chebab-emirati-pancakes-with-date-syrup-emirati-breakfast-recipes.html