These little Danish filled pancakes can be made with a sweet batter or a savory batter. On Sunday, I started with the savory batter recipe, then folded chopped leftover turkey and some leeks into the batter. For the filling, I used leftover cranberry-orange relish.
These were delicious! (and at 5 points for three, a touch heavy on the WW points, but not nearly as many as Saturday's feast racked up!)
4 comments:
Punkin:
1. What's an "ebelskiver"?
Yes, I know, you said "little danish filled pancake", but in real English, now, "what's an ebelskiver?
2. I gather there's a special pan required to make them, right? Where would one get such a pan? Williams-Sonoma, by any chance?
Those look GREAT!
dad
Have I not shared the myth of the ebelskiver?! According to wikipedia, ebelskivers are "traditional Danish pancakes in a distinctive shape of a sphere. Somewhat similar in texture to American pancakes crossed with a popover, æbleskiver are solid like a pancake but light and fluffy like a popover." It's pronounced able-skeever.
The mythology behind the pan is that the Danes, being poor warriors, returned home from fighting to find their villages burned to the ground and no remaining cooking pots or utensils. Needing to eat, they turned their dented shields over on a fire and made 'pancakes' in the rounded dents.
Yes, I bought the pan at W-S when I worked there, but I imagine you can find them other places, too!
Cool. "ebelskiver, I've found, means "apple slice" in Danish, which probably has something to do with either the shape of the things or the recommended filling. How do you get them round? Turn them? Or, is there a top, like a waffle iron?
dad
Yes, you sort of flip them over. Basically, you ladle a small amount of batter into each hollow of the pan, then spoon in the filling (if you're going to have one), then ladle in another scoop of batter. By that time, the bottom has set sufficiently to roll the whole thing over. The second layer of batter then bakes into the round shape of the hollow. I have two 'official' ebelskiver turners, but I've successfully used bamboo skewers to do the same thing!
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