Pancake day is celebrated exactly 47 days before Easter. A pancake is a thin, flat cake, made of batter and fried in a frying pan. A traditional English pancake is very thin and is served immediately.Experts at BBC Good Food, the UK’s number one food media brand, are predicting the pancake grazing platter as the biggest trend for Pancake Day next week (Tuesday 1 March), saying the chance to get together and share a celebratory meal after last year’s lockdowns and disrupted Christmas and New Year plans is too good to miss.
Pancake Day sees the biggest day of the year for traffic to bbcgoodfood.com; in 2021 the site had 8.1 million page impressions, the highest than Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The trend for grazing platters, or sharing boards, shows no sign of going away, online searches for “grazing board” and “grazing platter” have risen by over 130% over the last two years, 5000% over the last five years. Chef Jomon, Chef de Cuisine at The Lalit, London says that Pancake Day is all about the Crispy Dosa ( a savoury rice pancake ). In Kerala, pancakes are called appams. Most of them are made from fermented batter.
Dosas are crispy, savoury pancakes that are a staple food in South India. Dosas are made from soaked and drained rice, fenugreek seeds, and urad daal, also known as black lentils. Blended in a food processor and combined with water, the mixture makes a thin batter that ferments until flavourful.
Chef Jomon has a new Masala Dosa, which according to him, is the British Variant. He calls it Activated Charcoal infused Masala Dosa and Tomato Cashew Chutney. - “A deconstructive approach".Pic courtesy Sekhar Abraham
Pancake Day sees the biggest day of the year for traffic to bbcgoodfood.com; in 2021 the site had 8.1 million page impressions, the highest than Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The trend for grazing platters, or sharing boards, shows no sign of going away, online searches for “grazing board” and “grazing platter” have risen by over 130% over the last two years, 5000% over the last five years. Chef Jomon, Chef de Cuisine at The Lalit, London says that Pancake Day is all about the Crispy Dosa ( a savoury rice pancake ). In Kerala, pancakes are called appams. Most of them are made from fermented batter.
Dosas are crispy, savoury pancakes that are a staple food in South India. Dosas are made from soaked and drained rice, fenugreek seeds, and urad daal, also known as black lentils. Blended in a food processor and combined with water, the mixture makes a thin batter that ferments until flavourful.
Chef Jomon has a new Masala Dosa, which according to him, is the British Variant. He calls it Activated Charcoal infused Masala Dosa and Tomato Cashew Chutney. - “A deconstructive approach".Pic courtesy Sekhar Abraham
