Thin pancakes with milk and thick yeast pancakes are familiar to every Russian person. But in Thailand, such baked goods are prepared differently. All tourists who once visited this eastern country remembered delicious Thai pancakes with banana. The recipe for their preparation is presented in our article. We offer to cook pancakes with different versions of the dough and toppings, including strawberries.
Thai pancakes: cooking features
Thai crepes, or roti, as they are called in Thailand, are a dish with Indian roots. That is what bread cakes are called in India . Bake, or rather, roast roti with different types of filling. But foreign tourists were especially fond of Thai pancakes with banana. Reviews about them are delighted and enthusiastic. Even those who once neglected street food cannot resist the roti, they are so delicious. Well, and as direct evidence of the positive reviews - huge lines in front of every mobile shtakashnik in Thailand.
Thai pancakes are completely different from Russian pancakes. The differences are literally in everything:
- the dough here is pretty steep and incredibly flexible;
- the pancake does not pour into the pan, but is stretched in the hands to the desired size;
- a mandatory component is the filling;
- the shape of the Thai pancake is not round, but square because it is folded in an envelope during cooking;
- roti are not baked, but fried in a pan with hot margarine or palm oil, making them crispy.
Roti Kluai or Thai Banana Pancakes: A Traditional Recipe
In fact, no one knows what the original Thai pancake recipe looks like. In expensive restaurants, the dough for them is prepared on the basis of coconut milk and a special flour mixture, and in Thai street macaroons on wheels it is prepared on the basis of butter and water. It is the second option that is familiar to Russian tourists who, upon arrival home, immediately try to recreate it in their kitchen.
According to the recipe, which is offered in mobile mini-cafes, and prepare Thai pancakes with banana. A step-by-step recipe is as follows:
- Salt and sugar (½ teaspoon each) are added to the butter melted in a water bath. Then flour (400 g) is sieved directly into the oil.
- Gradually, warm water (240 ml) is poured into the dough. The dough is well kneaded for 10 minutes, covered with a film (lid) and set aside for 45 minutes.
- After time, the dough is divided into 14 pieces (pancakes).
- The filling is prepared immediately before frying. To do this, beat 1 egg in a separate bowl and add a sliced banana to it.
- To prepare pancakes, each such piece is thinly rolled out or, rather, stretched by hand. Then the pancake is laid out in a frying pan with heated margarine and first fried on one side for 20 seconds, the filling is poured into the center, the edges are turned in and turned on the other side for 40 seconds or until golden brown.
Ready pancake is spread on a plate with paper, watered with condensed milk or chocolate topping.
Dough for Thai pancakes on green tea
Many Thais use green tea to make dough for roti. It is added to sifted flour with a pinch of salt and sugar (1 tablespoon) flour (450 g). Together with tea (½ tbsp.) 60 ml of warm milk, liquid honey (1 tsp) and olive oil (7 tbsp.) Are added to the dough. The mixed dough should look like a dumpling. It is transferred to a greased bowl and covered with a lid or foil. In this state, and left for 45 minutes.
Rested dough is divided into 16 parts (koloboks). Each ball of dough is thinly rolled out with a greased rolling pin and transferred to a pan with a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Fry a little on one side, then ½ of the sliced banana is poured into the center, wrap the edges to the center (like an envelope), turn over and fry on the other side. Thai pancakes with banana, the recipe of which with green tea is presented above, is served hot, after watering them with condensed milk. From the specified number of ingredients, 16-18 pancakes are obtained.
Thai pancakes with condensed milk and banana
Another recipe for making Thai pancakes. Provided that the diameter of your pan is 30 cm, one roti pancake should be obtained from the indicated amount of ingredients, which is almost the same as in Thailand. If the pan is small in diameter, the dough can be divided into two parts and fry two pancakes.
Pancakes with banana in Thai are prepared from the following test: first from water (½ tbsp.), Condensed milk, melted butter and sugar (1 tbsp each), as well as a pinch of salt, eggs and flour (2 cups of 200 ml each) knead the dough. On the table under the film, it should rest for half an hour, after which it is stretched into a thin, almost transparent pancake. It is laid out in a frying pan with butter, watered on top with condensed milk, wrapped in an envelope and turned over. After this, the pancake is laid out on a paper towel, and then watered again with condensed milk.
Thai Pancakes with Nutella and Banana
Delicious pancakes stuffed with chocolate paste with banana have many admirers, not only in Thailand, but also in Russian cuisine. You can prepare such a dessert from a dough familiar to everyone, and then finished products can be folded with an envelope or tube. The result is delicious Thai banana pancakes.
Their recipe begins with the preparation of a traditional pancake dough from eggs (2 pcs.) Milk and water (½ tbsp. Each), salt and flour (1 tbsp.). Lastly, vegetable oil is added (2 tbsp. Tablespoons). Pancakes are fried in a hot pan in the traditional way, and then, still hot, smeared with Nutella chocolate paste and sprinkled with chopped bananas. You can fold them with an envelope or tube.
A quick recipe for Thai pita pancakes
This recipe is for those who do not have time to wait until the dough ripens, and who do not want to engage in rolling and stretching it. Fast Thai pancakes can be made from thin Armenian pita bread. One such product makes one delicious and crispy pancake with a banana or any other sweet filling.
To begin with, in a separate bowl, you need to combine a beaten egg and a sliced banana. Put a frying pan with oil on the stove, and meanwhile, pour a little milk into a separate bowl and dip lavash in it on both sides. After that, you need to immediately transfer it to a hot pan. Put the prepared filling in the center of the pita, pour with honey or condensed milk, wrap the edges with an envelope and turn to the other side.
Delicious Thai Banana Pancakes with Coconut Milk
In Thai restaurants, pancake dough is prepared on the basis of coconut milk and water (200 ml each). The liquid is poured into a mixture of flour (550 g) and salt (pinch) and the dough is kneaded like on dumplings. After about an hour, it is divided into small koloboks the size of two tennis balls, stretched very thinly with your hands and laid out on a hot frying pan with oil. Coconut milk makes the dough very elastic, so the pancakes stretch well and do not tear.
The filling is used traditional - banana. Many tourists note that this is the most delicious Thai pancake pancake recipe. Do not forget to cook them in your kitchen.
What is the Thai Cuisine Guide for Pancake Recipe?
All lovers of Thai cuisine have long been familiar with the Internet portal "Guide to Thai cuisine. Photos - recipes." Here you can find any recipes for this country: from first courses to desserts.
Thai pancakes " Thai cuisine guide " offers to cook according to the following recipe:
- In a deep bowl combine flour (1 tbsp.), Salt and sugar (1 tsp).
- Milk (1 tbsp. Spoon), water (4 tbsp. Tablespoons) and half of a beaten egg are poured into a depression made in a flour mixture.
- A spoonful of vegetable oil is added and the dough is kneaded. Before rolling, it should lie on the table for about 2 hours.
- All dough must be divided into 3-4 kolobok (depends on the size of the pan). Roll out the dough as finely as possible, put the pancake on the pan, put the sliced banana in the center and wrap the edges of the product.
- Turning to the other side, do not forget to grease the top of the product with butter.
- Serve hot with condensed milk, honey or chocolate topping.
Thai pancakes with banana and coconut
Delicious banana pancakes prepared according to this recipe, after frying, are breaded in coconut. Thanks to this, they turn out even more delicious and crispy.
From the dough based on water, milk and flour, presented in the previous recipe, the dough is kneaded. It is covered with a film or a lid and left on the table for a couple of hours. Then the dough is divided into balls, the size of a plum. From these ingredients are obtained small Thai pancakes with banana. The recipe for frying them is to brown each product on both sides, and then they are rolled up hot by a tube, not forgetting to add a filling to each. Then the pancakes are greased with butter and breaded in coconut. After that, they need to be sent to the oven for 3 minutes and baked at 180 degrees.
Thai pancakes with strawberries
The most common filling for pancakes in Thailand are bananas: with honey, condensed milk or chocolate paste. But in some of the macau ladies, tourists are also offered to try pancakes with strawberries, cherries and other berries and fruits.
To prepare the dough in a separate bowl, you need to combine the beaten egg with water (120 ml), sugar and condensed milk (2 teaspoons each). Add a pinch of salt and a little butter, mix well. Meanwhile, in another bowl, make a deepening in the hill of sifted flour (400 ml cup) and pour the egg mass into it. Knead the dough and leave it on the table for half an hour to lie down.
Then form 2 round balls from the dough. Each of them is rolled out as thinly as possible, transferred to a baking sheet, added to the center of chopped strawberries and honey and wrapped in an envelope. When serving, cut into equal squares and pour sour cream.