Almost Turkish Recipes

Savory Cornmeal Pancakes (Mısır Unlu Kaşık Dökmesi)

 






I love corn in any form and these cornmeal savory pancakes are one of my favorite brunch or lunch specials.

2 cups of cornmeal / corn flour

2 eggs

1/2 cup yogurt

1 cup milk

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup olive oil

1 tsp salt

1/4 finely chopped herbs: parsley, dill, mint, or chives, pick one. 

1/2 cup hard to melt cheese such as crumbled feta, small diced halloumi, or Turkish tulum goat cheese   (I use a mix of Syrian halloumi and Turkish tulum goat cheese) 

1/2 pitted and chopped black olives 

-Whisk eggs, milk, oil, and yogurt. 
-Add cornmeal, baking powder, salt and mix.
-Add cheese, herbs, and olives and fold into the batter.
-Heat a nonstick pan over medium, slightly grease the pan and drop pancake batter with a spoon. These are similar to old-fashion pancakes, a bit thick. Cook for ~1-2 minutes, check bottom and flip. Cook for another minute. 
-Serve with butter or some sort of spreadable cheese on top because there's no such thing as too much cheese. 


8 comments:

  1. Pancakes look delicious.

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  2. How gorgeous are those? I'd love to wake up to some cornmeal pancakes!

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  3. Awesome. I love cornmeal too. And your recipe made the best cornmeal pancakes I ever tasted. Thanks for the lovely recipe. Bookmarked this.

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  4. I don't have the feta or halloumi cheese on hand. So going with whatever I have in the fridge. Hopefully, it will taste as good. Next time I go grocery shopping I will buy them for the authentic recipe.

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  5. This turned out great for me! It was a great way to use up some fresh herbs, I had a bit more parsley then I would have used otherwise.
    I think savory pancakes are a little underrated in the United States.

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  6. Anonymous12:17 PM

    When you said 1/2 yogurt did you mean half cup?

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  7. Anonymous12:11 PM

    Hi do you use yellow corn meal ? And how fine ? Ty

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