Norwegian Pancakes

Norwegian Pancakes

Our friends, Aaron and Julia, had us over for breakfast one morning, and they served us Norwegian Pancakes. Today, I decided to give it a try.

Ingredients:

1 egg

1 cup of milk

1/2 cup of flour

1/2 teaspoon of salt

Also needed: sugar, a stick of butter, and/or Nutella if you're lucky.

Warm up a a medium-sized skillet over medium heat.

Using either a blender or a mixer (I use a hand-held mixer), mix egg, milk, flour and salt. Blend until the mixture is well-blended.

Take the stick of butter (still in its wrapper) and unwrap one end of the stick, so part of the butter is exposed and you can still comfortably hold the covered end in your hand. Rub the bottom of the pan with the butter (if the butter browns immediately, that's okay). Pour 1/4 cup of the batter onto the pan, and immediately move the pan around so the batter is evenly covering the bottom. You want these to be as thin as possible. Let the pancake cook until the edges get a little crispy and the bottom side has browned a bit. Flip the pancake over and while the other side cooks, take the butter again and rub it all over the cooked side. (The first pancake I made didn't flip very well--but once the pan was hot and buttery enough, you should be able to flip the pancakes quite easily.) When you think the second side is finishing cooking, slide the pancake onto a plate.

Sprinkle the buttered side with sugar (the more, the better of course), roll the pancake up, and enjoy!

Repeat process with each pancake.

And of course, if you have Nutella, that would be really yummy too. And as a tip, it really is easiest to rub the butter directly onto the pancake when it's still hot--the pancakes are too thin to have butter spread onto them as though buttering a piece of bread.

These are quick and easy to make (and cheap). The cook does have to make them one by one, so mama might not be able to sit down right away, since these need to be eaten immediately after they slide off the pan.