Okay, so the name isn’t great, but it was all I could think of. I spoke with Toni and for the life of us, we couldn’t come up with a technical category for this dish. The good part is that it can be made quite easily, in both sweet and savory varieties. The one in the picture is savory.
I was baking bread a few days back and through a silly mistake, ruined one batch. It just didn’t rise properly and could only have been used for a homemade relative of melba toast. So, the whole loaf was popped into the blender where it came out as clumpy and soft breadcrumbs. After an introduction to some fine eggs, a little milk, a pinch of baking soda and some seasoning, it was poured into a non-stick pan. While the bottom was cooking, the top was embedded with de-seeded, sliced olives, after which the whole thing was flipped over. When cooked on the olive side too, it was flipped back into a plate and a little tomato ketchup squeezed into each olive slice.
Looks pretty doesn’t it?
For the sweet version substitute salt with castor sugar, slice de-seeded cherries instead of olives and use apple jelly instead of tomato ketchup.
- Sid
Ah, so that’s what you made! I like the look and the idea of it but think that I would use red bell pepper in the olives. We have jars of small pickled ones that I think would add another dimension to the taste. Can you get olives stuffed with peppers, almonds or garlic there?
@Toni: Yes, that’s a great idea. We do get olives stuffed with pimento peppers, garlic and almonds.
Nice it looks very appetizing…how I wish I can make stuff like this at home but can’t use eggs!!! I think the best knack involved in cooking is when it’s not planned and you can just come up with bits and pieces from nothing!!!
So here is a tip to make this pancake even tastier…substitute milk with cream if not calorie conscious.
Use spices like black pepper and pink peppercorns in the batter itself and that fiery taste will blend very well with the sweetness of the bread or use healthy stuff like flaxseeds to give it a crunch! and serve with a sort of cheese fondue(melted cheese with cream/milk)…And for sweet add in some citrus zest may be oranges, instead of olives use hydrated figs and serve with some nice orange cinnamon sauce!!!
God now i am craving one!!!
@Kishi: Damn, that sounds good! Got to do it again, soon.
Interesting idea. Great ways to reinvent what you had and also create something new out of it!
You would have to feed this to me blind folded so that I could have a total taste experience, sounds good, but I cannot visualize it from the photo really…
@ChefE: Thanks. It was about a centimetre thick, round and the surface was like in the photo. Quite similar to a pizza base in shape.