Lemon Mascarpone Pancakes

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Level: Easy

Serves: 2

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Description

Fantastically fluffy and marvelously moist pancakes. That’s what you get when you add a luxuriously creamy element like mascarpone to your pancake batter. And lemon? Well, lemons are tangy and delicious. This makes for an elegant, perhaps even slightly elevated, variation to the usual Sunday morning pancakes.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE PANCAKES:
  • ½ cups Plus 2 Tablespoons, All-purpose Flour
  • 2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ⅛ teaspoons Salt
  • 2 teaspoons Lemon Zest
  • ½ cups Plus 2 Tablespoons Milk
  • ⅓ cups Mascarpone, Room Temperature
  • 2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil Plus More For Your Griddle
  • 1  Egg, Separated
  • 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
  • FOR THE COMPOTE:
  • 3 Tablespoons Water
  • 1 Tablespoon Granulated Sugar
  • ¼ cups Mixed Berries
  • 1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar

Preparation

For the pancakes:

In a large bowl sift all the dry ingredients together (flour through salt). Add the lemon zest and mix well.

In a separate bowl, add milk, mascarpone, oil, egg yolk and vanilla extract. Whisk together to combine. Add mixture to the dry ingredients mixture, and whisk till mostly combined.

Whisk your egg white in a small bowl until you reach stiff peaks. Add this to the batter, and fold gently to incorporate.

Optional: Allow the batter to sit at room temperature for 20-30 minutes.

Heat a non-stick pan (ideally, a heavy-bottomed one for a more even distribution of heat) over a medium heat and coat it with oil. Use a ¼ cup measure to drop dollops of batter into the pan leaving space between the cakes.

Cook until the bottom is golden brown and there are a few bubbles forming through the top. Flip and repeat. Adjust the heat as necessary. Remove cooked pancakes to a plate and finish cooking the rest of the batter. Serve with the compote.

For the berry compote:

In a small pot, combine water, sugar and mixed berries. Bring the mixture to a slow simmer, occasionally stirring to help break down the berries and reduce the mixture. Add the balsamic vinegar. Stir, and let the compote reduce till desired consistency is achieved.

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