Tunnpannkaka

The Swedish answer to crepes!

Tunn meaning flat, and pannkaka meaning (wait for it) pancakes, tunnpannkaka are thin, unleavened, breakfast treats that I've been eating since childhood and cooking nearly as long. They are tasty and simple, although there's a bit of skill to be gained in the pour. You will see what I mean.

Step 1: Recipe

The entire ingredient list is this:

4 eggs
2-1/2 cups milk
1-1/2 cups flour
cooking oil

Beat the eggs, beat in the milk, beat in the flour. You should have a fairly thin batter, a bit thicker than whipping cream, without many lumps (but some lumps are OK).

That is all. Now the fun part!

Comments

[Mumfi]

My recipe is as follows: 1 egg, 1dl milk 1dl flour. (one of each, easy to remember) Stir with a fork, the egg last. Add one dl extra of milk, stir with the fork. Done. One should stir the mix not batter. You don't want any air in it. And use butter! Put some in the pan between every other pannkaka and it usually is all right. The thing is to use a thick cast iron pan. If you use butter oil you may put some in the mix also.

[rachel]

 Exactly the recipe I almost started typing in myself in a comment. :-)

I'd put in a hefty chunk of butter (2tbsp / 1/4 cup or so) to lube up the pan and the butter - pouring the overflow butter into the batter, stirring it in swiftly. This way, the batter carries some of the lubrication in it.

And definitely cast iron.

[Eric95]

Haha, these are just normal swedish pancakes. We usually just call them "Pannkakor". Oh, and tunn means thin, not flat.

[mackamitsu]

I know them as Finn pancakes. They are absolutely delicious with strawberry jam and bananas, or blueberry preserves. The all time best though is to eat them smothered in real Maple syrup. This is one of the foods that should be on everybody's must eat before you die list.

[spicy_puppy]

I have learned (not hard) to flip them in the air. it´s really easy whith a teflon pan and butter. you should try it , it adds a new dimension to making the pannkakor.

[scoochmaroo]

Haha. Kaka.

[MizzMouse]

thank you for the recipe!! I busted out a batch of these and filled them with banana! so tasty!

[Goodhart]

This sounds pretty good.

One note: you mention Olive oil, and although I don't think the taste of the oil would be a problem, olive oil will smoke excessively at the temperatures you are cooking at. It really is not a good frying oil.

[hammerhead]

We Swedes call it tunnpannkaka, or just pannkaka. I don't know if it's typically Swedish but we also have a variant that's smaller and prepared in a special pan, a "plättlagg" where you can prepare 7 "plättar" at a time.

[rachel]

Oh, I have been spelling it wrong all these years! I am only a quarter Swedish and do not really have any contact with my Swedish great-relatives so I clearly don't really know. I'll go change now from "Tunpancaca" to "Tunnpannkaka".

[TechnoGeek95]

That looks really good! I going to try to make this tomorrow.