Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling

This is a gluten free vegetarian breakfast filled with the goodness of Iron rich spinach and protein packed paneer cubes

Garima Gautam
Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling
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Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling is a gluten free vegetarian breakfast filled with the goodness of nutrients. You can even have this as an evening snack or make it breakfast. This is sure to become your absolute favourite guilt free breakfast. This savoury pancake recipe is made with spiced besan as the main ingredient that is flavoured by red chilli powder, green chillies, onions, golden turmeric and garam masala. Once the pancakes are made, these are filled with sauteed spicy paneer and blanched spinach and folded for a wholesome breakfast experience. You can serve Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling with Homemade Fresh Orange Juice Recipe.

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Cuisine: Continental
Course: World Breakfast
Diet: Vegetarian
Prep in

15 M

Cooks in

20 M

Total in

35 M

Makes:

2 Servings

Ingredients

    For Filling:
  • 1 Cup Baby spinach , tore and blanched
  • 1 Cup Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese) , cubed
  • 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
  • 1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
  • 1 teaspoon Garlic , minced
  • 2 Green Chillies , finely chopped
  • Mustard oil , to drizzle
  • Salt , to taste
  • For Pancake Batter:
  • 1 Cup Gram flour (besan)
  • 2 Green Chillies , finely chopped
  • 1 Onion , finely chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Garam masala powder
  • 1/2 Mustard oil
  • Salt , to taste
  • Water , as required for batter

How to make Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling

  1. To begin making Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling, prep all the ingredients first, Blanch the spinach leaves in hot water and a bit of salt for a couple of minutes.

  2. Now in order to make the filling, first heat up some mustard oil in a pan/skillet and then add cumin seeds into it. Once the cumin seeds start crackling, then add chopped green chillies and minced garlic into it and cook for 1 minute or till the garlic is cooked.

  3. Next, add the cubed paneer pieces into the pan & cook till they turn slightly golden. Now add the powdered spices into the pan and mix everything well. Cook for 3-4 minutes, till the paneer cubes, gets properly coated with spices.

  4. In the end, add the blanched spinach leaves & salt into the pan and give it a good stir. Let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes again.Turn off the gas and keep this aside.

  5. Now in order to make the pancakes, put everything in the bowl apart from water & oil and give it a good stir. Now add 1/2 teaspoon of oil and mix again.

  6. Start adding water into the pancake batter and make sure it is not becoming very thick or thin.Once you achieve the perfect consistency, whisk it well.

  7. Next heat up a skillet/pan and add a few drops of oil. Tilt the pan to properly coat it with oil.Once the oil is heated enough pour the batter into the pan using a ladle and make sure that whole pan is covered with batter. Filip it after a while in order to cook from both sides. Repeat making pancakes to complete the batter.

  8. Once pancakes are ready then lay them flat in a plate and use paneer & spinach as a filling. Fold the pancakes from the middle after filling it. 

  9. You can serve Savoury Pancakes Recipe With Spinach & Paneer Filling with Homemade Fresh Orange Juice Recipe