Dylan McGrath serves up a skills challenge to the eight Celebrity MasterChef Ireland contestants with this old favourite
Ingredients
- pancakes:
- 125 g plain flour
- 2 large eggs
- 300 ml milk (or 200ml milk & 100ml water)
- 15 g/1 tbs caster sugar
- pinch of salt
- 15 g/1 tbs melted butter (optional)
- zest of 1 orange (optional)
- sauce:
- 150 ml orange juice (juice of 3)
- zest of 1 orange (optional)
- 50 g butter
- 50 g caster sugar
- 50 ml grand marnier
Method
- Put flour, caster sugar and pinch of salt in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and crack in the eggs.
- Whisk the eggs, adding the milk gradually drawing in the flour from the edge of the bowl.
- Whisk thoroughly until a smooth batter the consistency of single cream. Add in the melted butter and orange zest, if using.
- Melt the butter and sugar together in a pan. Add the orange juice and zest (if using) and Grand Marnier and simmer until syrupy. Reheat the folded pancakes in the sauce and flambé with an extra tablespoon/15ml of Grand Marnier. Alternatively, arrange the pancakes folded in quarters on a plate and pour over the sauce and flambé as above
Notes
Equipment needed: crepe pan, whisk, mixing bowl, table spoons, orange zester, weighing scales
