Dutch Oven Lemon Pancake
What does a perfect Sunday morning look like? Sharing some coffee and a lovely pancake straight from the Dutch oven with my wife.
This morning, I made a lovely breakfast. My wife recently found this recipe 
for a lemon pancake made Dutch oven style. And since I’ve been loving my Dutch oven so much recently, I thought I’d try it for a nice Sunday morning breakfast. And pancakes and coffee are the best Sunday morning breakfast!
I rewrote that recipe, because food bloggers always have this annoying habit of putting all this bullshit fluff talk in the recipe. I mean, it’s alright to do that in the blog post, but keep the recipe clean and readable at a glance, for fuck’s sake! That is why you have a separate recipe section. Anyway, here it is. Worked like a charm the first time I tried it:
Ingredients
- A lemon
- 3 eggs
- 160ml of milk
- Butter
- 75g of flour
From Permanent Stocks
This is stuff you should already have in the house. But check anyway.
- Sugar
- Icing sugar
- Salt
Notes
Use a Dutch oven lid or cast iron pan to cook the pancake in the oven. I use this Dutch oven from Petromax.
Directions
- Put your Dutch oven lid in the oven on a middle rung and pre-heat at 220°C with upper and lower heat (no fan)
- Remove zests from the lemon and mix thoroughly with one table spoon of sugar
- Cut lemon in half and squeeze the juice from one half of the lemon; collect it
- Cut the other half of the lemon into thin slices
When the oven is at temperature:
- Mix eggs, flour, a pinch of salt, the sugar mix, the milk and most of the lemon juice with an electric blender or by hand with a whisk (the resulting dough should be pretty thin and liquid)
- Pull the pan from the oven and put a tablespoon of butter into it; let it melt
- Pour the dough in and put the pan back into the oven
- Leave the pancake in the oven for 15-18 minutes
- Take the pan out, pour the rest of the lemon juice over the pancake and garnish it with icing sugar and the lemon slices
This is what it should look like when you’re done:
It was pretty easy and quick. Which is an absolute prerequisite when I cook before breakfast in the mornings. Had a coffee while I was making the pancake and another while we were sharing it at the table. I added some maple syrup, but it’s pretty sweet as it is out of the pan. Also a bit sour at the same time. An absolutely lovely Sunday morning experience!
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