Brown Butter Buttermilk Pancakes with Mandarin Curd
 
 
Tender, brown butter buttermilk pancakes with the most delicious citrus curd of all time, mandarin curd.
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • For the Mandarin Curd:
  • ½ cup (110g) sugar
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch (cornflour)
  • 1 whole egg + 2 egg yolks
  • Zest of 1 mandarin
  • ½ cup (125ml) mandarin juice (from approximately 3 mandarins)
  • 5 tbsp (75g) butter, cubed
  • For the pancakes:
  • 2 tbsp (30g) butter
  • 1 + ¼ cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • butter, extra, for cooking
  • raspberries, to serve
Instructions
  1. To make the mandarin curd, place the sugar, cornflour and eggs into a medium-sized saucepan and whisk to combine.
  2. Add the zest and juice and whisk again, and then place over a medium heat. Bring up to a gentle boil, whisking as you go, and then boil for about a minute. Remove the curd from the heat, and whisk in the cubed butter. When the butter is all melted and incorporated, scrape the curd out into a bowl or jar, and place in the fridge to chill completely. If kept in a sterilised jar, the curd should keep for at least a week in the fridge.
  3. To make the pancakes, place the butter into a small pan and place over a medium heat. Cook for about 3-4 minutes, or until the butter foams and takes on a caramel brown colour. Set aside to cool slightly.
  4. Place the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a large mixing bowl and whisk together. Add the eggs to the bowl, and begin whisking, slowly adding the buttermilk as you go. Finally, whisk in the slightly cooled brown butter.
  5. Heat a large non-stick pan or griddle over a medium-low heat, and add about ½ a teaspoon of butter. When the butter is foaming, add a few rounded tablespoons of batter to the pan at a time. The pancakes need about 2 minutes on the first side, or until the edges look set and bubbles appear, and a further 1 minute on the second side.
  6. When all the pancakes are cooked, serve with chilled mandarin curd and a pile of ruby-red raspberries! Then start planning a holiday.
Recipe by The Sugar Hit at http://www.thesugarhit.com/2014/07/brown-butter-buttermilk-pancakes-mandarin-curd-recipe.html