Dutch Baby Pancakes w/Eggs & Chorizo
Submitted by KCJ on Monday, 27 July 2009One Comment
This is one of our family’s favorites! Breakfast for dinner is always a fun twist that kids love, but sometimes it’s hard to find a compromise between adult and kid-friendly breakfast food flavors. Here’s a recipe that both adults and kids enjoy in our family. In fact enjoy is not a strong enough word. We devour these…
Here’s the recipe from the Eating Out Loud blog. One thing we do a little differently to help everyone eat well is scramble the eggs and add the chorizo to the scrambled eggs. And we keep the Dutch babies separate from the eggs and chorizo. Same foods and flavors, different presentation. I’ll check back in tonight and let you know how it turned out.
We know, we know, this dinner is a bit of an indulgence (we had salads for lunch knowing that this was on the horizon). We were a little aghast when we discovered that we’d used almost 2 dozen eggs in the preparation of this meal. But with a family of six, there is no way one batch of the Dutch babies will satisfy, so I actually quadrupled it–and we did have leftovers for the morning. I have found that you can double the recipe and put it in a 9 x 13 Pyrex dish in the oven–it isn’t as beautiful as if cooked in a skillet, but you can easily cook two of these dishes side by side, and it still puffs to impressive heights. By the way, a pizza cutter cuts the Dutch babies nicely.
I started cooking these when I was desperately trying to get as much protein into my vegetarian toddler’s diet as possible and found that she loved to watch these “grow” in the oven and devour these eggy pancakes, drizzled with maple syrup. For more adult tastes, make a syrup of lemon juice and butter and then top with a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar. Pure heaven.
We scramble the eggs with the cooked chorizo, and this dish offers the perfect counterpoint to the sweetness of the Dutch baby. We served our breakfast for dinner with orange juice but agreed that a nice medley of fruit would have rounded the meal out–and would have made us feel less guilty about its decadence:)
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