Week 36 - Stacked

I couldn't figure out what to make for the stacked challenge, so I asked A for some ideas. He immediately said a short stack of pancakes. I don't really make regular pancakes (like the breakfast kind), and it was going to be for dinner, so I decided to make zucchini pancakes, following an Ina Garten recipe.

The ingredients we used were:

- 1 lb zucchini, grated

- 1/2 large onion, grated

- 2 eggs, beaten

- 7 tbsp flour

- 1 tsp baking powder

- onion salt

- freshly ground black pepper 

- butter

(Again, cheese in picture but did not use...)

The steps for making the stacked zucchini pancakes were:

1. Prep: grate zucchini and onion, beat eggs.
2. Stir onion and eggs into zucchini.
3. Add flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper, and stir well. (Initially added less flour but seemed too thin, so recipe said to add more.)
4. Melt some butter in a large sauce pan and once melted lower heat to medium/medium low.
5. Add batter to pan in scoops of about 1/4 cup.
6. Cook pancakes on each side until browned. (Recipe said 2 minutes per side but it took much, much longer than that. Unfortunately did not time it.)
7. Continue frying pancakes in batches until they're all done.
8. Stack the pancakes and eat!

I don't know why, but in my head, I had this idea that these would come out soft and fluffy like regular pancakes but made with lots of zucchini. That wasn't the texture at all, but I don't know why I thought it would be. They were more like pan-fried potato pancakes, very soft. As far as taste, they were good, but I thought they would have more flavor. Frying them all up took a while too, so I'm not sure if I would do this again.