BOÛKÈTES

Recipe - Pancakes based on buckwheat flour, cinnamon and rum. Very typical of Liège. These pancakes are very easy to make and super tasty.

Culinary location? Belgium (Liège)

Recipe for the boûkètes

Ingredients

(for 10 to 15 boûkètes)
- 200 g buckwheat flour.
- 20 g baker's yeast.
- 5 eggs.
- 50 ml milk.
- 25 g melted butter.
- 1 pinch of cinnamon.
- 5 cl rum.
- 1 teaspoon of fine granulated sugar.
- 50 g raisins.
- 10 cl peanut oil.
- Blonde cassonade sugar.
- Salt

Preparation

- Separate egg whites from egg yolks.
- Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt.
- Slightly heat the milk. Fill a cup with warm milk and mix with the crumbled yeast.
- Pour the flour into a large bowl. Make a hole in the middle and add gradually while kneading the dough with the fingertips, the dissolved yeast, the remaining milk, the melted butter and the sugar. Mix well.
- Then add a pinch of salt, the egg yolks, the rum and the cinnamon.
- When the preparation is well homogeneous, add the whisked egg whites and the raisins.
- Cover the bowl and rest the dough near a heat source for 4 hours. It must double in volume.
- Then bake the boûkètes in an oil-greased pancake pan.
- Eat with brown or white sugar.

Enjoy your food.

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​Thierry Hanan Scheers

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