BOÛKÈTES

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

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HALAL
This recipe is carefully made with halal ingredients.

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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PUBLISHED BY
Thierry Hanan Scheers
With a backpack  and hiking boots Thierrry Hanan travels around the world. Final destination? Somewhere, nowhere and everywhere.
Backpacker & Storyteller

PICTURE BY
​​Lucyin

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